The 2014 Occupy Central protests, an exhausting effort that failed, have reshaped today’s ideology. The path-blazing movement unfettered Hong Kong’s democratic bloc from the old, law-abiding dogma, an ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
... votes, beating his main rival, Holden Chow Ho-ding of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), a solicitor, who got 150,329 votes. Edward Leung Tin-kei, ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
... rea, prompting people to dub it "So Lo Pun", which literally translates to 'the compass is locked' in Cantonese. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, So Lo Pun village was still housing over 200 families. Lik ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-27
... -party meeting on the controversial copyright amendment bill would not have been held if not for the filibustering by pan-democrat legislators. He said the bill might otherwise have been passed at an ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-26
... jump-starting the economy after the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome, streamlining the government bureaucracy and easing the budget deficit, all of which have far-reaching implications f ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-26
Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah said in his budget speech that "tension and turbulence are mounting in Hong Kong. Many of us feel suffocated and helpless with the tiresome confrontations day i ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-26
... in "collecting, publishing and reposting information to the public”. Under that definition, all news and information websites run by the foreign media are subject to the new rules. The question is whe ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-25
A second man in five days has committed suicide by jumping off Ting Kau Bridge, Apple Daily reported Wednesday. The 57-year-old man, surnamed Yeung, got into a taxi in Tin Shui Wai on Tuesday afternoo ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-24
... n site in Tin Shui Wai. The 62-year-victim, surnamed Au, was a local who worked as a day watchman at the site. Suspecting Au had said bad things about him to their supervisor, who later had him transf ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-24
Ray Wong Toi-yeung, convenor of the localist group Hong Kong Indigenous who was arrested on Sunday, has been granted bail with conditions. The 22-year-old activist has been charged with inciting viole ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-24
... c in promoting technology development. But it turns out he is focusing on a single thing -- the video teller machine (VTM). VTM is a typical automated teller machine with a video camera as well as an ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
... friend in Tin Shui Wai. According to the product description on Taobao online shopping site, one can make the "gun" at home by assembling the parts. The instrument can be used to shoot down small obje ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
Police searched the home of Ray Wong Toi-yeung, convenor of the localist group Hong Kong Indigenous, at Choi Ming Estate in Tseung Kwan O on Monday, a day after he was arrested with a friend in Tin Sh ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
... keep repeating formulaic answers that do not truly reflect what they themselves are thinking. Having said all this, I must say I found Edward Leung Tin-kei’s performance pretty strong despite the poor ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
... in Ho Man Tin and Wong Chuk Hang. Vincent Cheung, valuation and advisory services chief of Colliers International, said the government should prioritize the release of smaller sites in the New Territo ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-22
... I) in Sha Tin for working in the city illegally, the report said. The Karate master had come here to conduct a five-day course at the sports institute. He was said to have been hired by the Karatedo F ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-22
A four-year-old boy died in Union Hospital in Sha Tin on Sunday, a casualty of Hong Kong's winter flu season. The boy had been suffering from flu symptoms for a week, Metro Daily reports, citing a hos ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-22
On Sunday, residents of the New Territories East electoral district – which includes Sha Tin, Tai Po, Sai Kung and the surrounding areas – will get to decide the political future of the entire city. ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-22
A localist leader has been arrested on suspicion of inciting violence during clashes in Mong Kok on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Ray Wong, convenor of localist group Hong Kong Indigenous, was ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-22
... rough the tiny Pacific island nation of 900,000 people, Reuters reports. The capital Suva escaped the brunt of the storm at the last minute when it changed course. Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama con ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-22
