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
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
