The government has unveiled guidelines for private hospitals in a bid to improve transparency in the pricing practices of the institutions. Under a pilot scheme announced by the Food and Health Bureau ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
A Russian university professor is HK$640,000 (US$82,523) poorer after he fell for a get-rich-quick e-mail scam. The 66-year-old academic from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology told po ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
The Society for Community Organization (SCO), a non-governmental organization that focuses on human rights and community issues, is preparing to hold a photo exhibition that will throw a spotlight on ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-26
Nearly one in two Nepalese domestic helpers in Hong Kong are being exploited by their employers when it comes to wages, a survey has shown, pointing to the need for more efforts from authorities to pr ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-26
Two bus passengers in Hong Kong almost fell victim to a new breed of thieves who use paper cutters to slice open the trouser pockets of their targets. Sing Tao Daily reports that the pickpocket attemp ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-20
A recent exhibition of works by Leonardo da Vinci was almost perfect, with no less than Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University as host. The problem was an embarrassment of errors, mostly about the ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-20
When parents give a gift to their kid's teacher or principal, when is it just a token of appreciation and when is it considered a bribery attempt? The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-19
The Consumer Council said it has received 72 complaints relating to mobile games in the first eight months of this year, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. The disputes involved amounts totalling ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-15
A 52-year-old man has been arrested after he helped himself to thousands of dollars from ticket vending machines of commuter rail operator MTR Corp. The man, who is unemployed, was charged with theft ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-15
Almost four in 10 Hong Kong parents with young children admit they use social media frequently and this has affected their relationship with their children, a survey shows. The survey found that 35 pe ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-14
A man in Zhejiang province suffered serious burns after his Xiaomi phone exploded, the second such incident in five days. The victim, surnamed Lou, was carrying his Xiaomi 4C in his back pocket when i ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-12
A 47-year-old man plunged to his death from a multi-storey car park in Yau Ma Tei on Sunday night, injuring a female security guard who was walking on the ground, news website hk01.com reports. The po ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-12
This kind of emission is not expected to contribute to climate change, but it is fouling up the environment nonetheless. Residents of a residential building in Kwun Tong have won an injunction against ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-09
China has been urging its citizens to be on their best behavior while traveling overseas, but the entreaties seem to be falling on deaf ears. Mainland tourists continue to make news for all the wrong ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-08
A 42-year-old car owner surnamed Chan was dumbfounded when he received three parking violation tickets, totaling HK$960 in fines. He swears he never parked his car at the address mentioned in the pena ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-08
For more than four years after stepping down, former Hong Kong chief executive Donald Tsang stayed silent about damning allegations over his conduct in office. So when it was time to break his silence ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-08
The High Court on Wednesday rejected a request for an appeal of a lower court decision by building surveyor Woo Man-leung, who has demanded that her former girlfriend pay for a mattress originally pri ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-01
The German Swiss International School has sued a local educational institution for allegedly using a similar name with the intention of misleading the public, Apple Daily reports. In a civil case file ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-31
