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
Fears are reverberating across US after the entire Los Angeles school district was shut down over a threatened attack on Tuesday. Federal officials later said the threat was likely a hoax but said it ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
Police are on the lookout for two men following a pickpocketing incident involving a Chinese-Canadian tourist last night in Kowloon. The tourist, a person surnamed Yeung, was walking back to his hotel ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-14
The Los Angeles County sheriff promised to thoroughly investigate the fatal shooting of a black man by policemen who said the suspect refused to drop his weapon, after a video posted online appeared t ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-14
... luding philanthropist Eli Broad. He did not say on his verified Twitter account which firm would acquire the newspaper group or the timing of any deal, Reuters reported. He tweeted that he did not bid ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-30
Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League of Democracy (NLD) is Burma’s current flavor, and the ballots cast by the Burmese voters—at least those eligible to participate in the electoral process—has put many ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-28
... that mainland China is now the top non-European country sending students to Britain. Chinese students in tertiary education in Britain number 87,900, Higher Education Statistics Agency figures show ( ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-28
... -a-month flat in Kowloon Tong for the family which also includes two other daughters. They are aiming to get their second child into Maryknoll Convent School, a public girls' school in Kowloon Tong, o ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-24
Los Angeles will use some public buildings to shelter the homeless after officials raised the red flag over the growing number of people living on the streets. The plan has won preliminary approval fr ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
... ties with large Chinese populations are their favorite. “The US market reacted quickly, bottomed out quickly, and there is a huge inflow of capital into the US," Philip Feder, chairman of global real ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
... with a Kalashnikov, killing at least 14 people sitting at the outdoor terrace in the popular Charonne area in the capital's 10th district. "When one of the staff at the restaurant told us that there ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-17
Li Ka-shing, along with HSBC Holdings plc (00005.HK), once owned it. Then, global media baron Rupert Murdoch did. Now Hong Kong-based Malaysian developer Robert Kuok Hock Nien does. Who's next? We a ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
