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
Many high school students are still struggling with language proficiency, based on the results of this year's Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education examinations (HKDSE). Only 7.5 percent of the day ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
... Our tequila has been here in Asia for a long time. We should go beyond berries, wines and spirits and look at other options," Andres Rozental Gutman, former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and a ca ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
Two new books by Italian journalists depict a Vatican plagued by mismanagement, greed, cronyism and corruption. They show Pope Francis still faces stiff resistance from the old guard to his reform ag ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
A former co-owner of Hong Kong's "billionaires' canteen" was injured in a brawl with two masked men who pulled off the second burglary in two days on The Peak. The duo broke into a luxury home Monday ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-13
Former chief executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen was charged Monday with two counts of misconduct in public office. He is accused of failing to declare he had been in negotiations to rent a luxury flat fr ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-09
... e the popular India pale ales, Point the Way IPA, Wolf Among Weeds IPA and Golden Road Hefeweizen, as well as a collection of seasonal brews. Financial terms of the deal, which is is expected to close ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-24
Hong Kong schoolchildren are facing increasing competition for primary school places from mainlanders. Government-run and subsidized primary schools are accepting applications for discretionary place ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-22
The moral abyss in Chinese society is getting more shocking as reports surface regularly that motorists in the country are intentionally killing the pedestrians they hit. You didn't misread that. But ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-08
If you think China’s pledge to respect the status quo in Hong Kong for 50 years sounds like a faint echo from a distant galaxy, there's one place that can serve as a potent metaphor for the profound c ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
