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
Flat rents on the East Rail Line are soaring but it's not due to speculation or end-users snapping up property. Hint: some of Hong Kong's top universities, such as Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hon ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-31
In a taxi to the China ferry terminal, the driver is eagerly sharing his ideas on political reform and blaming the government for the soaring property prices, saying his newly married son cannot affor ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-31
Walter Kwok, former chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. (SHKP) (00016.HK), sent threatening letters to deputy managing director Victor Lui over a lease agreement with an investment bank, Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-30
Husband: Honey, guess what? My popularity is rising. Wife: Honey, I am so happy for you. I kept my mouth shut, too. I know you didn't laugh, but that's meant to be a joke, about the morning the news c ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-30
It's not the color male motorists are objecting to; it's the purpose. They say they can tolerate the pink markings but the words inside them -- yes, they're also pink -- scream sex discrimination. The ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-22
Few have followed in their footsteps but 45 years later there's at least one way to imagine what it was like to be there. The US Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum is reliving via Twitter the e ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-21
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is grappling with a question writ large over an entire nation. Why? It is as much about Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, missing for more than 130 days, as it is ab ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-18
What a splendid way to spend a lazy afternoon -- have a haircut, then a late lunch in the same place. That's Hurwundeki, a Korean restaurant-cum-hairdresser that's fast gaining an enviable reputation ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-18
