She may have been disqualified from the Legislative Council but she gave us something to ponder this year. Yau Wai-ching topped the list of the most popular search terms for what became a much talked- ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-19
Since Leung Chun-ying announced last Friday that he would not seek a second term, Hong Kong has been in ferment as candidates step forward to take his place. But in Shanghai, China’s commercial capita ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-16
A three-meter Anaconda has been caught on a roadside in Castle Peak Road. The snake was spotted around 1 a.m. on Wednesday near Ting Kau Village in Tsuen Wan, TVB News reports. A snake expert was summ ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-14
The pro-democracy camp has achieved its aim of getting more than 300 seats in a body that will pick Hong Kong's next chief executive. They got 325 seats out of a possible 356 on the 1,200-strong Elect ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-12
How long can a newly listed stock keep rising more than 40 percent each day? Food Wise Holdings Ltd. (01632.HK), which began trading on the main board on Tuesday last week, saw its share price go up s ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-08
No one perhaps knows the Heart Sutra of Buddhism better than the disgraced "nun" Sik Chi-ding who has had some hard lessons in life on matters of love and money. After facing questions over her financ ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-05
Customs authorities arrested a 25-year-old man for illegally distributing pirated television content, including popular foreign and local dramas, through an online forum. Following a raid on some p ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-05
Nearly one in two Nepalese domestic helpers in Hong Kong are being exploited by their employers when it comes to wages, a survey has shown, pointing to the need for more efforts from authorities to pr ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-26
Burglars smashed the glass door of a Chanel store in Causeway Bay and ransacked the shop, carting away an estimated HK$2 million worth of handbags, watches and jewelry, police said. Security guards ca ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-20
Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB) will stop airing City Forum, a public forum held at Victoria Park every Sunday which TV stations have broadcast live since 1980, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-15
If you expect your Miss Hong Kong to be always prim and proper and never say anything unladylike, you are perhaps living in the wrong time. Given the fraught social and political environment in the c ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-13
The credibility of local news media has dropped to the lowest level since the handover, according to a survey conducted by the Centre for Communication and Public Opinion Survey of the Chinese Univers ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-09
A court has slapped an employment agency with a HK$30,000 fine for charging three Indonesian domestic helpers eight times the maximum fees allowed by law, local broadcaster TVB reports. The Eastern M ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-02
Stockbrokers are notorious for selling you something they know little about and/or something you don't want. In that sense, there's no need to point the finger at Christopher Cheung who is seeking ree ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-02
Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB) has launched a legal challenge against a ruling issued by the Communications Authority on indirect advertising in one of its shows aired late last year. In an applicat ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-22
Dozens of asylum seekers clashed with immigration officers at the Castle Peak Bay Immigration Center (CIC) Sunday night, demanding their release from detention. The group, mostly South Asians, African ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-16
What’s wrong with Hong Kong people – why can’t they get behind the Chinese national team in the Olympic games? Worse still, how dare they mock athletes from the mainland? Variations of these plainti ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-12
The Olympic Games used to be an effective tool for the authorities to promote patriotism in Hong Kong. There was a time not too long ago when Hong Kong people felt mighty proud when China's national a ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-09
Swimmer Stephanie Au Hoi-shun (歐鎧淳) became a hot topic in the media even before she hit the pool at the aquatics stadium in the 2016 Olympics. The 24-year-old, who is participating in her third Olympi ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-08
A male Filipino domestic helper was charged with stealing 28 pieces of jewelry worth around HK$100,000 from the house of his employer, actress Brianna Chan Ling-lei, the Sky Post reports. The 50-year- ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-04
