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
A Nigerian man was arrested after police found a fake HK$1,000 (US$129) banknote on him in the room of a prostitute in Yau Ma Tei, Sing Tao Daily reported Wednesday. The suspect speaks fluent Putonghu ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
About 1.1 million tourists from Hong Kong visited Japan in the first three quarters of this year, a 70 percent increase from the same period last year, the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) s ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-13
Phone scammers are relocating to Europe, the Caribbean and small African countries after the arrest of hundreds of suspects in Indonesia and Cambodia. They operate with undiminished impunity from thei ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-12
Two Nepali men were sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison for manslaughter by the High Court, Sing Tao Daily reported. Magar Sagar, 23, a chef, and Gurung Roshan, 27, a bartender, pleaded guilt ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
A 66-year-old grandmother who helped her mainland-born grandson stay illegally in Hong Kong for nine years has been given a suspended jail sentence after the judge exercised leniency in what he consid ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
Hong Kong Disneyland has raised its ticket prices for the third consecutive year even as the local tourism industry struggles with slowing visitor numbers and reduced spending by mainlanders. Effecti ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
Two police officers were injured by a middle-aged expatriate who they saw driving unsteadily in Sai Kung, Sing Tao Daily reported Monday. At 9 p.m. on Saturday night, a police patrol car spotted the d ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
A Shenzhen woman was arrested for trying to use her daughters to smuggle 80 Apple iPhones into mainland China, Sing Tao Daily reported Thursday. After she picked up her daughters from a school in Hong ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
The University of Hong Kong will soon launch a global recruitment process to fill the post of pro vice chancellor for academic staffing and resources, HKU president and vice chancellor Peter Mathieson ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
Virgin Atlantic has laid off 50 mostly senior cabin crew in Hong Kong to save costs, Sing Tao Daily reported Wednesday. Those let go, including 17 supervisors, accounted for over half the British airl ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
Families in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai responded coolly to the end of the country’s one-child policy, Sing Tao Daily reported Monday. The Chinese government, which announced the change Thurs ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-02
Hong Kong is spending more than HK$644 million this year to process 10,450 applications from asylum seekers, Secretary for Security Lai Tung-kwok said. In a written reply to a Legislative Council inqu ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-29
An investigation is under way after a leading US medical journal retracted two studies on liver transplant by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) medical faculty. HKU launched the inquiry after the Amer ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-28
