Ho Hung-hei, Hong Kong's "King of Umbrella", died on Monday. He was 87. His funeral has been set for the end of August, Headline Daily reported on Wednesday. Ho, who was known for his skills in making ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-23
... ndent Chu King-wai, former commander of the Sha Tin police division, said there is no basis to a complaint filed against him that he had beaten up some passers-by during a clearing operation in Mong K ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-22
... of casino king Ko Ho-ning, in August 2003 to tear down the historic building and construct a 23-storey commercial building with a gross floor area of 2,700 square meters. The AMO said it held three di ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
... ndent Chu King-wai used his baton to beat two passersby during a clearing operation in Mong Kok in November and was suspected of abusing his power. The decision could lead to Chu, who is due to retire ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
... d avoid taking center stage too often, so as not to steal the show. Hong Kong is such a strange city. We have a so-called pro-establishment camp but no conservatives in the political sense. The reason ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
Hong Kong police are looking for a mainlander who is suspected to be on the run with HK$8 million (US$1.03 million) worth of stolen jewelry after a burglary at a luxury home last Friday. Three men are ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-13
... dessert-making competition arranged by Lai King Correctional Institution, Yanka named her work “hope” and dedicated it to her mother, making sure it suited her preference for less sugar. Although she ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
A retiring police superintendent is the subject of a disciplinary review over alleged beatings during last year's democracy protests. Hong Kong’s Independent Police Complaints Council is looking into ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-09
... he United Kingdom, he said, because Hong Kong’s population would have no political future after the colony reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. A Northern Ireland civil servant, George Fergusson, seized ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
... orted. Au King-lun, chief executive of BOCHK Asset Management, was quoted as saying that his firm has filed applications to the Chinese watchdog to sell two funds in the mainland. Meanwhile, mainland ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
There must a direct correlation between media and politics, but a reverse correlation between media and economics. Although many media owners are either losing money or making much less than before, ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-29
... s been working in a high-tech company at Silicon Valley for years. Based on my observations and the insights gained from the trips, I can say that Hong Kong's failure to establish a startup ecosystem ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-27
... -year-old King of the New Territories whose tardiness was the root of the pro-administration camp's debacle, was the source of the leak. We're not even sure if he knew how to send a text message. Jame ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-26
... me "Snake King Pong", took about 10 minutes to capture the python. Pong said the python was male and about 60 years in age. As there was no trace of the cat and the python’s abdomen showed a clear bul ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-26
... eigner working in Southeast Asia, gained the confidence of the love-struck woman and began soliciting money. Over the course of ten months, he is said to have asked for money 32 times and cheated the ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-26
Sa Sa International Holdings (00178.HK), Luk Fook Holdings International (00590.HK) and King Fook Holdings (00280.HK) are shutting underperforming stores as the retailers have suffered from weaker tou ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-26
The resounding veto of the government's election bill last Thursday has unquestionably incurred Beijing’s wrath, while sparking widespread astonishment in the international community. Despite their su ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-23
... were the king of your own fiefdom. And life was good. Then President Xi Jinping's crackdown on corruption kicked in. It’s just a temporary thing, you thought, just like all the other short-lived anti ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-23
The pro-establishment lawmakers who walked out of Legco to "wait for Fat Suk" ("King of the New Territories" Lau Wong-fat) eventually failed to cast their vote to "pocket it first", leading to a resou ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-19
... England's King James in 1605, or the Reichstag Fire, an arson attack on the German parliament building in Berlin in 1933. One can’t help feeling that worse things are about to happen. Prosperous metro ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-18
