Student leader Joshua Wong Chi-fung was denied entry to Thailand and detained for ten hours at the Bangkok international airport recently before being repatriated back to Hong Kong. Thai authorities r ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-24
... Inspector Wong Cho-sing; Senior Inspector Lau Cheuk-ngai; Sergeant Pak Wing-bun; and police constables Lau Hing-pui and Wong Wai-ho have been charged with “causing grievous bodily harm with intent”. O ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-21
Former legislator Wong Yuk-man was convicted on Wednesday of common assault for throwing a glass at Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying during a Legco session in July 2014. Sentencing has been set for Oct ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-20
... Inspector Wong Cho-sing; Senior Inspector Lau Cheuk-ngai; Sergeant Pak Wing-bun; and police constables Lau Hing-pui, Wong Wai-ho, Kwan Ka-ho and Chan Siu-tan – have been charged with “causing grievous ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-20
Last Wednesday, at the Legco chamber, the swearing-in ceremony of newly elected lawmakers and the election of the new Legco president -- the two formalities that need to be settled whenever Legco star ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-20
... g mad dog Wong Yuk-man out of the chamber. Her localist platform includes exploring offshore natural gas fields in the South China Sea when Hong Kong "becomes independent one day". It will then be ent ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-19
On Monday afternoon, a 47-year-old man surnamed Wong took the 238X bus from Cheung Sha Wan to Tsim Sha Tsui. He took a seat beside the window on the upper deck. In Yau Ma Tei, three men boarded the bu ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-19
... makers -- Wong Ting-kwong and Edward Yiu -- were sworn in smoothly, RTHK reports. That left Youngspiration's Sixtus Leung and Yau Wai-ching and Democracy Groundwork's Lau Siu-lai yet to be sworn in. A ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-19
It appears Leung Chun-ying is set to seek a second term, which will boost the turnout of the Jan. 1 protest next year. The protest is also likely to provide a platform for the anti-Leung faction in th ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-19
... dee Fonia Wong Yeung-fong, who said she bought a three-bedroom unit in Tseung Kwan O for HK$2.31 million back in 2003. Today that same price is only good for a parking space. It's all a question of de ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-17
... overnment Wong Ting-kwong, who omitted “Hong Kong” in his oath, will also be sworn in again next week. Ivan Choy, a senior lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, suggested that the governmen ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-14
... ist Wyman Wong said he has received a video of Trump and Clinton singing his own Rashōmon, which he would consider playing at a concert with the two performing. His Facebook post went viral and became ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-13
In June I wrote an article on the chances of winning of three CE hopefuls: Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah. Four ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-13
Sterling weakened below 1.23 against US dollar on Tuesday on concerns of economic shock from Britain's decision to leave the European Union. The pound trade-weighted index slumped to an eight-year low ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-12
... k mad dog Wong Yuk Man is gone and Legco is now peaceful? Think again. Mad dog gave way to a group of localists who made it clear in a banner and in their attire that “Hong Kong is not China”. Even Ta ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-12
... ive Gilly Wong Fung-han said the watchdog has so far received around 160 complaints relating to the handset model. Wong expects the number of complaints will go up, adding that Samsung's release of in ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-12
... ears ago, Wong Yuk-man drowned out some words (People's Republic of China, for instance) in his oath with a cough to dramatize his opposition to Beijing. He did a retake of the oath and all was well a ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-12
... 2017 but Wong Shek-hung, Oxfam Hong Kong program manager, said that is still lower than the allowance from the government’s Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) scheme. He said HK$35 an ho ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-12
... sman Bill Wong Cho-bau, public broadcaster RTHK reports. Digital Broadcasting Corp. (DBC), in which Wong was a major investor, was applying for a digital radio license at the time. At a pre-trial revi ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-12
