Once the favorite TV network of mainland viewers, Phoenix TV has been going through difficult times in recent years, with both its ratings and ad revenues falling into continuous decline. To make thin ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-27
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, who is stepping down from Hong Kong's top job in less than two weeks, said his biggest challenge in the last five years was to exercise patience during the 79-day Occu ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-15
Phoenix TV is applying for a Hong Kong digital terrestrial television license. The 20-year-old Hong Kong-based Mandarin-Cantonese broadcaster will undergo a corporate restructuring if its application ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-20
A well-known Chinese human rights lawyer has been released on bail in the mainland after she purportedly "confessed" to some wrongdoings. Wang Yu (王宇), 45, who was arrested by mainland police in Jul ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-02
Three of the five missing Hong Kong booksellers could return to Hong Kong from mainland China on bail in the near future, mainland news website The Paper and Phoenix Television reported late Sunday ni ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
Cash-for-crash scams, in which people stage fake accidents to extort money from scared car drivers, have been fairly common in some Chinese cities in recent years. Now a Chinese national has recently ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-06
Gundam, a popular Japanese animation series, has just been made part of Japan's Self-Defense Forces in a Chinese official video. The mix-up was apparently made by an over-eager video editor of state b ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
A television host with Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV has been given a suspended jail sentence and fined HK$5,500 (US$709) for cigarette smuggling. Ma Bin, a former presenter with state broadcaster CCTV, ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-16
Chan Zuo'er, former deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, said Macau was able to pass a national security law in 2009, ahead of Hong Kong, although it returned to China two years ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said at a closed-door forum on Saturday that the government cannot just try to soothe young people and play the good guy in front of them. Instead, he said, it should h ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-24
Hong Kong is a small island, but it has a big appetite for stocks. By contrast, although mainland China is huge, it seems to like smaller stocks. These are a couple of observations from the landmark d ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-18
Most Hong Kong people believe Asia Television (ATV) has completed its "historical duty" as a free TV broadcaster and should make way for other players to bring in investment and innovation to rejuvena ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-26
A Hong Kong woman has been placed in a hospital isolation ward after complaining of Ebola-like symptoms. The woman recently returned from a trip to Africa where the deadly Ebola virus has killed more ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-30
