... kies. Two pro-establishment heavyweights, NPC standing committee member Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai and head of the Hong Kong NPC delegation Maria Tam Wai-chu, both of whom have been serving in the NPC for m ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-21
Pro-government forces pounded the rebel-held district of eastern Ghouta outside the Syrian capital Damascus on Tuesday, in a surge of violence that a war monitor said had killed at least 250 people si ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-21
Zhang Junsheng, a former representative of Beijing in Hong Kong, died on Monday in Hangzhou city in China's eastern Zhejiang province at the age of 82. Zhang, who served as deputy director of Xinhua N ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-20
The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), the city's largest pro-Beijing political party, has called on the government to utilize the budget surplus to provide relief ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-15
... or of the pro-independence Hong Kong National Party, filed a court challenge after his bid for a Legco seat in the New Territories West constituency was turned down by the officer, as the officer felt ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-14
... rming the pro-establishment lawmakers on an important bill that requires their presence in the Legislative Council has served to put the focus on the tools that should be adopted for effective communi ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-13
... hairs the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, criticized the pan-democratic camp for misleading the public by smearing the co-location plan by making disparag ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-13
... ites that provide quotes for all occasions, from Confucius, Abraham Lincoln and, not surprisingly, the Dalai Lama. Some of the 82-year-old Tibetan monk’s aphorisms sound like candidates for fortune co ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-12
... associate professor, professor or emeritus professor of any officially recognized university around the world whose specialty is related to "the study of peace", i.e. history, social science, law, phi ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-12
... lly those pro-Taiwan independence groups. According to sources familiar with the matter, since Beijing has become highly vigilant against any possible collusion between separatists in Hong Kong and Ta ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-09
... or of the pro-establishment bloc, Au said. Comparing democrats in the Legco to a football team, Au said he wishes to be a coordinator for the team so as to help it exert the most power in the chamber. ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-09
... p for any provocative cause such as secession from the mainland as long as they don't translate the rhetoric into action. However, the disqualification of Chow illustrates that even mere rhetoric can ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-09
... er a 2014 pro-democracy protest amounted to finding fault with the government over its handling of the case, Lam insisted that such claims are without basis. The ruling does not mean that the Departm ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-08
Hong Kong's top court ruled on Tuesday that the three student leaders convicted for their roles in a protest that led to the pro-democracy Occupy Movement in 2014 should not be jailed, overturning the ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-07
... rs of the pro-establishment camp to secure the passage of the bill before Legco takes its summer break in July this year. And the local legislation of the co-location plan has to be completed before t ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-07
... economic prosperity. Ramaphosa’s task of restoring the weak business confidence won’t be easy. The economy remains constrained by endemic corruption, high unemployment and a rigid labor market. Headw ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-05
... l power”. Prosecutors and Samsung did not have an immediate comment. Lee, whose face was noticeably worn, did not show any emotion when the ruling was announced. Prosecutors had sought a 12-year jail ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-05
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-Ngor has made it clear that the government does not welcome the nomination of three pro-democracy activists for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize because the 2014 Occ ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-05
... from the Professional Commons -- and believe the pro-establishment bloc's Tony Tse Wai-chuen is very likely to win this time. The reason, they noted, is that members of the pro-establishment camp hav ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-05
