Hongkongers should not look at China’s national security from the viewpoint of “outsiders”, Tung Chee-hwa said. The city’s first post-colonial leader said Hong Kong will legislate a national security ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-21
A nephew of Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho has been held for questioning over alleged involvement in a prostitution racket. Alan Ho was one of dozens arrested Monday by prosecutors in the gaming encla ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
A former bar captain at a three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Macau has been arrested for substituting cheap wines for 50 bottles of top Burgundy wine, Apple Daily reported Thursday. The real bottles ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-08
In November, the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced a settlement in which six banks would be fined a total of US$4.3 billion for manipulating the foreign-exchange market. And ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
Former chief secretary Rafael Hui Si-yan and former co-chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. (00016.HK), Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong, were allowed to stay in individual wards in a prison hospital at Sta ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-29
What fate awaits Sun Hung Kai Properties without Thomas Kwok? Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong, co-chairman of SHKP, was found guilty of bribing Rafael Hui Si-yan, formerly Hong Kong's No. 2 official, and was s ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-24
Guess who is the highest-paid public servant in Hong Kong? It may come as a surprise to many, but the answer is Fred Lam Tin-fuk, who has been chief executive of the Airport Authority (AA) since Octo ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-18
We all know about Hong Kong's sky-high property prices, but can we put a figure on what the market is worth in total? According to the government's Ratings and Valuation Department, the total rent whi ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-10
The government has been urged to launch affordable housing schemes that would allow middle-class families to pay only 3 percent of the property value as down payment to enable them to acquire their ow ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-09
Hong Kong movie director Clifton Ko Chi-sum lit a firestorm on the internet Tuesday when he posted that students who go on a hunger strike might as well consider setting themselves on fire. Netizens s ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
Businessmen and taxi drivers are happy to see their business gradually recovering after traffic along Nathan Road began flowing again, RTHK reported Wednesday. The owner of a drugstore was quoted as s ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
Bread and milk: staple foods it's hard to imagine could ever be too different from one's childhood days. But hold on. Some might consider the enormous range of products on bakery shelves today to be ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
Everyone knows the Chinese Central Government’s Liaison Office exerts a lot of influence over how Hong Kong is run, but not too many people realize that it is also a heavyweight player in the local pr ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
Hong Kong has seen its ranks of super-rich swell to a record 3,335, according to the latest survey by Wealth-X and UBS, with one of the striking features being that women make up one-fourth of the lis ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-20
Parents have been scrambling to secure school places for their kids only to find that students have been on an extended summer holiday because of the pro-democracy protests. Ironic perhaps, but findin ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-08
In Hong Kong, it pays to build in the price of property into the break-up costs when love ends. Take the interesting case of Canto pop diva Faye Wong, 45, and actor Nicholas Tse, 32, rekindling their ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-07
China’s Communist Party has announced that a plenary session of its Central Committee will meet next month and the focus will be on the rule of law. While no one expects the party to allow a fully ind ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
Soaring home prices are making more Hongkongers eye government-subsidized apartments, with many families viewing the Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) units as their only chance to have an apartment in the ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-15
Who can Mickey Mouse and company play with when he comes to Shanghai? Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, or the Boonie Bears, perhaps? "Who knows?" said Stanley Cheung, chairman of Disney Greater China, ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-04
Citigroup has told its senior staff that they will receive fixed monthly payments in addition to their salaries to compensate for new rules limiting their bonuses to up to twice the level of base sala ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-01
