Ever since the government put forward its proposed amendments to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, it has insisted that the initiative is aimed at addressing the suspected murder committed by Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-10
... European project are on the rise: Brexit supporters in the United Kingdom, populist governments in Central and Eastern Europe, and far-right parties in or near power virtually everywhere. Yet support ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-10
... ternative proposals recently put forward by legal experts and politicians as impractical, and insisted that the government’s proposed fugitives law change is the best option. The alternative proposals ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-09
The Legislative Council Secretariat has always strictly abided by the principle of political neutrality, its secretary general said, amid accusations that it is siding with the pro-establishment camp ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-08
The government insists that its proposal to amend existing extradition laws is the best option to handle a Taiwan murder case involving a Hong Kong suspect, thereby ruling out the possibility of makin ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-08
More than half of the members of the Legislative Council's bills committee, which is deliberating on the proposed amendments to the fugitives law, have agreed to adopt the guideline issued by Legco’s ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-08
Chaos threatens to scuttle work at the Legislative Council's bills committee, which is deliberating on the government proposal to amend the extradition laws, after the two opposing camps insisted on p ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-07
The government is hoping that its proposal to amend the extradition laws can be passed by the Legislative Council before the summer recess in July, but the bills committee that is handling it has yet ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-06
... oderately prosperous society by 2021, the year that marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Then second, by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the founding of th ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-03
... rs of the pro-establishment camp thought the judge was too lenient in the sentencing, and urged the administration to make an appeal. However, a government source has revealed that the period for fili ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-03
A Legislative Council bills committee formed to deliberate on the government proposal to amend the extradition laws was still unable to elect a chairman during its second meeting on Tuesday, preventin ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-02
... ny of the protesters in the capital Caracas had drifted home. National Guards fired tear gas at a hardcore of demonstrators who remained, and one injured demonstrator was carried by others to a first ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-02
... epartment proposed last week to strengthen law enforcement in public open spaces managed by the LCSD through amendments to the Pleasure Grounds Regulation, a meeting was held on Monday by the Legislat ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-30
... Unable to prosecute Chan for the murder as the crime took place outside Hong Kong, and as there was no evidence that the crime was premeditated in Hong Kong, prosecutors had laid charges of money laun ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-30
We say 130,000. They say 23,800. Those are the widely different estimates of the number of people who joined Sunday's pro-democracy march, the former from the organizers and the other from the police ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-29
... s favored pro-cyclical monetary policy – opposing stimulus when the economy needed it, and favoring stimulus when it was not required. When the Fed sought to boost the US economy in response to the 20 ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-29
