Crowd dispersal rehearsals involving up to 1,000 police officers were conducted at the Wong Chuk Hang police academy on Saturday and Sunday, raising speculation that authorities are gearing up to clea ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-03
A prominent pro-Beijing campaigner is facing withering criticism after he compared the street protests by pro-democracy activists to the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. Robert Chow, a spokesman for ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-03
The Central government could direct Hong Kong authorities to clear the Occupy protest sites by use of force once the Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) meeting in Beijing ends, according to Ng Ho ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-03
Hong Kong has seen an increase in the inflow of mainland tourist groups this month despite the Occupy pro-democracy protests that have blockaded parts of the city since late September. About 380 tou ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-24
Masked men poured soy sauce on stacks of Apple Daily newspaper at three distribution points in Hong Kong in the early hours of Wednesday, rendering the copies unsellable, Ming Pao Daily reported. The ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-23
A consensus will not be easy to reach in the first round of talks between the Hong Kong government and the student leaders over the issue of universal suffrage, Sing Tao Daily reported on Tuesday. Rep ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-21
A mainland student accused of attacking a university lecturer pleaded not guilty and sought assistance from the Chinese government. Liu Lu, 26, who says he is a student of Tsinghua University in Beiji ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-09
Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress Rita Fan Lai-tai said the NPC is unlikely to change its decision on the arrangements for the 2017 election in Hong Kong unless there are new and powe ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-08
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has discovered new Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE) materials that will help produce better-quality fingerprints compared to the existing m ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-25
The seating plan says it all and the body language is even more telling. Here, China's rigid communist protocol is cleanly laid out for all to see. It's a delicate art in which what is said is sometim ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
Executive councilor Bernard Chan has stoked rumors about a potential run for chief executive in 2017 after giving an extensive interview about Hong Kong's political development. Chan's father Robin, c ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
Is Asia Television (ATV), the smaller of Hong Kong's free-to-air TV broadcasters, poised for an ownership change? And if so, who is the buyer and what is prompting the interest? Well, rumors regardin ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
President Xi Jinping said China will reconsider its policy on outbound tours in response to concerns in Hong Kong, Sing Tao Daily reported Tuesday. Xi made the comment during a meeting with a Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
Seating arrangement in any political gathering and formal group photograph is always tricky, especially so in China where authorities constantly use official events to send signals to the outside worl ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
Police will stop Occupy Central protesters from reentering key areas in Hong Kong's main business and financial district if they break up to skirt a seven-hour window when they could be liable for obs ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-18
Hong Kong pan-democrats have been warned to return to the "normal track" if they want to have a political future, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Tuesday. Wang Guangya, chief of the Hong Kong ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-16
Investors in Hong Kong can have the chance to take part in Alibaba's mega share offering for as little as HK$200,000 (US$25,803) as the Chinese technology giant prepares for its trading debut on the N ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-15
A pro-establishment group is distancing itself from a controversial reporting hotline aimed at discouraging students from taking part in a class boycott, Sing Tao Daily reported Thursday. The Hong ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-11
Beijing finally closed the raging debate over political reform in Hong Kong when the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Aug. 31 approved a conservative proposal for the 2017 chief ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-10
The operator of the Peak Tram, which ferries people from Hong Kong's Central district to the popular tourist attraction of Victoria Peak, has proposed to replace the system's rail coaches with larger ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-03
