Regina Leung, the wife of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, has hit out at DAB chairperson Starry Lee over the latter's remarks in relation to the health condition of one of Leungs' daughters. Speaki ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-28
Enacting Article 23 of the Basic Law has proven to be a tough nut to crack for various Hong Kong chief executives since 1997. After Tung Chee-hwa's attempt to legislate Article 23 ended in disaster in ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-22
Since Leung Chun-ying announced last Friday that he would not seek a second term, Hong Kong has been in ferment as candidates step forward to take his place. But in Shanghai, China’s commercial capita ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-16
You may not be on the election committee, but that doesn't mean you can't have your say on who should be Hong Kong's next chief executive. The talk is getting more interesting because if you ask three ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-13
On Sunday, nearly 250,000 qualified voters will go to polling stations to pick their representatives for a 1,200-member-strong committee that will ultimately choose Hong Kong's next leader in 2017. Th ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-08
Beijing's interpretation of Article 104 of the Basic Law has provided the establishment camp with the means to kick out more independence advocates from the Legislative Council. This will give Chief E ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-24
Radical lawmaker “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung said he will appeal against the seven-day jail term handed to him by a court for disrupting an inter-school debate competition at Queen Elizabeth Stadium o ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-22
After the shock US presidential election result, many mainstream political analysts have referred to the Donald Trump victory as a case of "triumph of populism over meritocracy". There has also been m ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-17
Yeung Ming-cheung, the newly-appointed coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong, has waded into the debate over Beijing's recent controversial interpretation of Hong Kong's mini-constitution. Yeun ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-15
China has appointed a new finance minister who is expected to maintain an expansionary fiscal policy and push reforms to put a lid on rising debt levels in the economy. Xiao Jie, a former tax chief an ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-07
An attempt to stop a proposed musical fountain project in Kwun Tong has failed after the district council decided to go ahead with the plan. The proposal has been sent to the Legislative Council for r ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
The United States said it will seek an explanation from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte after he announced his "separation" from the US on Thursday. Duterte made his comments in Beijing, where he ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-21
Next month sees a conference on a highly specialized but potentially very important subject: the growth of shareholder activism in Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s stock market is similar to other leading marke ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-20
Just when many thought Hillary Clinton had scored a KO (knockout) against Donald Trump in their second debate, some people said they were more like singing an OK (karaoke) duet. Some creative netizens ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-13
甲、 昨天本報「兩岸消息」版準確扼要地報道了台灣總統蔡英文在雙十慶典的講話︰《堅定向前，讓國家因改革而偉大》， ...全文
This year marks not only the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, but also the 40th anniversary of the downfall of the “Gang of Four”. On Oct. 6, 1976, Marshal Ye Jianying (葉劍英 ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-07
Two prominent Chinese economists, Lin Yifu and Zhang Weiying, recently engaged in heated debates in public forums as well as in print and on social media about the government’s industrial policy. The ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-04
In his recent debate with his opponent Hillary Clinton, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pressed his claim that US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen is politically motivated. The Fed, T ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-04
Hong Kong's newly-elected legislators have begun taking up key social and political issues even though the lawmakers are yet to officially begin their term. Eddie Chu Hoi-dick, who secured a record 84 ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
