... Causeway Bay and Mong Kok. Penalty tickets were issued without warning, even in cases where the driver was in the car, the report said. Observers said traffic policemen seemed to have turned a blind ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-02
... Causeway Bay Bookstore, known for distributing and selling books critical of the Chinese Communist Party and its leaders”. The report said the case has raised serious concerns in Hong Kong and “repre ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-31
... a Repulse Bay robbery on Monday, the police said. The man is suspected of 15 burglaries since 2009 in which HK$380,000 worth of valuables were stolen, mostly in Repulse Bay and Happy Valley. Headline ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-27
Two mainland men were seen begging for money in Quarry Bay on Thursday afternoon but fled after they learned that street begging is illegal in Hong Kong. Some netizens suspected the duo might have bee ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-27
... n Kowloon Bay in October grossed huge revenues as fans crowded the venue and scalpers reportedly sold tickets at a 60 percent markup. Cantopop has never been merely about the local market of 7.3 milli ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-26
... Causeway Bay Books, was believed to have been abducted in Hong Kong and taken to the mainland in late December. Observers believed the publishers were targeted by Beijing over their distribution of g ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-26
On a visit to Causeway Bay with a friend, he proudly took me to an eatery that specializes in Qian (Guizhou) cuisine, which he assumed I was unlikely to have tried before. Well, he underestimated me s ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
... n Repulse Bay for HK$300,000 (US$38,650) a month are being slashed or eliminated, Bloomberg reports. Expatriate executives are having to give up marble jacuzzis, private gardens and killer views in ex ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
Last week, the police raided a beauty salon in Causeway Bay and arrested 11 women, including the owner of the salon, on charges of fraud and practising medicine without a license. According to media r ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-16
... stle Peak Bay in Tuen Mun, there has been a similar story on Mouse Island. Residents in the bay were mostly fishermen dwelling on their boats. If people had children who failed to recover from illness ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-13
The owner of a Causeway Bay beauty salon has been arrested after police received reports that she swindled customers by giving bogus treatments, which allegedly caused the death of two of them. Police ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-05
Mainland Chinese police arrested three mainlanders, one of them a teenage boy, for theft last week on a cross-border bus bound for Hong Kong from Shenzhen Bay, Headline Daily reported Tuesday. The boy ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-03
... in Quarry Bay, enjoyed a robust business. Quite renowned it was that some urban legends had developed around it. One was about the origin of its Chinese name, Taikoo (太古) -- tai gu in Cantonese transc ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-29
... rt on the Bay of Bengal, highways extended to India, and the Irrawaddy River transformed into a waterway for Chinese freight headed west." At the same time, special economic zones modeled on Shenzhen ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
... Causeway Bay but decided to rescue the cat after hearing about its plight. The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals also sent staff to investigate, but they found no trace of the cat after se ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-27
Grass Island, also known as Tap Mun (塔門), has recently become a popular destination for weekend campers. But there are other equally enthralling locations in the vicinity where you can spend a day awa ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
... Causeway Bay instead. Meanwhile, the legislature kept stalling the funding for the mint, as the project was expected to be unprofitable. The mint finally opened in 1866, operated for two years and th ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
... rojecting bay and symmetrical tall and narrow windows on its granite façade. The staircase where parties face off in front of the magistracy is a familiar scene in many of Hong Kong’s crime movies and ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-20
He may just be a toddler, but his wrath kept law enforcers at bay – at least for a while. A video clip seen on Weibo shows a chubby Chinese boy, said to be only three years old, using all his strength ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-15
The US State Department has criticised the disappearances of five Hong Kong men connected to Causeway Bay Books, which sold books critical of mainland leaders and the Chinese Communist Party, RTHK rep ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-15
