Parallel importers in Sheung Shui district have been using public buses to transport goods after MTR Corp., Hong Kong's railway operator, tightened passenger luggage restrictions. Most drivers are hel ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-26
A joint operation between Hong Kong and Guangdong authorities has helped smash a syndicate that was smuggling Vietnamese workers illegally into Hong Kong, Metro Daily reported Wednesday. The operation ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-21
The Hong Kong government seems to believe offering more entertainment to youngsters can help shift their attention from the desire for true democracy and encourage them to support the authorities. But ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-20
Bringing internet access to the remotest parts of the world is one great challenge that has captured the imagination of some of the world's top technology behemoths. Which is understandable. They won' ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-20
The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups has teamed up with a generous landlady to offer keen entrepreneurs aged between 18 and 35 a ground-floor shop space for a nominal rent of HK$1 per month, the A ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-19
Hong Kong people who have migrated to Taiwan advise those who want to follow them to think very carefully. They said it is hard to find a job, wages are stagnant and below those in Hong Kong and socie ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-15
A jump in rent is forcing Australia’s Dymocks to close its flagship bookstore in Hong Kong, Apple Daily reported Monday. Dymocks is paying HK$570,000 in monthly rent for the 4,000 square meter space o ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
Only a year ago, Shanghai police won public approbation for its competent handling of the huge crowd that gathered at the city's waterfront area to celebrate the coming of 2014. By official estimates, ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-06
Wong Chuk Hang, an industrial neighborhood to the east of Aberdeen on Hong Kong Island, is set have a new commercial building that will allocate a significant portion of its floor space for arts and c ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
Chinese tourists are back in the media glare following fresh incidents of unseemly behavior, this time on airplanes, adding to their already bad reputation in the global travel community. Last week, a ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-19
It’s impossible to determine who in the Umbrella Movement shed the first drop of blood. But after police began to resort more frequently to violence, many protesters have been subjected to an onslaugh ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-09
In the working-class neighbourhood of Sham Shui Po, the buildings are packed together tightly. A person on the street wouldn't know that on the roofs above, thousands of people live in ramshackle and ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
The ten-week-old Occupy campaign continues to be the main taking point in the student community in Hong Kong, but just across the border in Shenzhen there is an entirely different thing that is occupy ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
Shoots of a "sharing economy" have been silently growing in the city, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Monday. Good Lab, a shared work space founded two years ago to enable young people to deve ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
Australia has had enough of "distressed" nationals making outrageous demands at its missions abroad. The government is cracking down on the practice after several of its embassies were forced to deal ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-04
Remember the children's bedtime story about the three little pigs who build houses made of straw, wood and bricks, and only the brick house is able keep away the big bad wolf? It's only a fairy tale, ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
A couple of weeks ago, IHS Jane’s, a leading British publishing company specializing in military topics, reported that China was reclaiming land at Fiery Cross Reef in the South China Sea and was tran ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
One of the most frightening scenes in the sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey is when the spaceship's computer HAL 9000 attempts to kill the two astronauts on board by convincing them to do a space-w ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
Saturday’s elections in Taiwan were the worst electoral result for the Kuomintang since it arrived on the island in 1949. They were also a heavy defeat for Beijing and its strategy for reunification. ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
Everyone knows the Chinese Central Government’s Liaison Office exerts a lot of influence over how Hong Kong is run, but not too many people realize that it is also a heavyweight player in the local pr ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
