Cuba's former president, Fidel Castro, died on Nov. 25 at the age of 90. The iconic leader had been seriously ill for years, and his younger brother and successor, President Raul Castro, has been run ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-29
At least 14 people were injured in a flying competition organized by energy drink Red Bull at the old Kai Tak airport runway on Sunday. Four required hospitalization, with the condition of two female ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-28
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
German auto giant Daimler AG has sacked a top executive for China after he reportedly made insulting comments about Chinese people in a row over parking space in Beijing. Accounts of the incident, whi ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-22
Page One's outlets in Festival Walk and Harbour City officially closed on Thursday, signalling the end of the struggling bookstore chain in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. A notice ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-18
Police officers are accused of applying excessive force on a woman stall owner who was arrested over a carton box found outside her stall in Sha Tin. The 53-year-old woman, surnamed Wan, was wailing a ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-14
On Monday, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) will announce that Sixtus Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching are barred from taking their seats in the Legislative Council because ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-07
Paris already has a funny name for the beneficiaries of its new initiative: les Parisculteurs, but there’s no harvest yet. The City Council has promised Parisians some 30 hectares to cultivate by 2020 ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
Take a look at the one of KUKA’s latest videos promoting its small robot series and you will be amazed at how good they have become. The machine highlights its two killer features -- extreme speed and ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-03
Nothing lasts forever. Fashion retailer Forever 21 is to withdraw from its Causeway Bay mega flagship store, billed as the most expensive commercial store by rent in Hong Kong. The iconic location on ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-02
One reason why mankind wants to explore space and conquer new worlds must be the skyrocketing cost of living on this planet, especially in this city. Don’t you feel a bit downtrodden to know that a tw ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-25
Ngau Tau Kok? The name doesn’t easily trip off the English-speaking tongue. It has neither the quick understanding of Kowloon Bay – which everyone knows how to pronounce – nor the rising recognition o ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-24
How does Hong Kong fare in terms of walkability? I joined a group of volunteers to score the walkability of four districts, using a number of criteria including pedestrian safety, waste management and ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-20
Twenty-five-year-old Yau Wai-ching, Hong Kong’s youngest female legislator, promises not to succumb to pressure even though she is beset with controversies. At her swearing-in last week, she triggered ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-19
I will always be wondering why Uber decided to quit Hong Kong when this is the place where its service is most needed. After all, Hong Kong car owners are among the least privileged, long-suffering gr ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-17
China launched a two-man space mission, Shenzhou 11, on Monday, taking the country closer to its ambition of setting up a permanent manned space station by 2022. After Monday's launch at 7:30 a.m. in ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-17
Four in 10 Hong Kong people want to live overseas, but most of them are unable to make up their mind and act on their plans because of various difficulties, a survey finds. In the survey conducted by ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-12
US President Barack Obama says efforts are under way to build habitats that could help humans live long-term far from Earth, highlighting his pledge to send people to Mars by the 2030s. The mission is ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-12
Hong Kong's older generation apparently finds it hard to understand the youth's pessimism about the future. A recent survey conducted by AIESEC, an international non-profit organization for leadership ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-11
In these times of weak retail sales, an estate agent relied on creativity and humor to come up with an unconventional way of promoting a shop space in Central for lease. It worked. Using “Kongish”, or ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-07
