Renewed demand from Chinese buyers looking for offshore assets is helping drive sales at Wheelock Properties (Hong Kong) Ltd. Managing director Ricky Wong said mainland buyers of Wheelock’s mass-marke ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-06
Recently, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying raised some eyebrows when he sent a legal letter to Apple Daily over a Sept. 8 editorial alleging corruption. Leung warned the paper to retract the comments o ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-05
... or Edward Wong Kwong-wing for nearly HK$40 million in 2013. The property was then subdivided into more than 70 smaller plots and sold to several villagers, all surnamed Tang, for only $100,000 each, a ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-05
... as Steven Wong -- can be seen skateboarding on the concave arc-shaped rooftop without wearing any protective gear. The stunt drew mixed reactions from netizens, with some labeling Wong as being crazy ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-05
Student activist Joshua Wong was being held in Bangkok airport Wednesday morning after arriving from Hong Kong Wong's Demosisto party said in a Facebook post he was detained at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-05
... dhist Po Kwong School, stressed that intellectually challenged students do have the ability to learn English and that they can benefit with lessons from native speakers. The Education Bureau (EDB) sho ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-04
... r Frances Wong from the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at PolyU, who was in charge of the study, said many young people underestimate the harms that alcohol can inflict on the body. Chan Ming-w ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-03
... l passing Wong Chuk Long, which has been a deserted and forlorn village of dilapidated houses for over 20 years. Leaving the ruins and relics behind, I could hear the sound of a stream growing louder ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
... ans (陳), Kwongs (鄺) and Laus (劉) are located within a complex while those of the Kans (簡) and Wongs (黃) are separated by an open lane on the right side of the compound. The entire complex has been des ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
... Professor Wong Wai-ching, former chairman of the Gender Research Center of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said the school's handling of the inspections was “absurd, unwise and disrespectful” and ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
... executive Wong Wai-sheung said there are over 30 company names derived from “Fook” (福), “Luk Fook” (六福) and “Chow” (周) in the mainland, and this has led to much confusion among consumers. “We lodge a ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
At a news conference held last week to discuss the controversial Wang Chau public housing project, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying admitted that he personally made the decision to scale down the proje ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
Lawmaker-elect Lau Siu-lai recently told the Hong Kong Economic Journal that the idea of Hong Kong self-determination is like a “concept stock” at this stage and probably won't materialize for 10 year ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-29
A 61-year-man who set himself and his paralyzed wife on fire during a quarrel has been sentenced to two years in prison. Judge Albert Wong Sung-hau of the High Court considered the case a tragedy and ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-29
... n Joshua Wong, secretary general of Demosistō and convenor of the defunct student activist group Scholarism that spearheaded the movement, told the crowd that civil awakening was the greatest achieve ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-29
... e. Joseph Wong Wing-ping, former secretary for civil service, said Tang has been retired for more than five years and there is nothing wrong about his working now for a private company, Ming Pao Daily ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-29
Italy will hold a referendum on constitutional reform on Dec. 4 involving a proposal to slim down the country’s legislature and speed up lawmaking. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s Democratic Party first ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-28
... n. Joseph Wong Wing-ping, the former secretary for the civil service, someone who clearly knows what he is talking about, has detailed how the CE rides roughshod over established procedures and practi ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-23
... s Candice Wong that he is learning to speak Cantonese and wants to engage the public on social media, a skill his predecessor, Clifford Hart, excelled at. -- Contact us at [email protected] AC/RA ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-23
Just days before the Sept. 4 Legislative Council elections, Ken Chow of the Liberal Party inexplicably dropped out of the race and left Hong Kong. He later said some powerful people from the mainland ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-22
