A scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is taking a saucy approach to promoting Cantonese. Benjamin Au Yeung Wai-hoo, a.k.a. Ben Sir, is a senior lecturer in CUHK's department of Chinese la ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-15
It appears that GEM board listings will now need to surge at least 20-fold on their debut if they want to attract good media coverage. Following the sweet success of Hypebeast (what a name – caveat em ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-13
It's the best of times and the worst of times for Hong Kong's television industry. First, the good news: the city finally has a new free-to-air station as Viu TV kicks off its service today, promising ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-07
Sometimes it is not easy to tell who is naïve and who is not – if we look at our university students and our senior citizens. Yes, university students can at times seem like they are yet to get out of ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-05
Bookseller Lee Bo (also known as Lee Po) has been allowed by mainland authorities to travel back to Hong Kong. During his first trip to the city last week following his three-month-long disappearance, ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-31
A student activist is free after being acquitted of assaulting a policeman during the 2014 democracy protests. A judge in Eastern magistrate's court ruled that the officer's testimony was questionable ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-30
It's fairly well known that TVB has been suffering a ratings decline. Still, the company's 2015 results, which showed a loss of HK$4.28 million from continuing operations against a net profit of HK$1. ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-30
Television Broadcasts Ltd. (00511.HK), Hong Kong's largest terrestrial television broadcaster, used to be the city's most profitable media company. However, TVB, which brought on board a significant ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-24
Lots of things can be said about local journalism students, whom I have had some first-hand experience teaching and mentoring in the last few years. Right, they do not usually read the newspapers – En ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-23
Chan Kam-lam, acting chairman of the Legislative Council Finance Committee, defended his decision last week that the committee members had voted to pass the extra budget for the Express Rail Link. He ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-14
As Miss Hong Kong, Louisa Mak Ming-sze gets lots of privileges such as getting invited into exclusive parties, but joining a bash at her alma mater is probably not one of them. We almost fell off our ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
Television Broadcasts Ltd. (00511.HK) defended its decision to use Putonghua and simplified Chinese characters in a prime-time news program as more complaints swamped the Communications Authority over ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-25
The Communications Authority has received about 10,000 complaints from viewers furious about Television Broadcasts Ltd. (00511.HK) starting to use simplified Chinese in subtitles for news programs on ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-24
Hong Kong's media sector has often been criticized for its tendency to side with Beijing authorities and the establishment in reporting political news and other developments, but at least most media o ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
Four days after the Mong Kok clashes, questions are still being raised about the conduct of the police and whether the officers could have handled the situation better. As investigations continue over ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-12
As Hong Kong grapples with the fallout of Monday's clashes between police and protesters over the issue of street hawkers, Initium Media has laid out the chain of events on that fateful "Mong Kok nigh ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-11
Miss Hong Kong Louisa Mak Ming-sze (麥明詩) broke the hearts of her fans over the weekend by coming away from the Miss Chinese International Pageant 2016 without a trophy. The result was expected, but t ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
Thanks to a steady diet of TVB dramas, many mainlanders new to Hong Kong see it as a city of dizzying skyscrapers, vibrant nightlife, fancy homes and other trappings of a modern, cosmopolitan metropol ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
The former head of a local psychiatric hospital has been accused of obtaining several overseas doctoral degrees fast-tracked by a suspected diploma mill. Paul Tam Mo-shing, 70, former head of Kwai Chu ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
A Hong Kong school at the center of a scandal over fast-tracked graduate degrees also cranked out diplomas for policemen. Lifelong College gave bachelor's degrees in criminal justice to 17 policemen t ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-20
