An internet storm has been brewing in mainland China over the death of Lei Yang, 29, a native of Hunan province, in police custody. Lei left his Beijing home between 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday to p ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-12
... eets of Milan and Rome. The move reflects China's growing status as a global tourism superpower. It's aimed at more than three million Chinese visitors to Italy feel safe. Four officers, wearing Chine ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-04
The discovery of three planets that circle a small, dim star could bolster the chances of finding life beyond Earth, astronomers said on Monday. The Earth-sized planets are orbiting their parent star, ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-03
... from mainland China is all too likely to be adulterated, chemically modified or contain toxic insecticides. Recent studies of international food fraud identified China as one of the top achievers in ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-29
Thanks to Hong Kong's gentrification, the place where you work indicates your standing in the social pyramid. If you commute to Central each day, you are probably a banker, a stock broker, a lawyer or ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
Indonesia is proposing joint maritime patrols with Malaysia and the Philippines to counter a murderous Islamic extremist group which claims ties to Islamic State. Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s ca ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-27
... hort time later. Prince, whose hit songs also included Let's Go Crazy, I Would Die 4 U, Raspberry Beret, Little Red Corvette and Kiss, was on a US tour as recently as last week. Last Friday, he was br ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
... Europe’s largest economy, the consequences of Brexit could be grave. Public opinion in the country is divided on the issue. Some fear that the EU would become less liberal if Britain left. Others, re ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-20
A scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is taking a saucy approach to promoting Cantonese. Benjamin Au Yeung Wai-hoo, a.k.a. Ben Sir, is a senior lecturer in CUHK's department of Chinese la ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-15
... Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd. (00012.HK) chairman Lee Shau-kee, rarely shows up at his company's post-results news conference. But he did Monday, following the well-received town hall meeting CK ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-22
... a Pok Fu Lam mansion, reading Shakespeare and Adam Smith -- and fashionable. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) would be someone from the local scholar class who lives in a large, idyllic hou ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-14
Contrary to stereotype, not all overseas students from China are children of the 1 percent. Sure, many are the ultra-rich progeny of Chinese billionaires or corrupt officials, flaunting their unimagin ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
President Barack Obama is preparing to embark on a historic visit to Cuba, making the future of the communist-ruled island the subject of widespread speculation. Some observers are hoping that the ong ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-07
Thousands of protesters rallied in New York and more than 30 other US cities over the weekend in support of a former New York City police officer who was convicted of manslaughter for a shooting in a ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
Let's not fool ourselves. The peaceful protesters of the Umbrella Movement were defeated. You can hardly overrun the establishment with a peaceful sit-in protest a la Gandhi when only half of the com ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
Three 19-year-old mainland Chinese who attended high school in Southern California were sentenced to long prison terms for violent assaults on fellow “parachute kids”, including one attack that lasted ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-19
The government surprised the public on Wednesday afternoon with its decision to scale back the controversial revitalization plan for the Tsim Sha Tsui harbourfront. Suspicions were rife that the renov ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-18
... ke the villain, is bringing Hong Kong even closer to the island, politically and ideologically. What Hong Kong has been put through after the 1997 reunification serves as a warning to Taiwan on the pr ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
Organizers of a Swiss watch fair held annually in Hong Kong may cut the event to one every two years amid declining sales in the industry’s largest market. The Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie in 2013 ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
... and Godzilla. The deal represents the largest acquisition to date of a US production company by a Chinese firm, according to the Los Angeles Times. "We already have a big impact in China, however thi ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
