For the last quarter of the 20th century, the average temperature at the surface of the earth edged inexorably upward. Then, to the surprise even of scientists, it stopped. The concentration of carbon ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
Take a packed night train, throw in expressionless faces in a darkened coach and zero in on a subject illuminated by faint light from a mobile phone -- and click away. Brian Yen captured the exact mom ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-19
At midnight on Thursday, the border gate between Macau and the neighbouring district of Hengqin will be open all day for the first time. It is the moment that property developers in Zhuhai have been w ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-18
The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Hagupit is rising, with officials reporting conflicting figures. The Philippine Red Cross said Monday 27 people have been killed after the typhoon hit th ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-09
The biggest economic news of the year came almost without notice: China has overtaken the United States as the world’s largest economy, according to the scorekeepers at the International Monetary Fund ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-24
A 63-year-old Philippine tourist died of an apparent heart attack after riding the "Mine Train" roller-coaster at Hong Kong's Ocean Park on Thursday, Apple Daily reported. The male tourist arrived at ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-21
Pity our schools. Most people think they're making truckloads of money by breaking the backs of their students' hard-working parents, but truth to tell, they need more income to sustain their operatio ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-20
In Hong Kong, it pays to build in the price of property into the break-up costs when love ends. Take the interesting case of Canto pop diva Faye Wong, 45, and actor Nicholas Tse, 32, rekindling their ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-07
Young people are being overly selective in choosing jobs and most of them prefer happiness over pay, the Hong Kong Economic Times reported Friday, citing unnamed social workers. At a job expo organize ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-29
Risky Chinese intercepts of US surveillance planes over the South China Sea, which Washington assailed as dangerous, are likely to continue, even intensify, amid the military's resolve to shield its e ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-29
Ocean Park on Tuesday kicked off the promotion for its annual Halloween Fest, the first since entrepreneur Allan Zeman stepped down as chairman. It's one of the amusement park's biggest events, and or ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-27
Hong Kong's Ocean Park is set to launch what it considers its largest and scariest Halloween Festival on Oct. 2, raising the number of haunted houses to seven from five, with features that it says are ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-27
Want a discount ticket to Hong Kong's theme parks from Taobao? Be careful, the ticket may land you in a police station with a lot of explaining to do. With discount tickets in hand, a mainland woman, ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-26
The Peak could be at its scariest this Halloween. Fright Dome, one of America's most frightening destinations, is coming to Hong Kong, Metro Hong Kong reported Thursday. The Hong Kong edition of the ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-21
The crux of universal suffrage may not be who nominates but who gets nominated. That's the lesson of the ice bucket challenge, which poured into town this week. Whether you are the girlfriend of Asia' ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-20
Hong Kong residents were ranked seventh in a happiness survey conducted among people in the 18-40 age group in ten countries and cities in Asia Pacific region, TVB News reported Sunday, citing a study ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-11
Ocean Park may be the victim of its own success. One major drawback of spending a day at the amusement park is not the lack of attractions and thrills, but the long queues that visitors have to endure ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-25
A mysterious multilingual advertisement in the International New York Times is raising more questions than answers with its declaration of war on "marine predators", Apple Daily reported Thursday. The ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-24
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is grappling with a question writ large over an entire nation. Why? It is as much about Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, missing for more than 130 days, as it is ab ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-18
Four months after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines' Flight 370, Kuala Lumpur said it would step up its search for the missing jetliner in the southern Indian Ocean, the New York Times reported o ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-07
