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
Tour groups to Hong Kong from the mainland were down by a third in February compared to the same month last year, and the downtrend intensified further this month, Sing Tao Daily reported. Last month, ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-12
Media maverick Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has made another key change to his empire, promoting Chan Pui-man to chief editor of Apple Daily. Chan, a veteran journalist, is the first woman to head the newspape ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-10
Financial Secretary John Tsang will deliver his 2015-16 budget speech this Wednesday. Most people, from ordinary housewives to the biggest property developers, are eager to know if the government will ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
Financial Secretary John Tsang is widely expected to issue another HK$10 billion worth of iBonds, which are linked to inflation, in his budget speech at the Legislative Council on Feb. 25, Sing Tao Da ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-11
Hong Kong health officials are warning about the booming online sales of affordable but potentially illegal Botox injections. The warning came after reports a 15-year-old girl spent HK$8,000 (US$1,031 ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-09
University of Hong Kong (HKU) law dean Michael Hor Yew Meng is defending the faculty against claims of poor performance. HKU has sought to produce high-quality research and publications which have a ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital (GHKH), a private institution funded jointly by Singapore’s Parkway Pantai Ltd. and NWS Holdings Ltd., will target the mass-market when it becomes operational in 2017, ma ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-30
With ample surplus expected in government coffers, Hong Kong's Financial Secretary John Tsang is considering fresh "giveaways" to the public, possibly through tax refund or rates concession, Sing Tao ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-27
