Despite the gloomy prospects for the print media, there is talk that a leading pro-Beijing media group in Hong Kong is working aggressively to launch a new free newspaper targeting young readers. Acco ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-22
... sition to pro-establishment camps, have slammed Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po for failing to offer any relief to citizens in his budget speech on Feb. 28, despite his projection of a record cash ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-22
... vance his pro-independence cause, only to be arrested by the Spanish authorities after a failed uprising in August and later executed. After Rizal’s death, more and more key Filipino revolutionary fig ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-21
... from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party. China suspects Tsai wants to push for formal independence, which would cross a red line for Communist Party leaders in Beijing, though Tsai has ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-20
... ration of products to be released in the second half this year. Media speculated that Apple could unveil an iPhone X successor with a much bigger screen as well as a cheaper model to convince users t ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-20
... rexit has proved elusive so far. The dispute with Ireland had threatened to derail May’s hopes of a formal political endorsement of the transition deal by EU leaders when they meet in Brussels on Frid ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-20
... na. Liu’s promotion telegraphs Beijing’s intention to press ahead with a clampdown on riskier financing and a rapid build-up in debt to reduce systemic risks to the world’s second-largest economy, Reu ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-19
... an of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), received 2,941 “yes” votes, nine “no” votes and five abstentions. Tam's support rate was much higher than ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-19
Following the Legislative Council by-elections, members of the pro-establishment camp have started drawing conclusions about how Vincent Cheng Wing-shun of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment a ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-16
... t cheaper property alternatives in Hong Kong. The audit titan, operating presently from Citic Tower in the city's main financial hub, will move to Swire's redeveloped One Taikoo Place office tower tha ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-16
The results of last Sunday's Legislative Council by-elections caught many observers by surprise, with the pro-democracy camp managing to reclaim only two of the four seats that were up for grabs. Edwa ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-16
Hot on the heels of Sunday's Legislative Council by-elections came an attempt from the pro-establishment camp to have one of the winning pan-democrat candidates disqualified. On Tuesday, a businessman ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-15
The proposed local legislation of the national anthem law is scheduled to be discussed at the upcoming meeting of the Legislative Council committee on constitutional affairs on March 23. The question ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-14
... rment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), who had been widely seen as an underdog prior to the election, pulled off a major upset and defeated the pan-democratic favorite Edward Yiu Chung-yim by a narrow ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-14
... Moon's approval rating has soared to 71 percent. One of the reasons for his increased rating is that many South Koreans believe that the ice-breaking meeting between Trump and Kim wouldn't be possibl ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-13
... from the pro-government party Ghad is going to “run against” Sisi. According to Timothy Kaldas of the Washington, D.C.-based Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, it would be too kind to describe ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-13
... his main pro-establishment rival, Vincent Cheng Wing-shun. In the other lost battle, a result that was not entirely unexpected, Paul Zimmerman failed to deliver to the opposition bloc the architectu ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-12
... rs of the pro-establishment camp have got wind that Li Zhanshu, the incumbent secretary of the central secretariat of the Communist Party of China (CCP) and chief of the general office of CCP, is goin ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-09
... s, at the proper time, meaning the SAR will have to legislate its version of the law and implement it. A source from the SAR government said a policy paper on the new law will be tabled at the Legisla ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-09
Republican lawmakers stepped up calls for US President Donald Trump to pull back from proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports as a top White House economic adviser who opposes the tariffs said ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-07
