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
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
