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
The Communications Authority (CA) has handed a fine of HK$150,000 to Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB) for indirect advertising during an annual awards show aired late last year. The regulator said it ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-25
Television Broadcasts, the city's biggest free TV station, used to be Hong Kong's pride. It was a leader in defining and shaping the city's pop culture in the 1980s. But the broadcaster appears to be ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-25
The High Court sentenced a 54-year-old mainlander to nine years and eight months in jail after he confessed to robbing a hotel guest in Tsuen Wan last year. Yang Xingyun admitted to seven charges, inc ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-11
All branches of ParknShop supermarkets have had to halt operations on Friday morning due to a computer system breakdown causing incorrect product prices at the cash registers, RTHK reported on Friday. ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-29
They are just twenty-somethings but that's not stopping them from launching ambitious plans to make their way into the local legislature through new political parties they founded. Some want a referen ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-27
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
