An 86-year-old man narrowly escaped from being cheated out of HK$20,000 by a phone scammer, thanks to the alertness of some currency exchange shop personnel. According to a report received by the poli ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-27
It's fairly clear that Beijing does not want Sixtus Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching in the Legislative Council, so it's marshaling its surrogates to stop them being sworn in a third time. The game plan ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-25
If you are a fan of the late pop singer Michael Jackson, you'll remember his iconic 45-degree lean in the video for the hit song 'Smooth Criminal'. Well, a street sign in Hong Kong's Yuen Long distri ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-25
Police are investigating an incident in which a shotgun went off at the Mong Kok police station. The Remington Model 870 fired after it was loaded by a female emergency unit officer in the armory, new ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-18
The Philippine consulate general in Hong Kong has recommended a mandatory monthly meal allowance of HK$1,000 for domestic helpers. The move comes after it received complaints from helpers that they ar ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-17
An 82-year-old man suffering from dementia was found to have stayed with the corpse of his 56-year-old daughter for three days at their flat in Tuen Mun. Police found the woman's body on the balcony o ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-14
Police have arrested four men suspected to be pickpockets who victimize bus passengers and pedestrians. The men, aged 29 to 49, were described by police as South American, according to Sing Tao Daily. ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-13
A Filipino musician working at Hong Kong Disneyland was sentenced to 20 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent assault. Edwin Santos Esguerra, 53, said he was drunk when he c ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-12
A 24-year-old female domestic helper jumped from the rooftop of an apartment building at Avignon, a residential estate in Tuen Mun, on Sunday. Police investigators found a letter on the site, apparent ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-11
Police have advised people returning home from work late at night to be extra careful with their personal safety following two disturbing incidents this week of women being tasered and robbed. In the ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-07
A mainland father is under fire after a video of his son urinating on a red carpet at the venue of the recent G20 summit in Hangzhou surfaced online. The video taker, surnamed Bao, said the incident h ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-06
MTR Corp. is refusing to introduce female-only carriages despite increasing complaints about harassment and attacks against women. Hong Kong's mass railway operator said it has no plans to change it ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-03
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
