Some days ago, I had lunch with my friend at a Thai restaurant, where the head chef is a Westerner and most of the waiting staff are Thais. Situated on Stone Nullah Lane in Wan Chai, Samsen (泰麵) is al ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-11
... e Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park. Although reclamation in Victoria Harbour should be avoided, the government should remain flexible when implementing the Protection of Harbor Ordinance if the use of some s ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-26
Marine police rescued an overstaying Indonesian domestic helper who jumped into the waters off Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park in the Western District in the early hours of Tuesday, news website hk01.com re ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-21
... s of Chineseness? Beijing may not realize it but that’s what it's doing. The flag of Chiang Kai-shek is clearly a Chinese flag. In fact, Beijing today uses the Nationalist-drawn dotted line in the Sou ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-13
... e Amartya Sen points out, would be as simple as many assume if welfare beneficiaries are “unreacting”, “passive” and “languid” recipients waiting for their handouts, and if poverty is just a matter of ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-18
... patriotic senior officials at the Leisure and Cultural Services Department have demanded that the word "national" be removed from the name of the Taipei National University of the Arts on leaflets for ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-30
... . Sun Yat-sen Historical Trail. -- Contact us at [email protected] JP/RA ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-24
... face jail sentences. Meanwhile, politicians, including those from the democratic bloc, have dissociated themselves from the protesters. Now, let us bear in mind that when history charts a new course, ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-24
Hong Kong-born American economist Steven Cheung Ng-sheong (張五常) recently gave a speech at Guangzhou's Sun Yat-sen University, pointing out that the Chinese economy is in a deep crisis. During the spe ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-26
... ute by passenger traffic: 5.1 million flew between Hong Kong and Taipei in 2014. The route is a cash cow for both Cathay Pacific and China Airlines, Taiwan’s flag carrier, yet not so many may remember ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
... his. They sensed his problems and they were nice to him. But they had their own business to take care of. They needed to keep floating. After school, his classmates darted towards tutorial centers to ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
November 12 marks the 149th anniversary of the birth of Dr Sun Yat-sen. Events will be held in all parts of the Chinese world on the day, while next year will see even bigger celebrations on his 150th ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
... policy loosening fits well into that thinking. Yet the fact is that decades of stringent birth control have distorted China’s demographic pattern, with the two gravest challenges being a rapidly aging ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-03
History buffs and heritage preservation advocates are expressing concern at the poor state of the facilities at some of the spots on the Dr Sun Yat-sen Historical Trail in Hong Kong. An inspection rec ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-22
... nativist sentiment, and the common attitude of Hongkongers toward the Chinese Communist Party has also shifted from a kind of subliminal phobia to firm resistance in action. Significantly fewer Hongk ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-19
... o Sun Yat-sen Place, where they stood for a minute in silence. Around 30 teaching staff wore their academic gowns while the others were dressed in black, Apple Daily reported. The rally came a week af ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-07
... dent representative to the council, later cited various reasons including that Chan does not have a doctoral degree. Law professor Lusina Ho and three other colleagues are organizing the protest which ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-06
... has been sentenced to three-and-a-half months in jail for doing that but who chose to suffer in silence. Feng Jing-en, chairman of the HKU student union, who led the charge into the council chamber, ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-05
... ister Hun Sen ordered the filing of charges against him. Last week he issued a statement expressing his "deep regrets" over the incident and offered to pay the victim 408.8 million Cambodian riel (US$ ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
... f Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou where she received a journalism diploma. Ming Pao Daily is reporting that Wang walked up to the rostrum with a rainbow flag, symbol of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bis ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
