Like most locals, I never had any worries about personal safety nor hesitated to travel anywhere -- and at any time -- within Hong Kong as I firmly believed the city was one of the safest places in th ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
The Hong Kong SAR government said it can handle its own affairs and keep law and order after China said deploying its military to maintain public order in the city cannot be ruled out. Responding to a ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
... rs in the city. Particularly, some young officials are said to be dismayed at what they perceive is a “state of anarchy” creeping into the city, and fearing that the troubles won't end anytime soon. A ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
... with the city of Kota Bharu in northeast peninsular Malaysia. The agreement to resume work on the project had immediately boosted confidence in Malaysia among foreign investors, China’s ambassador to ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
... veys, the city has deepened its financial markets over the last 11 years. A metropolis like Hong Kong can withstand some shocks. Our stock market, for example, has remained largely stable over the pas ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
... anchester City in the China-ruled city. Before the game, a few protesters handed out fliers outside the stadium where Man City played local outfit Kitchee. “We must protest. We are many,” said one pro ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
... s and the City of London. How will Johnson handle the negotiations? He is close to David Cameron and George Osborne, the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 2010 to 2016, before the B ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
... o rid the city of bullies, bring peace to law-abiding citizens and restore law and order, as well as uphold the law in practice. We would not want to buy into the notion that the police deliberately l ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-24
On Sunday, July 21, hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers again joined a mass rally organized by the Civil Human Rights Front to express their discontent over the state of affairs in the city in the wa ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-24
One of the world’s largest book fairs drew to a close in Hong Kong on Tuesday, with mixed results for the participants as attendance fell due to traffic woes amid anti-government protests in the city. ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-24
... cy in the City of London but dropped out after a week. He then turned to journalism, but was sacked from the Times newspaper for making up quotes. Hired by the Daily Telegraph, Johnson infuriated Euro ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-24
... make the city better. Commenting on Lam’s remarks, Democratic Party lawmaker Andrew Wan Siu-kin criticized Lam for not being qualified to say that “violence will only breed more violence” because she ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
... since the city was handed back to China by Britain in 1997 but with democratic freedoms under a “one country, two systems” formula. “I know that that’s a very important situation for President Xi,” Tr ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
... es of the city of Weihaiwei (now known as Weihai), which was under British rule between 1898 and 1930. Those patrolmen recruited by the British colonial authorities to serve in Hong Kong’s police forc ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-22
Anti-government protesters in Hong Kong gathered outside Beijing’s representative office in the city on Sunday night and vented their anger through acts of vandalism, which included spray-painting sur ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-22
... ch in the city earlier in the day, the latest in the series of anti-government actions triggered by the now-suspended extradition bill. As the gang of men beat up anyone wearing black, which was the ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-22
