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
Po Leung Kuk is set to apply for funding from the government to build a massive youth hostel in Yuen Long, Sing Tao Daily reported Friday, citing James Chan Yum-min, the charity's chief executive. In ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data has launched an investigation into several websites and mobile applications suspected of contravening its rules by collecting excessive data fr ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-02
A Facebook post about a bus driver who tried to stop a guide dog from boarding with its owner last Friday has gone viral on social media. According to a Sing Tao Daily report, a visually impaired woma ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-02
The owner of playgroup operator Bambini Republic, which suddenly closed all of its five outlets in Hong Kong in late November, was arrested by customs officers on Monday, Sing Tao Daily reported. Tom ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
The domestic helper of Francis Mak Yun-sau, former president of Digital Broadcasting Corp. (DBC), was on Wednesday cleared in a theft case after earlier being accused of stealing 3.2 million Korean Wo ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-26
Sixty cases on in-flight theft were reported in Hong Kong in the nine months to September, a 25 percent rise from the whole of 2014. The stolen items were estimated to be worth a combined HK$4.45 mill ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
Although gaming revenues in Macau have fallen more than 35 percent in the past year, Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai-on has proposed a handout of 9,000 patacas (US$1,127) in cash to each permanent r ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
