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
Police raided the office of a fake solicitors' firm in Central following complaints that it was operated by a syndicate that has victimized at least 13 people who paid around HK$10 million to obtain l ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-28
The Hong Kong government has launched a crackdown on illegal premises in industrial buildings. Some units in these buildings are being used as cafes, clubhouses, restaurants, mini-warehouses, and even ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
An Indonesian domestic helper has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly half a million Hong Kong dollars worth of valuables from actress and Cantopop singer Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi, Apple Daily reported. T ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-30
Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB), Hong Kong's top terrestrial television broadcaster, is facing criticism over a parenting show that it aired on its main Cantonese language channel on Monday. Critics ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-22
I've said before that Hong Kong citizenship can sometimes offer a person more protection and reassurance than what people holding other foreign passports can get if they fall in trouble in China. Lam ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-22
The fishball snack business run by Halina Tam Siu-wan, winner of the 1994 Miss Hong Kong Pageant, has just expanded into East Tsim Sha Tsui from its first foothold in Causeway Bay. It has been more th ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-10
Most people outside Television Broadcasts Ltd. (00511.HK) scratched their heads when Natalis “Nat” Chan Pak-cheung was picked as the torchbearer for Hong Kong in the torch relay this week for this yea ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-10
Television Broadcasts Ltd. (00511.HK) has been airing the hit mainland Chinese television drama Nirvana in Fire (琅琊榜) in the 9:30 p.m. primetime slot since last month. Audience ratings have suffered a ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-06
Before she shot to fame, when Corinna Chamberlain walked into a cha chaan teng or small local retail store, the employees would panic and yell for an “English-language expert” to come and help serve h ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-27
An illegal immigrant suspected of a series of burglaries going back seven years was arrested on Thursday after a routine identity check. The 38-year-old man from Hunan province was held by the authori ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-27
