Dennis Tito, an American engineer-turned-multimillionaire, became the first space tourist in human history when he undertook a voyage in April 2001. He spent nearly eight days in low orbit, circling t ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-29
MTR Corp. has announced that all payphones installed inside MTR stations will be removed as the contract with service provider Shinetown Telecom is set to expire at the end of this month, Ming Pao Dai ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-29
Hong Kong's retail sector can bounce back from the current sluggish phase, as it did in the past in the wake of the 2003 SARS crisis and the 2008 global financial meltdown, an industry chief says. "Ho ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-28
Youngspiration, a political force for localism that emerged from last year's Umbrella Movement, did not do too badly in the recent district elections. Dr. Kwong Po-yin, one of its nine candidates, won ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-25
Chan Shuk-ying, principal of Hong Kong and Kowloon Chiu Chow Public Association Secondary School starting this school year, said she had never expected to become a headmistress so soon. Last year she ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-25
In the summer of 1986, you came as a twelve-year-old with your family from Fujian province to Hong Kong. Yet a month before your sixteenth birthday, you left home and went to Taiwan alone. You cut off ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
The operator of the Watermark restaurant at the Star Ferry pier in Central, has filed an application to privatize a 1,700 square foot public space and convert it into an al fresco dining area, Apple D ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-23
Fashion icon Esprit is making headlines again, this time for the profitable sale of its Hong Kong headquarters. The struggling retailer said it made a profit of HK$725 million (US$93.53 million) from ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-22
China responded with a knee-jerk reaction to the Obama Administration's announcement of a US$1.83 billion arms sales package for Taiwan, summoning the charge d’affaires at the American embassy for a d ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-22
Nearly 30 years have passed since the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, and the scientific community is still arguing about the impact radiation is having on the ecosystem surrounding the reactor. Recent ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-21
Anyone who knows San Francisco will probably be familiar with Lombard Street. In particular, they will know the famous one-block section on Russian Hill, where the roadway zigzags down the steep slope ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
Owners of sub-divided flats have found a new way to double their rental units -- they're sub-dividing them vertically, leaving just enough crawl space in them. One such flat is being rented to a 64-ye ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-14
Honda Motor Co. says it has won approval from US regulators for its US$4.5 million business jet. That clears the way for deliveries to begin by the end of the year, Bloomberg reports, citing a company ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-11
It's 11 p.m. and the lights are still on in its classrooms but don't let it surprise you. Queen's College is simply trying to provide space for students to do their revisions and hold group discussion ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-05
One evening last week, a mainland businessman who is a frequent flyer arrived at Hong Kong International Airport. After 40 minutes of arrival rituals following the landing at 10 p.m. – he had to climb ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
NATO allies plan to send patrol aircraft and missiles to strengthen Ankara's air defenses on its border with Syria, officials said, following Turkey's shooting-down of a Russian bomber. As NATO countr ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-02
World leaders launched an ambitious attempt to hold back rising temperatures, with the United States and China leading calls for the climate summit in Paris to mark a decisive turn in the fight agains ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
Manufacturing used to account for a quarter of Hong Kong's economic output at one time, but its share has now fallen to just around one percent. To revive the sector, businessmen are calling on the g ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-25
So how was the response to G.E.M.'s concert in London, the last stop of her World Tour? "G.E.M. Get Everybody Moving X.X.X. Live” was a tough act to follow, considering the Hong Kong pop diva charged ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-25
With the results being declared in Sunday's district council elections, political groups in Hong Kong will now begin a post-mortem in earnest. Although the overall outcome was along expected lines, wi ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-23
