The pan-democrats failed to win back a lost seat in the Legislative Council after the pro-establishment candidate clinched Sunday's by-election for the Kowloon West geographical constituency. Chan Hoi ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-26
... ing for a pro-Moscow insurgency in eastern Ukraine, the incident risks pushing the two countries towards a wider conflict. Ukraine denied its ships had done anything wrong, accused Russia of military ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-26
Voters in Taiwan have delivered a strong rebuke to the island’s pro-independence ruling party in local elections, emboldening the China-friendly opposition, Reuters reports. The ruling Democratic Prog ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-26
As the trial continues of nine leaders of the 2014 Occupy street protests, a Hong Kong courtroom on Thursday witnessed emotional scenes, with some of the defendants bursting into tears as they recalle ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-23
... c Opinion Programme of the University of Hong Kong (HKUPOP) showed that only 65.4 percent of those who voted for Dr. Edward Yiu Chung-yim in the Legco by-election in March plan to vote for Lee this ti ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-23
... ed by the pro-democracy camp, but, quite intriguingly, didn't get much response from the pro-Beijing camp, which had remained steadfast over the years in its support of the controversial legislation p ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-23
... d staunch pro-EU factions, and various shades of gray in-between. EU officials said there was a solid consensus that remaining niggles should not hold up a final deal for Sunday, as the other 27 gover ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-23
... outspoken pro-establishment figure was diagnosed with cancer more than a decade ago and had since been undergoing chemotherapy and had surgery several times, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. Pr ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-22
With the much-anticipated Legislative Council Kowloon West by-election just days away, the pro-democracy and the pro-establishment camps are firing on all cylinders to garner support for their candida ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-21
The government has proposed three measures to combat ticket scalping, which has been on the rise in recent years, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. The proposals against ticket scalpers, who res ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-21
... also not pro-EU, let’s be clear – nor the liberal-democrats. That is the great problem facing the government of Theresa May. That not even the government as a whole supports this agreement. The resig ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-21
Nine democracy activists who went on trial on Monday for their perceived role in the 2014 Occupy street protests pleaded not guilty to all the charges laid out against them, while stressing that they ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-20
... hington’s protectionist and unilateral approach to global trade as being "short-sighted" and "doomed to failure". Pence, meanwhile, hit back by telling his foreign counterparts that the United States ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-20
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc. swung to a net profit in the third quarter, beating analyst estimates, amid robust sales in India and Europe, Reuters reports. Profit for the three months through ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-20
As a courtroom trial begins of key leaders of the 2014 Occupy Central protests, a main figure behind the civil disobedience campaign has said he is preparing himself for a potential jail sentence. B ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-19
... West and promise not to ever again damage the “one country, two systems” principle. Democratic Party lawmaker James To Kun-sun and Charles Mok Nai-kwong of the Professional Commons also expressed con ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-16
... pects and protects such a right must be a proportionate response with the aim of upholding a legitimate societal interest and backed by cogent and persuasive evidence,” the HKBA said in a statement on ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-16
... cation of pro-democracy election candidates, the saga over the missing booksellers of Causeway Bay Bookshop, and the denial of work visa for Financial Times journalist Victor Mallet as examples indica ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-15
