... ts of the city for 79 days in late 2014 to demand "genuine universal suffrage" in electing the chief executive. It was one of the boldest populist challenges against Beijing in decades. The demonstrat ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-09
Dante’s Divine Comedy describes one level of hell (the City of Dis) as “Satan’s wretched city … full of distress and torment terrible”. He could well have been describing many modern-day metropolises. ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-09
... th of the city as it seeks to advance along a road from a disused former international airport. Witnesses said on Monday afternoon the LNA had lost control of the old airport and withdrawn from positi ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-09
The measles outbreak in Hong Kong this year has set the entire city on edge. Recently when I returned to Hong Kong from a Singapore trip, I noticed that airport staff at the arrivals terminal was on f ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-08
... treat the city as a separate customs territory in such areas as export control, visa issuance andimmigration quotas. That is why current US trade sanctions against China don’t apply to Hong Kong, and ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-08
... es in the city in grave danger. Once passed, they said, the bill would deprive Hongkongers of legal protection against persecution and undermine the overall business environment of the territory. The ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-08
... ds in the city are considering leaving Hong Kong. Not only does it hurt our international image, we are losing valuable employment and economic growth opportunities. According to the Lantau Tomorrow V ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-08
... es in the city such as Island East and Kowloon East, but also continue to bring rental increases in Central. A stable cap rate coupled with still-increasing rent should translate to further price incr ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-08
Eastern Libyan forces carried out air strikes on the southern part of Tripoli on Sunday and made progress toward the city center, residents said, escalating an operation to take the capital as the Uni ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-08
... f a smart city is mentioned in chapter 5 of the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA Plan). Both platforms are actually the same with all data centering on ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-04
... id Mexico City-based digital platform Cultura Colectiva openly stored 540 million records on Facebook users, including identification numbers, comments, reactions and account names. Another database, ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-04
... le in the city's law regarding the surrender of fugitives. The association pointed out that the government has so far failed to explain why it thinks that circumstances have changed since 1997, in ter ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-03
... ld in the city is allowed to contain malachite green. Offenders will be prosecuted and liable to a fine of up to HK$50,000 and imprisonment for six months upon conviction. As children are more prone t ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-03
... us as the city's largest airline. If it didn't grab the chance, other rivals could have snapped up HK Express and challenged Cathay Pacific’s dominant position in Hong Kong. Peers like Japan Airlines ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-02
... anchester City in 2016. The investment yield of these assets remains a big unknown. The TVB stake he has bought, for example, was down by two-thirds in four years as the city largest free-to-air broad ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-01
