A Legislative Council panel failed to proceed with a meeting to deliberate on the government's controversial co-location scheme for the cross-border Express Rail Link after pro-democracy lawmakers sta ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-04
Professor Benny Tai Yiu-ting, one of the leaders of the 2014 Occupy Movement, said Beijing wants to make him an example to push Hong Kong to legislate Article 23 of the Basic Law on national security, ...More
EJ Insight2018-04-03
... flagship products, Mi Mix 2S and P20 series respectively. On the same day, Apple hosted a press event at a Chicago school with the launch of new entry-level iPad and a series of education-related app ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-29
... orts. Two pro-establishment lawmakers, Elizabeth Quat Pui-fan from the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong and Michael Luk Chung-hung from the Hong Kong Federation of Trad ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-29
... to get approved by the government, she remains very determined to press ahead with her legal challenge. And so it appears the pan-dems’ plan to secure the next by-elections by the end of the summer h ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-29
... sing on improving its finances rather than international expansion. After burning cash through aggressive forays into various markets, the company has redrawn its strategy as it prepares for an initia ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-27
... ising the prospect of Abe's early retirement and the demise of his economic blueprint – Abenomics. Fallout from this saga reached its peak last July, when Abe's public approval rating dropped to 35 pe ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-26
The Department of Home Affairs has set up a task force to review the government’s existing policy on “private recreational leases” (PRLs). On Wednesday last week the task force proposed several new ar ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-23
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
