More than 100 applications were lodged Wednesday on the first day of submissions for 85 subsidized Home Ownership Scheme flats in Tai O, Sing Tao Daily reported Thursday. Most of the applications were ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-12
Beijing believes the practice of the "one country, two systems" principle in Hong Kong has reached a turning point, and it is worried that the city is becoming a hotbed of subversion that could threat ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-11
Hong Kong teachers have given Education Secretary Eddie Ng Hak-kim an F for work performance, Sing Tao Daily reported Wednesday. According to a Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union survey of more th ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-11
A police officer with more than a quarter of a century of murder investigations under his belt described weeping at the crime scene of an 18-month-old girl allegedly killed by her mother at a Sham Shu ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-06
Beijing police are believed to have detained the head of a popular mainland blog site for allegedly creating a disturbance, Beijing lawyer and blogger Liu Xiaoyuan said on his Twitter page Wednesday. ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-05
Stephen Cheung, president of the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd), recalled the heart-pounding moments when he first met Christine in the capital of romance 30 years ago, Sing Tao Daily report ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-04
Hong Kong police are gearing up for a 33-day campaign against betting on soccer during the upcoming World Cup finals. Illegal betting around the world amounted to about HK$1 trillion (US$128.97 billio ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-03
Hong Kong golf enthusiasts could start hitting practice balls in a disused driving range after its new landlord agreed to give it a new lease on life. Whitehead driving range could reopen anytime soon ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-03
A legislative councilor has urged the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority to streamline plans for the arts hub after estimated costs for a 17-hectare basement at the site ballooned to HK$23 billi ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-29
Worries about a wider wealth gap, food security and a lack of trust in Chinese society are keeping 85-year-old Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing awake at night. Solina Chau, director of the Li Ka Shing Fou ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-26
Hong Kong has one of the best benefits for foreign junior executives in Asia but it lags India and mainland China, according to a survey by human resources consultancy firm ECA International. Expatria ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-22
Ten Hong Kong developers are still in the running for the second and third stages of the massive Kwun Tong Town Centre Redevelopment Project after the field was narrowed from 15, Sing Tao Daily report ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-21
Macau is planning to ban the sale of luxury products using UnionPay cards to prevent customers from re-selling them for cash, Sing Tao Daily reported Tuesday. The ban, expected to come into force on J ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
It's been a week of two unions for mogul Peter Lam. Last week, Lam celebrated the marriage of daughter Emily to Kent Ho, son of Sing Tao Group chairman Charles Ho. This week Lam's Lai Sun Garment (Int ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
The new Kai Tak Public Hospital will provide 2,400 beds, the highest among local medical institutions, for people living in Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon City and Kwun Tong, the Hong Kong Economic Times repor ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
Hong Kong's newspaper market is already awash in ink. More than two million free copies are given out each weekday, more than making up for a fall in paid circulation. If you count the hordes of reade ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12
That's illegal. Hong Kong police arrested two men on Tuesday for allegedly operating a car rental service without a license. Acting on a tip-off, police found that a local website was providing weddin ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-30
If you have a child in a certain kindergarten school in Sai Kung, you could be paying through the nose in application fees. That is if you haven't been hit for that ridiculous amount of money already. ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-25
The Philippines should apologize "at the highest levels" for the 2010 bus siege that killed seven Hong Kong tourists and their guide, Hong Kong media said Wednesday. In editorials ahead of a scheduled ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-23
Laura Cha, chairman of Hong Kong's Financial Services Development Council, has stressed the importance of risk management and financial system security in the cross-border "through train" stock tradin ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-23
