Is it a wheelchair or a glorified tricycle with a luxury badge? MTR staff decided it's a disabled transporter allowed under the rail operator's regulations. But netizens are still fired up over the re ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-24
Here's the latest technique used by parallel traders to avoid scrutiny from customs officers at the border: wheelchair-bound passengers. Authorities have noticed a recent upsurge in the number of supp ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-22
Some women are less forgiving when it comes to their bodies but men are more relaxed about theirs. The findings come from a recent survey by the Public Opinion Program of the University of Hong Kong. ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-19
News that police seized explosives and arrested members of a shadowy group following a raid on an abandoned building in Sai Kung certainly perked things up at the start of the week. The suspects were ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-16
Hong Kong is the fourth-most-expensive city in Asia Pacific for expatriates, surpassing Tokyo for the first time as the Hong Kong dollar appreciates against the yen, Sing Tao Daily reported Friday. Th ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-12
Sing Tao News Corp. (01105.HK) is seeking compensation of at least HK$1.57 million (US$200,000) from three protesters who disrupted a schools debate last month, Ming Pao Daily reported Friday. It has ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-05
In performing their function as the Fourth Estate, media should exercise the highest degree of fairness and level-headedness. In monitoring the actions, words and performance of officials and politici ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-04
Three Indian merchants were kidnapped in Hong Kong in 2013 by five Pakistanis, who threatened to behead them, a court heard Tuesday. Manmohan Singh, 57, Satwinder Singh, 37, and Gurinder Singh, 49, ar ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-03
More than 60 percent of young people in Hong Kong have given up on being able to buy a home amid high property prices, according to a survey. The survey was conducted by the Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-03
Shanghai authorities have detained an artist for allegedly parodying President Xi Jinping, Sing Tao Daily reported Thursday. The arrest of Dai Jiangyong on Wednesday by the municipal Public Security B ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-28
Barry Ma Kin-yin, chairman of local radical group The Faculty of Orchid Gardening was arrested after he posted on his Facebook page that all five members of a columnist's family should be killed. Ma a ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-28
What is Henry Tang up to? The former chief secretary, who lost out to Leung Chun-ying in the 2012 chief executive election, made a big splash Wednesday by launching a new organization that aims to "se ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
Hong Kong’s Urban Renewal Authority (URA) is adopting a new policy to speed up a redevelopment project in Sheung Wan that has been stalled for 12 years. Instead of waiting until it acquires 80 percent ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
A new pro-establishment website founded by former RTHK host Robert Chow Yung will debut on May 5, just in time to join the second phase of the debate on universal suffrage. The website will be called ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-29
Environmental groups in Hong Kong launched a campaign Monday to encourage people not to leave any garbage behind when they visit the local country parks. In a joint initiative, five green groups calle ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-28
Less three in 10 Hong Kong people have knowledge about fair trade, according to a survey of 1,000 consumers. Nearly half of the respondents cannot tell a fair trade product, Sing Tao Daily reported Fr ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-24
A band raised an uproar after it sang a song full of foul language directed at the police during its performance at Lingnan University recently, Sing Tao Daily reported on Tuesday. Pro-Beijing newspap ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-21
Parallel traders from Shenzhen have been swamping the Lok Ma Chau border control point, hoping to take advantage of the time left on their multiple-entry visas, Sing Tao Daily reported Friday. Once th ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-17
Mainland officials at the Lo Wu border checkpoint arrested a 40-year-old Hong Kong woman last Friday after they found eight gold bars fastened around her waist. The gold bars, said to be 99.99 percent ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-26
Civic Party legislator Ronny Tong is planning a think tank to serve as a middle ground in Hong Kong politics. Tong said the think tank is open to like-minded groups and individuals, Sing Tao Daily rep ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
