... People's Court in Beijing and has close ties with Xi Jinping (習近平), though Cai categorically denied any links with the top party leader. Communist cadres feel it behooves them to rein in Hong Kong, a ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-07
... sday, the Court of Appeal ruled that the government need not reconsider the company's application for a free-to-air TV license, quashing a lower court's decision. Wong's license bid was rejected by th ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-07
... imself in court because of his disability. He did not have a legal representative, as his legal aid application was still being processed. The court ruled that Sing will need to repay the loan to the ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-05
... Booking a court is hard. How about just staying at home? Flat too small and crowded. No wonder in a global survey of happiness, Hong Kong ranks only 75th among all countries and regions -- just a bit ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-05
... a recent court case in which a foreign resident in Hong Kong, employed at a relatively senior level by her company, applied for the right of her same sex partner to be granted residency, as is the ca ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-01
... when the Court of Final Appeal unanimously ruled in a controversial case that Chinese citizens born in Hong Kong enjoy the right of abode regardless of the immigration status of their parents. The co ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-01
... e Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the power-plant regulation. -- Contact us at [email protected] RA/CG ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-01
... rnational court ruling expected in the coming weeks on a case brought by the Philippines against China over its South China Sea claims could prompt Beijing to declare an air defense identification zon ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-31
... the High Court building. On any given weekday you can always find dozens of lawyers digging in at Grappa’s during lunch hours. It is also a popular place for many senior barristers and law firm partn ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-31
... istrate's court heard. The bag contained a watch, some cash and other items worth HK$1,200 (US$155), Apple Daily reports. Chan was arrested hours later in his Shek Lei Estate flat in Kwai Chung after ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-30
... appeal a court ruling that allowed the activist to go abroad. Now, why can't it show the same kind of tolerance when it comes to dealing with Taiwan-related issues? This article appeared in the Hong ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-30
A student activist is free after being acquitted of assaulting a policeman during the 2014 democracy protests. A judge in Eastern magistrate's court ruled that the officer's testimony was questionable ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-30
... llenge or court injunction on the sale of political books, why did the book store chain remove controversial titles, observers questioned. Now, with the decision to exit airport operations, doubts wi ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
... h a state court in Clark County, Nevada, Elaine Wynn is seeking to void the agreement so she can take control of her Wynn Resorts stake, plan her estate to benefit her daughters, and stop Steve Wynn f ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
... e of High Court Judge Esther Toh Lye-ping in 2014. But the burglars fled as a security alarm was activated. In October 2012, the home of Elizabeth Tse Man-yee, the-then Permanent Secretary for Financi ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
... tunity to court and flatter the leaders in Beijing. However, he is in the business of the free flow of information and seems not to understand that all this fawning will, at best, produce little more ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
... plans to court 330 million Chinese who live within a three-hour train or car trip of Shanghai. "Relying on the large desire for family-style entertainment and the rising purchasing power of Chinese c ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
The US government has dropped its court case against Apple Inc. after it was able to access data stored on an encrypted iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the attackers in last year’s shooting ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad has filed a lawsuit against Prime Minister Najib Razak, accusing him of corruption and abuse of power. The civil suit filed in a Kuala Lumpur court seeks appro ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-24
... "People's Court”. The Security Bureau will be reorganized into the municipal public security bureau and the Independent Commission Against Corruption replaced by the communist party’s commission for d ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-23
