Over the 27 years since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, attendance at the annual candlelight vigil in Victoria Park has waxed and waned. The way the event is held and the recognition the organizer ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-07
... Tiananmen Square in 1989, while some believe it refers to Lin Biao, a close aide of chairman Mao Zedong who died in a plane crash in Mongolia. The well-designed plot, involving political maneuvering, ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-06
... w York. A square foot in London will now cost US$1,025, on average, compared with Hong Kong at US$1,411. A survey of 1,033 adults in Hong Kong, conducted by IP Global and YouGov in January, found that ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-06
... Tiananmen Square massacre is a good place to start for fostering divisions among Hong Kong’s pro-democracy camp. They are planning to boycott the June 4 rally in Victoria Park and some of the more int ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-03
... Tiananmen Square 27 years ago on June 4, according to the US-based broadcaster. Qi, who was maimed when a tank ran over his legs on the night of June 3, 1989 in Beijing, got himself photographed weari ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-03
... 6 million square feet of agricultural land available in northeastern New Territories, which could be turned into residential units to house 170,000 people. “It is simply unreasonable to oppose the dev ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-03
Wang Dan, one of the prominent student leaders in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, said he is distressed at remarks made by some young Hong Kong people in relation to the June 4 remembra ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-03
... Tiananmen Square massacre. Andrew To Kwan-hang, who had served as secretary-general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) in 1989, said it is absurd that people are seeking to boycott the Jun ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-02
... Tiananmen Square. “At the time, I felt I had no reason not to attend the vigil, as I thought, 'I am a Chinese',” Chow said. However, he said, he found that what took place at the vigils in the followi ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-02
... t has 100 square feet of usable space, but reporters who visited the place found that it could only accommodate a sofa bed, which must be stowed during daytime for anyone to be able to move around. Th ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-01
... Tiananmen Square in 1989 appears to have lost resonance among the younger generation. The chairman of the Hong Kong University Students' Union has dismissed the vigil, saying that it doesn't serve any ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-31
Should Hong Kong people continue to commemorate the June 4 Tiananmen Square massacre? The annual event at Victoria Park, in which hundreds of thousands of people hold a candlelight vigil to remember t ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-31
... Tiananmen Square student movement in the spring of 1989 and how it is linked to the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. The youngsters shouldn't neglect the fact that Hong Kong's current political la ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-26
It's said that one square foot of land in Hong Kong is worth its weight in gold. That's why many people live in a shoebox. Despite a falling market, we are no better off than a car, according to a Fac ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-25
On the ferry heading to Jiuzhou port in Zhuhai, I caught sight of some interesting fishing nets. I was told they were tsang pang (罾棚), large square nets that can easily be lowered and raised from the ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
A seller of a 1,000-square-foot apartment in Hong Kong recently advertised his property as a "palace". We can consider it dark humor but the exaggerated claim indeed reflects the disquieting truth abo ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
Shed a tear for the top echelon of expats in Hong Kong's finance and banking sector. The housing allowances fat enough to rent a 4,000 square foot harbor-view home on the Peak or a townhouse in Repuls ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
... about 102 square meters of internal space, plus a front and back garden. An even narrower house measuring about 2.1 metes was put up for sale for £200,000 in Haringey, north London in 2014. -- Contact ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-13
On May 20, Tsai Ying-wen takes office as the second president of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Taiwan since the end of Japanese rule in 1945. Most of the 6.9 million who voted f ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-09
... f 110,000 square feet. Many Tesla owners complain that the service center lacks sufficient capacity and staff to serve the customers. There are long queues of Tesla cars on nearby roads and sidewalks. ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-05
