A survey published recently found that 21 per cent of Hong Kong people are considering emigration because of the uncertainty over the future. One of the options on the table is Taiwan. According to fi ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-09
It was a hot summer afternoon in Beijing. My companion, a professor of politics at a city university, said: “In the US, there are two major parties. In fact, they are two sides of the same party. The ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-08
Hong Kong should work toward more autonomy from Beijing given its culture, history and political and economic systems which are different from those in mainland China, Ming Pao Daily reported Monday, ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-06
Weather permitting, Hong Kong should experience the coming total lunar eclipse in full view. There are no better vantage points than Shek O, High Island Reservoir East Dam or Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong's ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-25
Page One, the Singapore-based bookstore chain, is set to open a large flagship store at the Harbour City mall in Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui district, with the facility to include some food outlets as w ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-17
A couple of reports are shining a spotlight on some of the shenanigans happening at former social networking (SNS) superstar Weibo (WB.US), and also on its dimming prospects as it gets overtaken by mo ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-16
One in three internet users in Hong Kong is likely to join a frenzy on Tuesday morning for an iPhone 6, an airline ticket or an early-bird ticket to next year's Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon. ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-15
A decades-old traditional noodles shop in Hong Kong is facing closure as developer Lai Sun Group has successfully won a bid for compulsory sale of the premises, Ming Pao Daily News reported Thursday. ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-11
Many Hong Kong people are coming slowly to a reluctant acceptance of the deal offered by Beijing for the process of electing their Chief Executive in 2017 and the realization that they will never have ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-08
The Energizing Kowloon East office, an agency tasked with overseeing the development of Kowloon East in Hong Kong, plans to preserve some of the district's industrial color even as it transforms the a ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-08
Hong Kong people have often griped about the inconvenience caused by mainland visitors, blaming them for things such as crowded public transportation systems, traffic snarls and worse. Now, the compla ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-05
What is now the Mongkok Computer Centre Sports could become "Sneakers Center" if sports shoes retailer Wan Kee Group finalizes a deal to rent the building. The rent is HK$4 million (US$516,097) per mo ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-05
When the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) deadline expires next year, the world will be able to point to several important achievements since their launch in 2000. Extreme poverty has been halved du ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-03
Experts are trying to determine what went wrong after two satellites from Europe's Galileo satellite navigation program were sent into the wrong orbit, Agence France-Presse reported. The pair, launche ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-26
Around 43 percent of Hong Kong children from poor families live in a space smaller than 80 square feet and over 80 percent of them do not have study tables, Ming Pao Daily reported Monday, citing a re ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-25
Miss Lam and her boyfriend would rather wait for an hour for a metered parking space on Tung Choy Street in Mong Kok than cough up over HK$30 (US$3.90) for a space at the Langham Place carpark. For a ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-22
The Hong Kong Neuro-muscular Disease Association, a self-help non-profit charity group for people suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), has received donations worth more than HK$530,000 ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-22
More than two years ago, Xi'an, the capital of northwestern China's Shaanxi province with about 8.5 million people, promulgated a measure limiting the number of divorce registrations in the city to 15 ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-20
A growing number of civil servants in Shanghai are switching to homegrown encrypted smartphones to secure sensitive information, Shanghai Morning Post reported Wednesday. The State Cryptography Admini ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-14
Since last month, thousands of air passengers in China, especially those on the eastern routes, have been spending more time waiting at the airport than their trip would take. Flight delays have becom ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-06
