Youngsters with stars in their eyes are often easy prey for firms claiming to be talent spotters and expert groomers for careers in showbiz. While there are indeed some genuine star-making enterprise ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-10
... a rising star in China’s shipping industry. Before being promoted to senior management in COSCO Group, he had been vice chairman of COSCO Pacific Ltd. (01199.HK), the container terminal unit of China ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-10
... m the All-Star break. But it's hard for a baseball watcher like me not to be over-excited, half a world away in Hong Kong, at the prospect of a 20-year trophy drought ending. I know the team's reputat ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-09
Chief Executive CY Leung is clearly running out of options to fill top public service posts, so much so that he seems to be throwing out the government's unofficial handbook, Sun Tzu's Art of War. The ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-09
... luding TV star Yang Mi who oppose the wholesale killing of the animal for the event, China National Radio reported Sunday. Animal rights groups accused participants of using brutal techniques such as ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-09
... political star in Hong Kong and the moderate democrat whispered by some as on track for higher office, said Christine lived next door to his Paris university dorm room. "[She] studied arts in Paris an ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-04
An alleged gunman who is believed to have killed himself in a standoff with police at the Kai Ching housing estate Sunday morning was the father of starlet Liddy Li, a woman at the center of a scandal ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-03
... and Super Star Group restaurants. The dumplings available at Wing Wah and Taipan had the highest energy content of the four brands, coming in at 311 kilo calories per 100 grams, according to the nutri ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-30
... r or five-star hotels. But among business associates and wealthy families, the largesse can be as much as a red packet will fit, if the gift is not too big to stuff in it (like a car, or an apartment ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
A Hong Kong woman has made a 40 million South Korean won (HK$303,000) bid for attention from K-pop star and actor Kim Soo-hyun, taking out a full-page ad in national daily The Chosun Ilbo to wish him ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
... Bauhinia Star in 2004 and the city's highest official honor, the Grand Bauhinia Medal, in 2011 for significant contributions to society. And, in 2008, he made the city his official home, relinquishin ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-26
... to tennis star Caroline Wozniacki is off and the wedding kaput, he framed the announcement in the context of his sport. "I'm not going to lie," the two-time Major winner told reporters on the sideline ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-22
... from the Star' have cemented the market leading position of Korean drama series. As Samsung had the budget to appoint actors Jun Ji-hyun and Kim Soo-hyun as its latest top-tier smartphone Galaxy S5 s ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-22
... chance to star in a documentary – is on tap for the inmates. The creature comforts apparently have a big impact on life expectancy – wild pandas are thought to live until about 20 years of age while t ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
There is one curious way Taiwanese pop star Bobby Chen is regarded in China -- his singing is mild and gentle but his views are extreme. That is no comfort to his hordes of fans in the mainland who co ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-15
It's not the amount of compensation being sought, but the reputation of the celebrity that is at stake here. A Beijing resident has filed a suit against former NBA star Yao Ming for endorsing a health ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-15
Tongue-tied Starry Lee Wai-king raised a few chuckles among listeners to RTHK's “Letter to Hong Kong” program Sunday -- almost as many as legislator Gary Chan Hak-kan managed in 2008 with his notoriou ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-14
... -language Star China channels previously run by News Corp., as well as Fortune Star, the world's largest Chinese film library. Last year, it also bought a major stake in news website Caixin Media, the ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-13
It's not an "ultimate weapon" like the Death Star from the Star Wars movie franchise, but the giant oil rig that China has parked just 140 miles away from Hanoi, is equally as ominous. Much as the Gal ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-13
... n its all-star board, whose members include financial heavyweights such as Ronald Arculli and former Goldman Sachs banker Frederick Hu Zuliu, to figure out how it will pay for a HK$1 billion privatiza ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12
