A debate on proposed changes to the Legislative Council's rules of procedure descended into chaos on Thursday as pan-democrats did everything they could to disrupt the discussion and engaged in fierce ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-08
... that the pro-Beijing camp wants to reduce Legco's authority to monitor the government and turn the legislature into a rubber stamp. If the Legco president is able to limit the debate on a particular ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-07
... him an approval rating of around 80 percent. But casting the IOC ban as a dastardly Western plot to hurt Russia, something he did when Russian athletes were banned from last year’s Summer Olympics in ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-07
... sure from pro-Israel politicians in the US to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and Trump made it a signature promise of his campaign during the 2016 presidential election. It is a decision ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-07
Kudos to the Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) for keeping its decision to organise the upcoming Legislative Council by-elections on March 11, without bowing to the pro-Beijing camp's request to resc ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-05
Pro-establishment camp figures, including Starry Lee Wai-king, chairwoman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, have been lashing out at the government and the Elect ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-05
... 88, which produced a two-party system comprising Whigs, who supported the new settlement, and Tories, who resisted it. That system lasted for more than a century, until the 1840s, when Whig became syn ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-05
... uly for improper oath-taking last year, will be held on March 11. The nomination period will run from Jan. 16 to 29, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. The vacancies include one for each of three ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-04
According to Legislative Council President Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen, the joint debate on the proposed amendments to the Legco rules of procedure can start in the next council meeting on Dec. 6 at the ea ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-01
The adjournment of last week's Legislative Council meeting due to a lack of quorum was just a sideshow of the ongoing battle between the pan-democrats and the pro-establishment camp over the latter's ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-30
... c opinion program of the University of Hong Kong, Lam’s popularity rating has increased by 4.0 marks from early November to 62.9. Her latest approval rate is 54 percent while the disapproval rate is 3 ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-29
... erence to protest the decision, saying it is aimed at ruining their political career by forcing them into bankruptcy. However, according to sources, even though Legco President Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen, ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-29
... ered four pro-democracy lawmakers who were stripped of their seats in July to return the salaries and allowances they received prior to their disqualification. Letters were sent to the disqualified ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-28
Four former pro-democracy lawmakers said the Legislative Council Commission's decision to demand that they pay back the salaries and allowances they had received prior to their disqualification was ab ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-28
The pan-democrats and the pro-establishment camp each won a seat in the by-elections for the Central and Western District Council held on Sunday. Bonnie Ng Hoi-yan, representing the Democratic Party, ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-27
With the Legco by-elections in the geographical constituencies of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon West and New Territories East scheduled for March next year, the pro-establishment camp is firing on all cyl ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-27
... r than on pro-growth economic reforms. Now that Abe's party (the LDP) and its coalition partner (Komei) have secured a two-thirds majority in the lower house, we do not expect a dramatic fiscal expans ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-27
... ts own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People’s Government, to prohibit foreign political organizations or bodies from conducting political activiti ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-27
