People Power lawmaker Raymond Chan Chi-chuen said he has written to Legislative Council president Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen demanding an explanation on why his proposal to study the feasibility of allowi ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-22
... June 14, provides for the operation of customs, immigration and quarantine facilities of Hong Kong and mainland China at the West Kowloon terminus of the Express Rail Link. Those opposing the bill in ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-22
... cs in the process. Next year’s European Parliament election is likely to reveal more about the potential for such political restructuring. The European Parliament has never generated the same level o ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-22
Police and pro-democracy activists are still in a standoff over the venue of the July 1 march. The Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), the organizer of the annual march, wants the rally to start from Eas ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-19
... e seen as problem solved. The fact that very harsh sentences were handed down adds to their pleasure. However, the 'strong message' that was supposedly delivered by sentences of up to seven years in j ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-15
... the legal process is finished. Asked if Leung could run even though he had expressed opposition to the one-party rule in China, Fung said it is not for the EAC but the returning officers to review ca ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-11
Times Square has asked the League of Social Democrats (LSD) to remove an exhibit and a sculpture of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo that the pro-democracy party has put up on the grounds of the ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-11
... ld and by providing Mandarin translations for many sessions -- half of the participants were from the mainland. Among the big names was Ana Forrest, an American, who has been teaching for nearly 40 ye ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-11
The Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) will announce next week the venue of the July 1 pro-democracy march after the traditional starting point of the mass action, Victoria Park's football pitches, had b ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-07
... ng policy proposals cleared in the Legislative Council, saying that it is not always easy. Even the support of the pro-Beijing lawmakers cannot be taken for granted, she said, noting that legislators ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-07
... ice, some pro-establishment lawmakers are said to have approached the pan-dems and tested the water with them to find out whether they would be willing to accept the invitation. According to the pro-e ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-07
... me in the pro-Beijing and pro-establishment individuals that people who call for an end to one-party dictatorship may be disqualified from future Legislative Council elections as they would possibly b ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-05
The United States urged China to make a full public account of those killed, detained or who went missing during a crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Squ ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-04
A magistrate on Monday sentenced two ousted pro-independence lawmakers to four weeks in jail for unlawful assembly inside the Legislative Council, government broadcaster RTHK reports. Sixtus "Baggio" ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-04
... , but the pro-establishment camp is quite optimistic that the bill will pass by late June. As we all know, Beijing has ordered the SAR government to secure the passage of the bill at all costs before ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-04
... two of my pro-establishment colleagues, Abraham Shek Lai-him and Jeffrey Lam Kin-fung. The two legislators eagerly took issue with me and the Civic Party to which I belong over the idea of levying an ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-04
... s, namely Pro Evolution Soccer, League of Legends, Starcraft II, Hearthstone, Clash Royale, and Arena of Valor Of this, Chinese players are strongest in League of Legends, Starcraft II, Hearthstone an ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-01
... rs of the pro-establishment camp are still tearing their hair out looking for the right and qualified candidate to run against the pan-dems. It is because even though both Scott Leung Man-kwong repres ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-01
