Around two weeks ago, local political and business circles were abuzz with the question of whether Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying would be forced to step down due to his failure to push the political ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-28
Smugglers are using wheelchair-bound travelers to transport goods across the border. They have found a new way to skirt customs inspections with wheelchair passengers typically allowed to use special ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-28
Secretary for Food and Health Dr. Ko Wing-man has sought to allay fears that children found to have excessive lead levels in their blood would experience stunted intellectual growth. Ko said signs of ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
Beijing has relied on the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) to serve as a stabilizing force for the city's middle class. It wants the pro-establishment party to f ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
Leong Che-hung, chairman of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) council, is denying he lobbied other members to delay the appointment of a pro vice chancellor. Leong hit back after being called out in a ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
A mainland tourist is in serious condition after her tour bus pinned her against a metal roadside railing, Sing Tao Daily reported Friday. The accident took place on Sung On Street in Hung Hom not lon ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
A mainland tourist admitted in court that she smashed a car owned by Sing Tao News Corp. with her umbrella after a reporter and a cameraman from the news outfit approached her for an interview in the ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
Hong Kong police are pressing their investigation into a phone scam in which a man lost 1.7 million yuan (US$273,741) to swindlers posing as a courier and a policeman. The 40-year-old man, surnamed La ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-22
Demolition work has begun on the 80-year-old building housing the Tung Tak Pawn Shop in Wan Chai, Sing Tao Daily reported Tuesday. The property owner has obtained approval from the Buildings Departmen ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
The parents of a nine-month-old baby boy said an elderly woman tried to abduct their child while they were shopping in Sheung Shui earlier this week, Sing Tao Daily reported on Thursday. The father na ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
It happens all the time -- someone leaves something outside the door and finds it gone in an instant. But you'd have thought a certain businessman would know better than leave a fortune in a shopping ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
Five out of six Hong Kong employees suffer from muscle pain in their backs, shoulders and necks as a result of long working hours and work pressure, a survey shows. Cimigo, a market research organizat ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
A former housing policy adviser to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said the government can develop a small portion of the Tai Lam Country Park as a pilot project for public housing. Kaizer Lau Ping-ch ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung said the Hong Kong government cannot guarantee that pro-democracy activists will not be arrested under China's new security law if they enter the mainland, ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
The number of mainland visitors to Hong Kong under the individual visit scheme has dropped 10 percent in the first 28 days of June from a year earlier after the central government restricted visas fro ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
Is the Chinese leadership preparing to indirectly implement its law in Hong Kong, on top of the city's own constitution, under the pretext of safeguarding national security? This is the thought that i ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
Labor Party leader Lee Cheuk-yan has asked the Hong Kong government to clarify whether he faces the risk of arrest if he enters the mainland following China's enactment of a new national security law. ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
A 19-year–old woman was severely injured and may be disfigured after she was attacked by a man who was mentally ill, Sing Tao Daily reported Thursday. The attack, which appeared to be random, happened ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
Hong Kong won't be getting its own national security law soon, after the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee passed a new one for China on Wednesday. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying sa ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
Thanks to WhatsApp, Hong Kong people have been given a rare insider view of the secret deliberations within the pro-establishment camp before and after the historic voting on the political reform pack ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-26
