Prior to Sunday's chief executive election, many Hongkongers had entertained the belief that John Tsang could pull an upset and win. His supporters, including those who formed the large crowds at his ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-29
A secondary school student who jaywalked because she didn't want to be late for an exam was hit by a school bus on Tuesday morning in Quarry Bay. The 13-year-old schoolgirl, surnamed Chan, escaped dea ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-29
A woman arrived home in time to save her estranged husband and their children from an apparent murder-suicide by smoke inhalation. The incident happened Tuesday in Tsuen Wan when the man, surnamed Che ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-22
Police have arrested a man and a woman suspected of working for a syndicate and acting as recipients of parcels containing thousands of bullets. The arrests came after employees at Asia Airfreight Ter ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-22
A cross-dressing man who was collared by police on Sunday after attempting to rob a fashion boutique in Central turns out to have served over 28 years in jail for a series of failed heists. The 48-yea ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-21
A 48-year-old man thought it was easier for him to rob a store by disguising himself as a woman, but it turned out not the case. Police said the suspect, surnamed Lee, walked into a boutique on Aberde ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-20
Two men were arrested on Tuesday for pickpocketing on a KMB bus after several days of surveillance by the police. The suspects, surnamed He and Chao, both 43, entered Hong Kong from Hunan province on ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-16
Police have smashed a syndicate that used foreign domestic helpers to obtain fraudulent loans from finance companies. On Wednesday, officers from the Commercial Crime Bureau arrested a 54-year-old Nep ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-16
Thousands of elderly people die before they could be given a place in care homes. In 2015, a total of 5,881 seniors passed away without being assigned to an elderly facility, up 18 percent from 2011, ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-15
Many consumers prefer organic vegetables, although they cost more, because they are grown naturally without the use of chemicals and therefore are considered safer and healthier to eat. However, a rec ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-13
Humor or racial prejudice? A Chinese netizen living in the United States took umbrage after coming across a German website that sells custom T-shirts with slogans that he found insulting to his race, ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-10
An Indonesian woman was arrested after she received a parcel containing 250 grams of cocaine hidden in 10 bottles of skin cream. The postal package arrived at the Chek Lap Kok airport from Brazil on M ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-09
ViuTV will start airing an English channel called ViuTVsix on March 31, a year after the television station was officially launched, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. ViuTV said its new English ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-07
Beijing’s top leaders are not expected to announce their "anointed" candidate in the March 26 chief executive election. But what's surprising is that the pan-democrats, while saying that they will sup ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-07
An 80-year-old man died after trying to save his wife who fell off their motorized sampan. The man, surnamed Cheung, had jumped off the boat to try to save his drowning wife after she slipped and fell ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-07
