Live coral has practically been wiped out at Hoi Ha in Sai Kung, am730 Daily News reported Thursday, citing The Professional Commons. The think tank said the coral cover -- a measure of the proportion ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-28
The case of the five missing booksellers has now become an international issue. It's not just because two of the personalities involved are foreign nationals, or because it could be a violation of the ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-26
Missing bookseller Lee Bo and his wife met in a hotel in an undisclosed location in mainland China over the weekend, and he handed a letter addressed to the police saying he was safe and free, Hong Ko ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
Grab your warmest woollens and be prepared for a blast of winter chill in the next few days. Confirming previous forecasts, the Hong Kong Observatory issued a cold weather warning Thursday, predicting ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
An Indonesian domestic helper has been arrested on drugs charges after her employer reported her suspicious behavior to the police, Sing Tao Daily reported over the weekend. The maid, a 37-year-old wh ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
What would you do if you were caught on camera making out in a public park? Stop and leave? Or get up and go after the interloper? A pair of smitten lovers apparently were so worried they might end up ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-14
A lawmaker has slammed the Immigration Department for ignoring a call for help from a Filipino maid who said she was taken to mainland China by her Hong Kong employer to work, Sing Tao Daily reported ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-13
Police have arrested 31 suspected triad members who gathered at a housing complex in Tin Shui Wai in preparation for an armed conflict between rival factions of the gang. The detainees, who were betwe ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
Police have dismissed claims made in some online audio clips about purported robberies by knife-wielding South Asians. There is no truth in the allegations that "fake refugees" are accosting people w ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-08
A man who claimed to be a plainclothes police officer approached and searched a schoolboy on his way home from school near the Nam Cheong MTR station in Sham Shui Po, Sing Tao Daily reported Thursday. ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-07
The Hei Ling Chau Correctional Institution saw prisoners stage a sit-in on Monday in a protest against disciplinary action taken by authorities recently on some inmates found in possession of unauthor ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-07
Virgin Atlantic Airways officials are preparing to hold discussions with representatives of a Hong Kong flight attendants union following a row over some laid-off cabin crew. Talks will begin Wednesda ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-06
A four-decade-old bronze statue has gone missing from a Buddhist temple in Tsuen Wan, prompting an investigation by the police. A security guard at the Western Monastery discovered Sunday that the 2-f ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-04
China's hoi polloi can now have a taste of the sumptuous banquets that their leaders give out to visiting foreign dignitaries. The Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, a historic hotel complex in Beijing that ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-23
A female clerk stole more than HK$1.5 million (US$193,495) from a law firm by forging signatures on 30 checks to please a young barrister. The 51-year-old employee, surnamed Lam, was arrested in Nove ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-23
Villagers in a remote county in northern China's Hebei province will welcome the new year with broad smiles in their faces after sharing in a year-end bonus totalling more than 10 million yuan (US$1.5 ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-22
Hong Kong's population is expected to hit 7.76 million in 10 years, more than half of which will be in the New Territories. That means the New Territories will have 460,000 more people in the next dec ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
A Hong Kong judge has denied bail to a Gambian man who has been accused of attempted rape of a 63-year-old woman in Tuen Mun on Sunday. The man, who is 33 years in age, tried to sexually assault the e ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
The Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong and Macau commemorated Sunday the sacrifices Canadian soldiers and other Allied and local forces made during the Battle of Hong Kong and in the subsequent ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
Lawmaker Christopher Cheung Wah-fung, who represents the financial services constituency in the Legislative Council, became the victim of a phone scam, losing 90,000 yuan (US$14,063) to a person who c ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
