... emocratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the opposition Kuomintang (KMT). Simply put, the Hong Kong issue is likely to become one of the key themes of the upcoming Taiwan presidential election. Comments ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-12
Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators who threw plastic bottles in running battles outside the Legislative Council on Wednesday as protests continued against an extradition bill th ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-12
... fear the proposal would allow dissidents to be sent to mainland China for trial, camped out in the Legco area overnight, and as the crowds swelled, occupied Lung Wo Road and Harcourt Road in the morn ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-12
... ple being probed by the Justice Department and the FTC looking at Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook. Makan Delrahim, assistant attorney general, noted in a video speech to a conference in Israel that the J ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-12
As Hong Kong people staged a million-strong march on Sunday to denounce the extradition bill, the government has stepped up efforts to seal the support of the pro-establishment camp for its controvers ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-11
Civic Party lawmaker Tanya Chan Suk-chong was on Monday given a suspended prison term by a local judge for her role in the 2014 pro-democracy Occupy protests. The democracy activist was given eight mo ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-11
On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of people poured onto the streets in Hong Kong to express their anger at the government's proposed changes to the extradition law. The Civil Human Rights Front claimed ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-11
Chief Executive Carrie Lam is stubbornly refusing to walk back her extradition bill despite the huge protest march by citizens, but she was honest enough to acknowledge the scale of the Sunday demonst ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-11
... lation to proposed enactment of a national security law. The judges’ remarks on the law change, as quoted by the media, have drawn the attention of their superior -- Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma Tao-li - ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-10
Sunday's protest march against the extradition bill saw some demonstrators clash with the police late Sunday night, resulting in injuries to a few police officers as well as a number of protesters. A ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-10
Undeterred by Sunday's massive protest against planned changes to the extradition law, the government said the second reading debate on the Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal M ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-10
... Sunday’s protest march will raise the pressure on the administration of Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and her official backers in Beijing. “She has to withdraw the bill and resign,” veteran De ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-10
... an rights protection. Kwok then asked Lee to answer the question as to whether China is able to provide sufficient human rights protection. The security chief said he cannot comment further. There are ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-06
... rily mean pro-establishment lawmakers are home free and can enjoy their summer recess after that, as another major battle is looming on the horizon, i.e. the work involving appropriation by the Financ ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-06
... Redmi K20 Pro ranks fourth. Tmall's ranking also places iPhone XR on the top of the heap with 120,000 units sold. Huawei's P30 Pro ranks second with 59,000 units, followed by P30 and Redmi Note 7. The ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-06
... criminal prosecutions. With anger against Beijing and its surrogate administration in Hong Kong growing, other democratic groups and political parties also benefited from the record turnout at the Ju ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-06
Apple has unveiled the next versions of operating systems for its entire hardware portfolio, promising several key improvements. Among the many initiatives that were highlighted on Monday at the firm' ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-05
Even weeks before the event, China's censors were already busy blocking text and images on social media that had a reference – no matter how slight or indirect – to the bloody crackdown on pro-democra ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-05
... right to protest, to respect freedom of expression” and stop mass detention of Uighurs and other Muslims, the prime minister told reporters. Diplomatic relations between Canada and China have deterio ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-05
