A 23-year-old renovation worker was arrested after driving his car containing explosive materials to the Wong Tai Sin Police Station on Monday evening. The suspect, surnamed Shih, admitted that he cou ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-08
Claims by a rail passenger that he saw a man carrying a pistol-like object on an MTR train prompted authorities to call in the police's Counter Terrorism Response Unit (CTRU) on Wednesday. According t ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-08
The three Hong Kong youngsters who were arrested in Thailand on Sunday for trying to smuggle cocaine into the Southeast Asian country were unlikely to be first-timers in the drug trade, Sing Tao Daily ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-08
A zoo in east China’s Jiangsu province has confirmed an incident in which a live donkey was fed to captive tigers, blaming it on “radical behavior” by a shareholder. The incident took place on Monday ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-07
Three young Hongkongers were arrested in Thailand for trying to smuggle 12.3 kilograms of cocaine worth about HK$11 million (US$1.41 million). Because the amount of drugs they were carrying exceeds 10 ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-07
Two drug rings operating in Yau Ma Tei and Tsim Sha Tsui were believed to have been smashed following a series of police raids that resulted in the arrest of six men of Pakistani descent over the week ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-05
Three men, aged between 21 and 27, face murder charges for the death of a 20-year-old war games enthusiast in the early hours of Sunday, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. The body of the victim, ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
Hong Kong marine police arrested five illegal immigrants from Vietnam, including a one-year-old girl, aboard a motorized boat off Sai Kung on Tuesday morning. Two suspected mainland human smugglers we ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
A former Chinese table tennis player claimed he was innocent after a casino in Singapore sued him in Hong Kong for owing it a gambling debt and asking him to pay the money back, Sing Tao Daily reports ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
Three men were arrested on suspicion of working for a criminal syndicate that used fake credit cards to buy luxury goods and resold them for profit. Those arrested were a 25-year-old mainland man surn ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-26
A Beijing woman suffered injuries after a drinking glass exploded in her face. The woman, surnamed Wang, said she bought the Stelna glass from an IKEA store in Beijing's Xihongmen district about a yea ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-25
Hong Kong has seen a surge in arrivals of teenagers from the mainland under the so-called one-way permit scheme for immigrants, official data suggests. Last year, 10,538 people aged between 10 and 19 ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-25
A 38-year-old illegal immigrant from Bangladesh died after falling from a steep cliff in Kau Ling Chung on Lantau Island amid a downpour on Wednesday morning, Apple Daily reports. The man was among a ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-25
Police are investigating a traffic accident in Yuen Long in which a 75-year-old woman of Nepali origin was killed. The accident took place at about 3 p.m. Monday, when the woman carrying several bags ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-23
A retired man, said to be heavily burdened by debt, strangled his wife before jumping to his death from their rented flat in Tseung Kwan O. The elderly couple's daughter returned to their home on the ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-19
Burglars raided two apartments under renovation in Sau Mau Ping and North Point, taking advantage of the scaffolding left outside the units. In the first incident, a 37-year-old man surnamed Lau retur ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-17
Hong Kong police have raised an alert after at least six people fell victim to swindlers posing as police officers in the mainland in just three days last week. Four women and two men, five of whom ar ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-15
Customs authorities have seized HK$21.5 million worth of cannabis buds at a warehouse in Tsuen Wan and arrested three men who had come to pick up the drugs. Officials said the drugs were intended for ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-10
A South Korean exchange student was arrested in Hong Kong on Tuesday after he allegedly tried to sexually assault a female classmate after imbibing marijuana. The student, aged 21, is also accused of ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-10
