... ere legal procedures are not always adhered to and where suspects have been forced to confess on television before a trial. Even the business community, which usually supports the government, objected ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-20
The Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that Joshua Wong Chi-fung, a key leader of the 2014 Occupy Movement, should be punished for ignoring a court injunction in the clearance of a protest site, despit ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-17
Amid growing opposition to the government's proposal to amend the city's extradition laws, Beijing’s Liaison Office has scheduled a meeting today with Hong Kong delegates of the Chinese People’s Polit ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-17
The Hong Kong government's move to revise the territory's extradition laws is “appropriate, reasonable and lawful”, a top Chinese official overseeing Hong Kong affairs said on Wednesday, justifying th ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-16
... eract the pro-cyclical nature of the private financial system, which lends too much in booms and rations credit during crises. The private sector also often fails to provide enough financing for small ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-16
... h as 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square and the Himalayan region of Tibet, have long been blocked in China, however, even while the main site is accessible. Suspicion of a total block on ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-16
... rment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) last week urged Legco president Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen to bring forward a meeting of the Legislative Council Commission. There was talk that the meeting was moved ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-15
The administration has refused to intervene in the row between pan-democrats and the pro-establishment camp at the Legislative Council bills committee, which is handling the controversial proposal to ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-15
The Legislative Council bills committee was still unable to start work on a government proposal to amend the extradition laws as two rival camps remained in a deadlock on Tuesday morning, the Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-14
... w, as the proposed changes to the law are being opposed by many in the society. For six weeks now, Lam has failed to get a bills committee at the Legco from going ahead with a discussion on the propos ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-14
... ld reduce prospective Chinese GDP growth by as much as one percentage point in the coming year. As demonstrated in recent months, China has meaningful policy capability to mitigate these impacts in th ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-14
... emocratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been working aggressively to “desinicize” Taiwan, the ROC flag has basically disappeared in many official events and election campaign rallies. Intriguingly, thou ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-10
... rding the proposed amendments to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance (FOO) from Civic Party leader Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu, Lam said claims that the current law was intended to prevent offenders from being ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-10
Ever since the government put forward its proposed amendments to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, it has insisted that the initiative is aimed at addressing the suspected murder committed by Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-10
... European project are on the rise: Brexit supporters in the United Kingdom, populist governments in Central and Eastern Europe, and far-right parties in or near power virtually everywhere. Yet support ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-10
... ternative proposals recently put forward by legal experts and politicians as impractical, and insisted that the government’s proposed fugitives law change is the best option. The alternative proposals ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-09
The Legislative Council Secretariat has always strictly abided by the principle of political neutrality, its secretary general said, amid accusations that it is siding with the pro-establishment camp ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-08
The government insists that its proposal to amend existing extradition laws is the best option to handle a Taiwan murder case involving a Hong Kong suspect, thereby ruling out the possibility of makin ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-08
