The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) dismissed rumors circulating on social media that oranges injected with HIV-infected blood are being sold in Hong Kong markets, noting that the deadly virus is not nor ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-18
In a report titled "Coming Clean", rights group Justice Centre laid out three real-life cases to illustrate how some migrant domestic workers (MDWs) are in forced labor in Hong Kong. The report estima ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-16
... , Justice Centre Hong Kong said, calling for an amendment of the rule. It suggested that MDWs should be free to decide for themselves whether to live with their employers or stay elsewhere. Those who ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-16
... o Justice Centre Hong Kong, a non-profit human rights organization in the city. Extrapolated to the general population of 336,600 registered MDWs in Hong Kong, it suggests that over 50,000 migrant dom ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-15
Renowned Harvard professor Michael J. Sandel spoke at the Research Centre for Human Values at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) last Friday. Sandel's "Justice" course at Harvard has been the ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-14
... economic centre of gravity is shifting westwards. Others have argued just as forcefully that it's the centre of gravity of western economies that is heading east. Of course both are right. People in ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-11
... Air Mail Centre Delivery Office saw two bullets fall out from a parcel coming in from the US. The parcel bore the address of a Yoshinoya outlet in Mong Kok. On opening the parcel, officials found 13 ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-11
... uary. The Centre for Health Protection announced on Tuesday there were outbreaks of influenza-like illnesses at four schools involving a total of 81 students and four staffers. -- Contact us at englis ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-09
... Financial Centre for HK$10 billion last month. In November last year, Evergrande Real Estate Group paid HK$12.5 billion for Mass Mutual Tower, also in Wan Chai, setting a record for office building pr ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-07
... ng to the Centre for Retail Research, compared with 11.6 percent in Germany, 8.0 percent in France and just 2.5 percent in Italy. – Contact us at [email protected] FL/RA ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-07
... y Service Centre and the School of Nursing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University found. The study covered more than 10,000 students from 16 secondary schools in Hong Kong. Those who signaled anxiety we ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-05
... imen, the Centre for Health Protection announced Wednesday night. The oysters are said to have come from Penn Cove in Washington. The hotel has stopped providing the items, am730 reported. Meanwhile, ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-03
... as at the centre of it, came with the arrival of the last governor, Chris Patten, destined for high ministerial office in Britain but derailed by loosing his seat in parliament. Lord Patten, as he be ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-27
... xhibition Centre (HKCEC), after he refused to sign a pledge that he won't do anything that could endanger the safety of the members, media reports said. Mathieson pointed out that the university gover ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-26
There were 725 fresh cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection in Hong Kong last year, the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) announced. The figure represents an increase of 11 percent ove ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-24
The health department's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) issued a fresh flu alert on Tuesday as it announced that it is investigating two cases of severe paediatric influenza A in the city. It urged ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-17
... s Support Centre (CFCSC) said they are willing to forego lavish rituals during weddings, according to the report. Wong Chui-shan, a CFCSC family service supervisor, was quoted as saying that a "half-n ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-15
... t at CAPA Centre for Aviation. “Chinese airlines are waking up to their potential.” As China re-balances its economy toward consumer spending after its slowest annual growth rate in 25 years, the gove ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-15
A 34-year-old man, China's first confirmed case of Zika virus infection, stayed at the Hong Kong International Airport overnight before returning to the mainland. Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protect ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-11
... Wan Civic Centre and then set off to Central together. I bet he enjoyed seeing us overwhelmed by unanswered, burning questions. The day finally came. Standing at a railing atop a multistory building, ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-08
