Dairy Farm, which operates the Wellcome Supermarket chain, has been fined HK$46,000 (US$5,935) after admitting to six counts of selling expired and improperly labeled food. The company was also order ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
(This is an update of a report first posted on Dec. 1, 4:30 p.m.) Problems with a glitch-prone rudder component and the way pilots tried to respond were major factors in the crash of an Indonesian Air ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-02
A US investigation has determined that the Oct. 3 air strike in Afghanistan that destroyed a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and killed 30 people was an avoidable accident caused primar ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-26
Chinese brokerage Citic Securities Co. said Wednesday it overstated certain financial transactions during a market meltdown this past summer. The revelation is the latest setback for the giant firm wh ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-26
Ever since the terrorist attacks in January on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket, Parisians knew that barbarism lurked around the corner and that it would strike again. But ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-17
Americans are becoming less religious, judging by such markers as church attendance, prayer and belief in God, and the trend is more pronounced among young adults, according to a poll. The share of US ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
A woman from Hong Kong died when the car she was driving broke into a railway level crossing in Taiwan and was hit by a train, Apple Daily reported Wednesday. Wong Wing-yin, 22, who was studying at Sh ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-28
Zimbabwe's 91-year-old President Robert Mugabe read out the wrong speech at the opening of parliament on Tuesday, an error which the main opposition quickly used to question whether Africa's oldest le ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-16
During the National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference meetings in March this year, Zhang Dejiang, the NPC's chairman and leader of the central liaison task force ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-31
Retailers are hurting from a stronger Hong Kong dollar which is making their merchandise more expensive for Chinese tourists whose own currency has been devalued. A growing number of Chinese consume ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-27
A patient at a Hong Kong hospital had part of his lung removed in a medical blunder that stemmed from wrongful cancer diagnosis, it was revealed Wednesday. Ko Wing-man, Secretary for Food and Health, ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-26
Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB), Hong Kong's largest free-to-air television station, has often come under fire over falling editorial standards and quality and its apparent pro-establishment stance. ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-25
Laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis (LASIK) has been the mainstream surgical corrective procedure for vision for the last 10 years, as both the surgical duration and rehabilitation time are short. ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-22
Tuen Mun Hospital has reported a medical error that affected more than 9,400 patients, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Thursday. The hospital’s department of pathology wrongly calibrated an in ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-23
Hong Kong police are pressing their investigation into a phone scam in which a man lost 1.7 million yuan (US$273,741) to swindlers posing as a courier and a policeman. The 40-year-old man, surnamed La ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-22
Fed up with error messages on your computer screen? Fret not. These might save you a fortune. A Hong Kong man is so thankful an error page flagged a fraudulent cash transfer he has probably made it hi ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-09
As the world awaits word of developments in the Greek debt crisis, the country's new finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, has given netizens something with which to occupy their time. In only his seco ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
From portable computing devices that give us anytime/anywhere connectivity to smart watches and wearables that capture and quantify our daily lives, technology not only enriches our lives, it changes ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
Divers continued searching waters in the central Philippines on Friday for 15 people still missing after a ferry carrying 187 passengers and crew sank a day earlier, killing 38 people, the coast guard ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
What's that again? China’s central Henan province, whose per capita GDP is way below the national average, is more competitive than Hong Kong? Well, that's the conclusion of a report by the China Inst ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-25
