A 40-year-old man pleaded guilty in the Hong Kong High Court Thursday to three charges of possession of firearms and ammunition without a license, in a case that began nearly two years ago. Wong Kin-w ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-11
At last week’s Legislative Council meeting, at which the administration finally, and rather unwillingly, withdrew the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2014, the obviously aggravated secretary for commerce a ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-10
... s was Ray Wong Toi-yeung, convener of the localist group, who was arrested Feb. 21 on a charge of inciting violence during the Mong Kok clashes on the night of Feb 8. He was granted bail with conditio ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-10
On Wednesday evening, a 20-year-old arts student from the University of Hong Kong jumped to his death from the rooftop of a building in Wong Tai Sin where he lived with his parents. The student report ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-10
... groups. Wong Wai-man, director of the Bar Bending Solidarity Union, said it is unfair to blame the delays in construction projects on labor shortage. However, there have also been different opinions ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-10
... ftop of a Wong Tai Sin building where he lived with his family. According to Apple Daily, the student, a person surnamed So, left a note at home suggesting that he was depressed due to academic and ot ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-10
The "One Belt, One Road" (OBOR) initiative involves many big infrastructure projects with long payback period and high risks. So far, most of the funds are from government-backed institutions while pr ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-09
... tor Linda Wong said the figures are alarming, specially on workplace-related abuse which averaged 10 a year and rose "significantly" last year. She said many of the victims were afraid to say no if th ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-09
... eanwhile, Wong Wai-man, director of the Bar Bending Solidarity Union, said the wages are too low, in some cases up to 44 percent lower than market rates. The controversial project is expected to miss ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-09
... death in Wong Tai Sin early on Monday. Data shows there have been 19 student suicides in the city since the school year opened in September last year. Most of the cases were found to be related to th ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-09
... lawmaker Wong Yuk-man and Lingnan University professor Horace Chin, had been among the groups that had been quite firm in recent months on the issue of immigrants from China. Those groups had been th ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
A maltese puppy left in a car for hours triggered a chain of events that ended with police officers and firemen coming to its rescue. The dog owner, surnamed Wong, said he left the diminutive canine i ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
... surnamed Wong, died two days after being admitted to the United Christian Hospital (UCH) in Kwun Tong for pnemonia and other symptoms in January, Apple Daily reports. Cambridge Nursing Home, where Wo ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
A 63-year-old taxi driver who had been jailed four times for overcharging his passengers has pleaded guilty to the same offense and nine other charges. The driver, surnamed Wong, admitted before an Ea ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
... Street in Wong Tai Sin at about 12:11 am. A passer-by spotted him and alerted the police, who arrived with paramedics. Chow was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police suspect that Ch ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
... vener Ray Wong Toi-yeung in court in the wake of the Mong Kok unrest last month. The Civic Party’s Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu, the mainstream candidate who won the by-election, remained on good terms with E ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-07
... erhu king Wong Kwok-tong, 76, and his soprano wife Li Yuen-yung lost HK$22.8 million to such fraudsters. Which is why this latest phone scam is no longer news but we will keep running stories like thi ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-07
Education primarily serves the purpose of promoting children’s well-being and equipping them with knowledge and skills for coping with difficulties in future. However, is Hong Kong education working t ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-05
... ss Nelson Wong Sing-chi as its candidate. Both Wong and the pro-establishment ex-Liberal Party member Christine Fong Kwok-shan barely registered with the voters who, we were told, were desperate for ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-05
... laywright Wong Kwok-kui (黃國鉅) to young Hongkongers' desperate search for self-identity and the ideology of localism prevailing when waves of protests against the government's plan to introduce nationa ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-05
