A court found a 70-year-old man guilty of common assault for attacking a pro-democracy activist during last year's Occupy protests, Ming Pao Daily reported on Friday. The incident happened in front of ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
... pending a court appearance. The case was brought by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) after an investigation into alleged irregularities in the tender for renovation works on Garden ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
... arlier, a court in California ruled that an Uber driver is an employee, not an independent contractor. The ruling means Uber may be forced to provide benefits such as health insurance and social secur ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
An Italian court found a Tunisian man guilty of trafficking migrants and sentenced him to 18 years in jail for contributing to a 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 people. A court in Agrigento, Sicily, on ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
Hong Kong should consider collecting opinions on same-sex marriage after a recent landmark decision by the US Supreme Court making it legal in all 50 states. The issue has split many societies but the ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-30
On Friday, the US Supreme Court released a widely anticipated ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, unleashing a deluge of triumph from marriage equality supporters and criticism from it ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-30
Gay rights group Big Love Alliance (BLA) said it has no plans to raise the issue of same-sex marriage in the July 1 protest in the wake of the US Supreme Court ruling declaring the legality of marriag ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-29
A mainland student of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University admitted in court that she had sex in the street just hours after she and her co-accused pleaded not guilty to the charge of committing an ac ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-26
The son of a mainland business tycoon pleaded not guilty in a Hong Kong court Wednesday to charges of conspiracy to defraud after he allegedly used a pinhole camera to cheat in a marine vessel operato ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-25
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) secured a court order Tuesday to freeze the assets of a China-based trader in connection with a probe into market activity related to Qihoo 360 Technolo ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-25
A businessman on China's most-wanted list of people accused of corruption told a Canadian court he deserves refugee protection, Reuters reported. Cheng Muyang, known in Vancouver as developer Michael ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-25
A single mother who pled guilty earlier this month to abandoning her mentally challenged 13-year-old daughter has been handed an 18-month probation order by a Hong Kong court on Tuesday. Sparing the w ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-24
... down by a court in April after the holidays were taken out and his good behavior in prison was considered. Lawmaker Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung, who has been helping him and his wife, said Shi plans to ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-23
A Polytechnic University student who was charged with some offenses during an anti-parallel-trading protest in February walked free from a court on Monday as a magistrate dismissed the testimonies of ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-23
... istrates' Court on Monday, RTHK reported. Li Kin-keung, the father, said he was infuriated after his son did not return for 15 minutes while the family was having dinner in a restaurant in March this ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-22
Belgium has unblocked Russian state accounts it had frozen, BBC News reported, citing the Belgian foreign minister. The assets were seized after an international arbitration court ruled in July last y ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-22
A heartbroken widow is asking Hong Kong's High Court to stop her son from evicting her from her flat. The woman claims her son and his wife have been pressing her to leave her Tsz Oi Court apartment i ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-19
A 21-year-old white man has made his first court appearance after being arrested in the killing of nine people in a historic African-American church in South Carolina. CNN is reporting that Dylann Roo ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-19
... ly to the court to revoke an arrest warrant if the person involved had died. Law Society chairman Stephen Hung said Ma’s warrant could be removed if the police and the justice department presented his ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-18
... ives. The court heard that Chan had admitted belonging to the National Independent Party with her five co-accused. Later, outside court, Chan said she is no longer a member of the party. Meanwhile, th ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-18
