... Japan, Europe, Hong Kong and Taiwan are doing well themselves. The global economy remains lukewarm amid gloomy prospects. In an op-ed in the Washington Post on Monday, former US Secretary of the Treas ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-26
... between people on both sides of the border to the round veto of the Beijing-decreed 2017 election package, it appears the only news we hear about Hong Kong-mainland relations is bad. This summer, howe ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-19
Subdivided flats, or tong fong (劏房) in local parlance, are a disgrace to Hong Kong. We call our city a global metropolis, and yet we allow those cramped and dilapidated units to be used as living quar ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-12
... mails of top officials in Barack Obama's administration. Citing a 2014 National Security Agency briefing that codenamed the attack on email providers “Dancing Panda” and then “Legion Amethyst”, NBC Ne ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-11
... nister. People were curious to see how different Leung’s new youth policy would be. Now we have the answer, thanks to the words uttered by Leung’s mob of heavies after students stormed the University ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-07
... . Deng Xiaoping once tried to calm Hong Kong people's fears by saying that the change of suzerainty is just about changing the flag and the top leader. That was the time when the nerve-wracking Sino- ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-06
A day in jail or 100 hours of community service is appropriate for a group of students who stormed a meeting of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) council last week, according to a senior academic. Pro ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-03
... out in an op-ed article by former Ming Pao Daily editor and HKU alumnus Kevin Lau who accused him of soliciting council members during a private breakfast. Hours later, the council voted 12-6 not to f ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
... newspaper op-ed critical of the decision, laced with a good measure of disdain for Leung's "arrogant and imperious" leadership, a day after his younger brother's dismissal. "A person of high caliber i ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
... r young people during last year’s Occupy Movement. It is a question that will define how their life will be. To much older people like us who are unlikely to be around or even live past 2047, it is a ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-30
Chief Secretary Carrie Lam is warning that defeat of the election reform bill will worsen social divisions and ultimately hurt Hong Kong. On Monday, Lam wrote an op-ed in major newspapers after appear ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-15
Defacing the national flag and emblem is illegal in Hong Kong but not burning copies of the Basic Law. Yet, a group of students who staged a symbolic burning of the document as a show of protest durin ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-11
Tsai Ing-wen, the presidential candidate for Taiwan's pro-independence opposition party, has called for a more sustainable and consistent relationship with mainland China, Reuters reported. The chairw ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-03
... Ming Pao op-ed on Monday, Lau warned Leong not to set a bad precedent by allowing personnel appointments to be dictated by politics. Lau said Leong persuaded Chan to apply for the job in 2013 and the ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-01
“Go less to movies and travel less to Japan.” This advice to young people from Lau Ming-wai, son of Joseph Lau Luen-hung and chief of Chinese Estates Group, has drawn some hefty backlash, although com ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-27
Three prominent British journalists who have written for the South China Morning Post for nearly 40 years combined will be deprived of their regular op-ed columns starting next month. Philip Bowring, ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-20
China this weekend overreacted and denounced a United States Department of Defense report on its military and security developments, urging the US to abandon its Cold War mentality. "China unswervingl ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-12
... lectual property rights, currency manipulation, "unfair" trade practices, counterfeit products, corruption, hacking and China’s military expansion is so commonplace that it’s become clichéd. Take, for ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
... et for my op tomorrow, and so are my surgeon and medical team," Lee wrote on his Facebook page Sunday. The premier recovered from a previous cancer scare after being diagnosed with lymphoma in the 199 ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-16
... lished an op-ed under his byline, taking his remarks out of context, Hessler said. The editorial repeats Communist Party talking points, lauding China's stability and education system while counseling ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22