... here is a problem. Who among them is capable of uniting the increasingly fragmented opposition groups and facilitating dialogue among the various factions so as to reach a consensus on the way forward ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-29
... owed that pro-establishment candidate Chan Hoi-yan took some 106,000 votes, prevailing over her pan-democratic rival Lee Cheuk-yan by a margin of about 13,000 votes. As for Frederick Fung Kin-kee, who ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-28
Taiwan's so-called nine-in-one local elections last Saturday ended in a catastrophic defeat for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), with the counties and cities under its control now standi ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-27
Police fired tear gas at protesters in Admiralty at the beginning of the Occupy protests in 2014 because they had no other choice as they faced a large crowd, a senior police officer told a West Kowlo ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-27
... f various pro-democracy parties bowed in unison, saying they were sorry for letting down their supporters with the poor showing in Sunday's election. Acknowledging that they came up short, the pan-de ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-27
... liament approved the introduction of martial law after Poroshenko reassured some skeptical lawmakers that it would not be used to curb civil liberties or delay elections scheduled for next year. It ca ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-27
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
