In one of the biggest events at this year’s Hong Kong Book Fair, former Taiwan culture minister Lung Ying-tai said governments should tell the truth about their own history. The longer they put it off ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
At the stall of the Cosmos bookshop at the Hong Kong Book Fair, business is brisk. Customers are crowding around the piles of books, many of them on sale at a discount. “I come to the book fair every ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
A US spacecraft sailed past the tiny planet Pluto in the distant reaches of the solar system on Tuesday, capping a journey of three billion miles (4.88 billion km) that began nine and a half years ago ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
Leading group-buying site Meituan.com is finally responding to a flurry of reports involving its own finances and a new challenge from top search engine firm Baidu Inc. Meituan has released data that ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
Parents may have to spend up to HK$4,700 (US$606) for secondary one textbooks this year. Apple Daily compared prices from 44 secondary schools and found that TWGH Mrs. Wu York Yu Memorial College has ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
On July 2, Secretary for Economic and Finance Lionel Leong announced that Macau would initiate austerity measures if gaming revenue in the month did not reach 18.35 billion patacas (US$2.3 billion). H ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
The Hong Kong Museum of Art, which is located near the waterfront in Tsim Sha Tsui, will be closed from August 3 for a major renovation and expansion project. Under a HK$930 million project, the museu ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
China’s new national security law, enacted last week by the National People’s Congress, the country’s parliament, is worrying on several levels, both because of what it says and because of what is lef ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
The Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTR) admitted this week that the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) will run over budget by HK$20 billion (US$2.6 billion), in part as a result ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
With the veto of the 2017 election package at the Legislative Council last month, Hong Kong can set aside the long-running rift in society, at least for now. The bungled walkout by members of the pro- ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
Despite US accusations that China is engaged in rampant cyber aggression, not all Chinese hackers are out to pilfer and destroy. As Chinese companies grapple with a sharp increase in the number of cyb ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-29
In 1961, when the United States was faced with the threat of falling behind the Soviet Union in the space race, president John Kennedy called for a program to put a man on the moon before the end of t ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-29
Hong Kong politics seems to specialize in making things worse, especially when it comes to matters of personal integrity. This generalization has now been validated by Jasper Tsang Yok-sing, the pres ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-27
Online video superstar Leshi Internet Information & Technology (LeTV, 300104.CN) is quickly learning the lessons of gravity. Its formerly surging shares have suddenly shifted into reverse amid cla ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-24
Taiwan plans to send people to Hong Kong and Macau next month to publicise a new scheme to attract entrepreneurs and innovators to emigrate to the island. On June 11, the Ministry of the Interior anno ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-16
Hengqin island in the southern city of Zhuhai is Macau's nearest neighbor. Instead of trying to compete with Macau, Hengqin thrives by playing a complementary role to Asia’s gaming hub. Hengqin has be ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-16
For several years now, Hong Kong has been putting in place various tax measures to discourage mainland Chinese from buying property in the city. Taiwan, too, has put up hurdles to make it difficult fo ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-10
Kowloon Motor Bus Co. Ltd. (KMB) has been engulfed by scandals recently. First, a female bus captain was caught on camera having no idea how to operate the handbrake in her vehicle, suggesting poor tr ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
The online world is a free-for-all when it comes to dissemination of crazy ideas and rumors. This week some netizens displayed unusual creativity as they circulated rumors that Manulife Financial has ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-05
It is no secret that Beijing and Hong Kong authorities have been trying to use the education system to promote Chinese nationalism among Hong Kong youth and make the students more "patriotic". But the ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-02
