“Having lived in Tseung Kwan O for a few years, I can honestly say that living in prison is probably more bearable.” That’s my friend's tongue-in-cheek response when I, a Kennedy Town resident, told h ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-28
... acqueline Kennedy in the aftermath of the assassination of her husband US President John F. Kennedy. The special jury prize went to Ana Lily Amirpour's cannibal-survivor fairytale The Bad Batch. While ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-12
... n June in Kennedy Town, everything was in place. Its owners made sure it lived up to its name in look, feel and taste. The restaurant is wrapped in turquoise and features rich wood paneling and bamboo ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-09
Breweries are popping up all over the city, and craft beer bars are taking up sizeable spaces in areas ranging from Kennedy Town to Ap Lei Chau. Not seen on this scale before, craft brewers are creati ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-08
... Tsui and Kennedy Town. The Korean International School, founded in 1988, is located in Sai Wan Ho. The Hong Kong government is preparing to set up an economic and trade office, a quasi-embassy, in Se ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-29
... t John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday night and was released on Wednesday on a US$1 million bond following a court hearing, the report said. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
Saturday's Kennedy Town fire which killed four people may have been started deliberately. Public broadcaster RTHK is citing early investigations by the Fire Services Department which indicate the poss ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-18
More than 5,000 people have signed up on a petition to express their objection to a planned demolition of the Cadogan Street Temporary Garden in Kennedy Town. The park had been incorporated into a Ke ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-11
... . John F. Kennedy misled the public about the withdrawal of US nuclear warheads from Turkey in the deal that peacefully ended the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Moreover, Franklin D. Roosevelt lied to ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-08
A handful of residents in the Western District have camped out at the Cadogan Street Temporary Garden in Kennedy Town to oppose the government’s decision to demolish the recreational facility, Apple D ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-18
... f John F. Kennedy’s administration. Later, the CIA was given the green light to assassinate Castro. In 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev decided to forestall another US invasion – and teach the U ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-23
... like Mark Kennedy, former head of strategy, subsidiaries and associates, Asia Pacific, at HSBC, would address Mak as Mrs. Lee, while local customers usually called her the “female boss”. Mak’s family ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
... t John F. Kennedy to make his point: "Our problems are man-made, therefore they can be solved by man." -- Contact us at [email protected] SC/AC/RA ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-25
I’ve been living in Kennedy Town for nearly 10 years. I like it because it’s quiet and away from the noisy central districts. However, the government is destroying the peaceful life here. After req ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
... living in Kennedy Town have an average open space of only 0.77 square meter, which is less than half the size of a coffin. This is expected to further narrow to 0.68 square meter because the Developme ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
... t John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech was 1,366 words. Twitter may launch the service toward the end of the first quarter but has not set an official date, Re/code said, citing sources familiar with th ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-06
... merged in Kennedy Town. Residents there were annoyed to learn of the government’s plan to build housing blocks on the site of a tiny public garden – a temporary one, at that – and vowed to challenge i ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-05
... n John F. Kennedy said in 1961 that "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth," t ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
John F. Kennedy would have been 98 today if he had not been cut down by an assassin one sunny November day in 1963. Few of us remember the time and the uncertainty that a vacant few minutes after the ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-20
We know how to eradicate polio. Since the 1980s, an international vaccination effort led by the World Health Organization has driven the virus to the cusp of extinction. A disease that killed or paral ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-26
