... s Supreme Court ruled that the law against gay sex, which dates back to the British colonial era, wasn't unconstitutional and could only be amended or repealed by legislation. The decision overturned ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-09
The Philippines argued at a closed hearing Tuesday that an international court should intervene in its dispute with China over rights to exploit natural resources and fish in the South China Sea, Reut ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
... n federal court. The department’s Office for Civil Rights dismissed on June 3 the complaint filed in May by more than 60 Asian-American groups. “We are very disappointed, but we won’t stop the fight,” ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
Amazon.com Inc. must face a trademark lawsuit brought by a watchmaker, a US federal appeals court ruled. The suit says the online retailer's search results can cause confusion for potential customers, ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
... football court in Taichung. Last year, his dream finally came true, but it quickly turned into a nightmare. He first rented a site which used to be a bowling club. Then he sent applications to the re ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
A Singapore court has handed teenage blogger Amos Yee a four-week jail sentence after finding him guilty of insulting religious feelings and for uploading an obscene image. However, the sentence was b ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... S Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare, which upheld key subsidies that underpin the reform and thus gave more certainty to healthcare insurers. The bigger the insurer, the more power it has negotiating ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... when the Court of Final Appeal ruled in favor of the asylum seekers in March 2013. The ruling ordered the Immigration Department to review its own mechanism for non-refoulement claims before executin ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-04
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
