With the small-circle election for chief executive just a month away, some pro-democracy members of the Election Committee have vowed to make the election as competitive as possible by nominating two ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-17
... ital. The promising socio-economic profiles of Southeast Asian countries is likely to attract a sizeable amount of foreign investment. Respectable economic growth is expected for Malaysia, Indonesia a ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-16
... from the pro-establishment camp. A message posted on the group's Facebook’s page by a certain Miso Cheng said it was very disappointing – and disgusting – "that your administrator representing Schick ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-16
Police Commissioner Stephen Lo Wai-chung expressed sadness over a court's decision convicting seven police officers of beating up pro-democracy activist Ken Tsang during a protest in 2014. “I can rela ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-16
The saga surrounding the beating of pro-democracy protester Ken Tsang by the police during the 2014 Occupy movement finally drew to an end as the seven police officers involved were convicted of assau ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-16
... from the pro-establishment camp. During the meeting, Zhang reportedly said the politburo had made a unanimous decision to support former chief secretary Carrie Lam for chief executive. However, Zhang ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-16
... emocratic Progressive Party (DPP), which wants to put more distance between Taiwan and the mainland. In economy also, it is encouraging businesses to invest in and trade with countries in southeast an ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-16
... from the pro-democracy camp to the Beijing loyalists must admit that Hong Kong has suffered from intense social divisions. Many blame Leung Chun-ying's arrogant and confrontational approach for the i ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-15
Seven policemen convicted of assault on pro-democracy activist Ken Tsang face sentencing on Friday. They are Chief Inspector Wong Cho-sing, Senior Inspector Lau Cheuk-ngai, Sergeant Pak Wing-bun and p ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-15
... far, the pro-democracy members of the Election Committee, the so-called “300+”, have remained unchanged over their strategy: they are going to endorse both Woo and Tsang and make them official candid ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-15
Today is the start of the two-week nomination process for next month's chief executive election, and already, it is looking like Carrie Lam's to lose. Judging from her early support, Lam leads the rac ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-14
... niversity professor, was already jailed for spreading counter-revolutionary thoughts. “But the Chinese Communist Party today, in my view, is a synonym for reform,” Li told a recent local forum hosted ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-14
The District Court on Tuesday found seven police officers guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm for attacking a pro-democracy activist during a protest in October 2014. However, the seven w ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-14
... longjiang province. However, rather than addressing their demand, the mainland authorities used their petition as a pretext to mount an all-out crackdown on dissent from July 9 2015. Within two months ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-13
... while the pro-establishment camp has largely shrugged him off, Long Hair's bid has had mixed response from among the pro-democracy camp to which he belongs, because many pan-democrats are puzzled by h ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-13
Thousands of protesters in more than a dozen Mexican cities took to the streets on Sunday to express their fierce opposition to US President Donald Trump, portraying the new leader as a menace to both ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-13
... en Square pro-democracy movement that was crushed by the army in 1989, was jailed for 11 years in 2009 on subversion charges for organizing a petition urging an end to the country’s one-party rule. He ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-10
While most of Hong Kong’s mainstream media reported Zhang Dejiang's recent visit to Shenzhen to meet the city's elites regarding the chief executive election, Beijing mouthpieces didn't give much prom ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-09
... sents the pro-democracy camp, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. The announcement from the League of Social Democrats stalwart sent shock waves through the political circles, especially among the ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-09
