“I am a slave here. My son brought me here to be an unpaid nanny and helper to his children. I cannot drive and dare not answer the telephone because I cannot speak English.” Madame Leung Siu-mei was ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-01
The government announced that it received a notification from Beijing about the lifting of mainland entry restrictions for some lawmakers and others in Hong Kong. With the eased rules, opposition figu ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-01
A lawmaker has urged authorities to come clean on the problems encountered with the new air traffic control (ATC) system at the city's airport, alleging that there have been far more glitches with the ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-25
Facebook Inc. has quietly developed a censorship tool that could persuade China to allow the world's biggest social media network to re-enter the world's second largest economy after a seven-year ban. ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-24
The abrupt interpretation of Article 104 of the Basic Law by the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) triggered a new round of political confrontation between Beijing and the pan-demo ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-16
It turns out CY Leung did not take his oath properly, so some people are saying he has been in office illegally. This emerged after a video clip of the 2012 swearing-in ceremony went viral on Wednesda ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-03
Despite the fact that the 2017 chief executive race is a small circle election, it is significant because Beijing's choice of a person for the job will serve as an indication of whether its policy tow ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-02
November is shaping up to be an eventful month. First there's the US presidential election. Hillary Clinton could lose support as a result of FBI's decision to reopen its investigation into her emails ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-01
Last Friday, news started circulating in mainland media that UnionPay would ban from the next day the use of its cards to pay for Hong Kong insurance policies, but the company denied it. A day later, ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-31
China UnionPay Co. has banned mainland customers from using their bank cards to buy insurance products overseas other than accident and medical-related policies. The country's biggest bank card provid ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-31
Few schools can match the flexibility of A-School, the first primary and secondary through-train school in Hong Kong. A-School already enjoys greater freedom in writing its curriculum under the direct ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-28
Even though Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has recently been plagued by sex scandals and is lagging behind Hillary Clinton in every major poll, he remains highly popular among white ev ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-28
How long does it take to swipe a card 200 times and get the paperwork all signed? The answer is about an hour, according the China Securities Daily. But Hong Kong insurance agents are more than happy ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-24
A European space lander reached Mars on Wednesday, but there are growing fears that it has been lost. Older European and US spacecraft already in orbit relayed data of the lander's six-minute descent. ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-20
