A friend of mine recently posted close-up pictures online of the dishes on offer at a Fanling eatery that is known for pork knuckles. The images prompted me to make a trip myself to the restaurant. W ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-01
Amicable political ties notwithstanding, Hong Kong and Singapore are a perfect pair of frenemies, with the cities squaring off against each other on almost all economic fronts. Prior to its return to ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-31
“Walking 20,000 steps a day” or “losing 50 lbs. in five months” are just fantasies for ordinary office workers in Hong Kong. But miracles do happen. To my amazement, my friend made the impossible poss ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-25
I only learned of Hong Kong hitting extremely hot weather after browsing some news websites. Oh, well, I could imagine the excruciatingly hot and humid weather, and I have to admit I was lucky as I wa ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-25
Macau's leader, Fernando Chui Sai-on, apologized to the public for his government's poor handling of Typhoon Hato, which killed at least nine people, injured more than 200 and left large parts of the ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-25
Following its introduction in Hong Kong in April, bike-sharing service GoBee.Bike has been confronted with alleged criminal damage and security loopholes of its mobile application that may leak privat ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-25
Hong Kong has entered its one-year countdown towards the inauguration of the local section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong express rail, and the government has waged a full-blown PR campaign canva ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-18
After 36 years of service, the McDonald’s restaurant at Yue Man Square in Kwun Tong is set to close in two weeks as redevelopment work at the town center gathers pace. At exactly 8 p.m. on Aug. 30, th ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-16
A fire broke out at an industrial building in Kwai Chung, killing three people and highlighting the problem of subdivided flats again. The fire occurred on the 10th floor of Mai Sik Industrial Buildin ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-14
To build a people-oriented livable city, urban planning is one of the key areas while Geographic Information System (GIS) application is an indispensable tool. GIS links data and geographic distributi ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-14
What happened in China in 1949? Was it "liberation" (解放) from a corrupt regime and two centuries of foreign domination? Or was it a "catastrophe" (淪陷) that led to a one-party dictatorship whose polici ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-08
One of the major meteor showers of 2017 will blaze through the sky over Hong Kong this coming weekend. Perseids, which astronomers believe produces more fireballs than any other major annual meteor sh ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-07
The digital wallet trend appears to be unstoppable. According to a recent report by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the number of P2P payments in Hong Kong has grown rapidly, hitting a record HK$537 ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-04
China’s overseas direct investment (ODI) plunged in the first half of this year as government measures to reduce foreign investments began to bite. Non-financial ODI fell 45.8 percent to US$48.19 bill ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-02
Every square foot of land in Hong Kong is pricey. In what could be the city’s single largest transaction on bicycle parking space, a group of property investors is said to have paid HK$7.69 million to ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-01
What do tyrants and other enemies of liberty do when they come across a law that threatens to stop them getting their way? First, they start bleating over "unnecessary legal obstacles". Then they emph ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-28
At the end of June, the signing ceremony of the collaborative agreement on the Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) took place. The agreement was signed by Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung, on behalf of the W ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-28
MPA does not, as the Hong Kong government asserts, stand for "mainland port area" but "mainland power acquisition". Realpolitik means that the Communist Party of China can do whatever it likes with an ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-28
China's bond market is developing rapidly. Over the years, the market has seen increased issuance and heightened investor interest. Still at the same time, the market has witnessed turbulence: Moody’s ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-28
