... on Lantau island and New Territories East, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. A spectacular photo taken by a local resident and posted on a Facebook page shows a lightning hitting the sea surface ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-11
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying led a team of officials in overseeing a clean-up operation at two beaches on Lantau Island on Sunday, expressing concern at the growing amount of rubbish washing into H ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-11
... outlying islands of Jin Island and Basalt Island. In the south is Tin Ha Shan (田下山), Po Toi O (布袋澳) and Tung Lung Island (東龍島). In the west is Tsueng Kwan O, Fat Tong O (佛堂澳) and Hong Kong Island Eas ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-08
... Hong Kong Island seat in the Legislative Council. While Wong is seeking to ouster Leung, his platform is conservative in other issues, and this is likely to resonate well with his target voters: execu ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-08
... nd Po Toi Island, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. Facebook photos of flotsam in Nim Shue Wan and Cheung Sha Beach on Lantau Island have gone viral. The massive tide of garbage has made world h ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-08
... f Crooked Island in 2014. Fok said the pellets resembled those used in body scrub products, which suggests that our waste water treatment facilities are unable to filter out these microbeads discharge ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-07
Media entrepreneur Ricky Wong Wai-kay announced that he is running in the Legislative Council elections in September to represent the Hong Kong Island geographical constituency. Speaking on Facebook l ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-04
... ts recent island-building or declaring an air-defense zone in the area. China's Maritime Safety Administration, in announcing the exercises, gave geographic coordinates for the drills in an area runni ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-04
... rn on the island of Ireland, or whose parents were, is automatically an Irish citizen who qualifies for a passport. On Monday, Ireland Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan appealed to British people to s ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-04
... of Lamma Island into a lush green field by planting about 30,000 trees over the past 20 years. "I am very glad that we planted a forest, and I am very proud to say my mission is accomplished,” Gaia w ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-30
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo ordered an expansion of offshore oil exploration and commercial fishing in the waters near the Natuna Islands, the latest in a new campaign to assert sovereignty over ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-30
... ke on the island starting from midnight. The issue doesn't only involve the passengers and labor rights of the crew members, but also reflects the difficult situation faced by this state-owned company ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-24
... among the island’s youth. On another key front, foreign relations, Xi has only exacerbated the feud with neighbors in territorial spats across the East and South China Sea, forcing Southeast Asian nat ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-23
... brands in Island East. Our common law system and mature transportation infrastructure, among other factors, have kept interest in Hong Kong despite our high office rents. For western companies, Hong K ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-22
... into our island fastness, pull up the drawbridge and shout out our independence from behind the Union flag. Independence? Where have these people been living? They remind me of the whelk, that marine ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-21
... Hong Kong Island constituency in the last Legco election were rigged because his party was secretly “coordinating” votes with the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions on election day, an act that cons ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-20
Next time you tell a cabbie to take you to Citibank Tower in Hong Kong Island, don't be surprised if you are greeted with a perplexed look. It is because the 51-storey commercial building that you had ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-17
... the Lamma Island a month ago, which shows two aircraft heading towards each other as if they are to collide head-on. In reality, the two planes were about 2,800 feet apart vertically, above the ICAO m ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-16
... off Lamma Island in October 2012. One of the vessels involved in the collision was not fitted with a watertight door. As a result, water entered the ferry, which sank rapidly. Thirty-nine people died. ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-15
... rtificial islands including airstrips in the area, some of which are suitable for military use. The Philippines, Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam have competing claims to parts of the sea, which i ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-15
