... 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
... in Tokyo Bay in 1891 in a proud display of the Chinese navy's voyage and combat capabilities. Yet when a top Japanese commander visited the Dingyuan (定遠艦), one of China’s flagship vessels, he found s ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-08
... Causeway Bay to enjoy two complimentary glasses of beer or other beverages each. A first-ever New Zealand-themed rugby carnival has also been set up on Lee Tung Avenue, where visitors will be handed ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-06
... in Subic Bay for separate drills with the Philippine navy. China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam are among the world’s top 15 fish and seafood exporters, the Journal said, ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-06
... Causeway Bay or Tsim Sha Tsui so that the latter can "take out a calculator and count how many empty stores there are". "If he is right, I will kneel down and bow and admit I am idiotic. If he is wro ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-05
... Causeway Bay Bookstore and a naturalized Swedish citizen, and his reappearance on Chinese national TV confessing to having committed a criminal offense in the mainland, have set off a diplomatic disp ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-05
Lee Po, the Causeway Bay Books co-owner who China says is "assisting in an investigation" in the mainland, has returned to Hong Kong again after a one-day trip to the city last week. Headline Daily re ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-30
... eep Water Bay at around 11 pm and found the place ransacked, according to Apple Daily. The foreign maid immediately contacted her boss and also alerted the police. Wong and his family were said to be ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
... uantanamo Bay detention center while also listing the impact of US army drone attacks on civilians. China’s accusations are not without foundation but, of course, the difference is that when these sam ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
... ear Water Bay will be increased 7.7 percent to HK$84,000. ESF chief executive Belinda Greer said the board and management of ESF schools had seriously considered the impact on parents before making th ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-23
... isastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, in the first months of John F. Kennedy’s administration. Later, the CIA was given the green light to assassinate Castro. In 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushch ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-23
... t of Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant, just 50 kilometers off Hong Kong, goes to the local grid. The government has not revealed the price of the new supply contract but sources said it is higher than pre ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-17
... learwater Bay Road. There was a gap of only five inches between the rails. Responding firemen managed to pull it out of the railing after covering its head to keep it from panicking. The animal sustai ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-17
A fruit juice shop in Discovery Bay has been flooded with condolence notes and floral bouquets after its owner died in a suspected suicide incident on Saturday. The outpouring of sympathy and grief ov ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-16
... Causeway Bay. Most shops there have seen their rent tumble nearly 50 percent from last year thanks to fewer visitors from mainland China. The latest transaction had jewelry and fashion retailer Folli ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-15
... Shenzhen Bay Port checkpoint as an example of cross-border law enforcement. Asked which side is responsible for in-car law enforcement, he suggested mainland authorities take care of southbound train ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-14
... i Chi Kok Bay, where you'll find tiny footprints of visitors on the sand. It is also said that the bay used to be a forest of lychee trees, and so the place was named after the tree. In the 1920s, th ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-12
