On Sunday, a few days after Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor's 2019 Policy Address, Hong Kong witnessed another round of violent anti-government protests and street clashes. Amid the chaos, ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-22
... rliest. A pro-establishment figure has also pointed out that even though the national anthem law is undoubtedly less controversial than the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, and public backlash against it ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-21
If love means never having to say you're sorry, we can say the police have been giving a lot of love over the past four months. On Sunday police deployed a water-cannon truck to disperse protesters on ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-21
... n against protesters on the streets in Tsim Sha Tsui. Seeking to allay concerns of the Muslim community and reiterate that the spraying outside the mosque had been unintentional, Lam and Lo visited th ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-21
Police and pro-democracy protesters battled on the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday after tens of thousands of people staged a rally despite being refused permission by authorities. The weekend rally dr ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-21
... ronmental Protection Department have indicated that the average daily disposal quantity of plastic bags in 2017 rebounded to 793 metric tons, just a bit shy of the 867 ton level recorded in 2008, a ye ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-18
Every time you think that the Chief Executive in Name Only (CENO) and her motley crew of waxworks can sink no lower, she triumphantly proves that the absolute depths have yet to be tested. While the f ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-18
... from the pro-establishment camp. Things may still change in this year's elections as the returning officers have yet to validate and confirm the eligibility of some of the nominees. These nominees in ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-18
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the fallout following a tweet from a Houston Rockets official who backed the Hong Kong democracy protests has already cost the league substantial financial losses in ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-18
Turkey, like much of the Middle East, is discovering that what goes around comes around. Not only because President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have miscalculated the fallout of what may prove to ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-18
On Wednesday, amid protests mounted by pan-democratic lawmakers inside the Legislative Council chamber, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was unable to deliver her annual Policy Address in pe ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-17
The leader of one of Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy groups remained in hospital in stable condition after he was attacked by hammer-wielding men near Mong Kok on Wednesday night. Jimmy Sham Tsz-kit ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-17
Protesters clashed with police in the Spanish region of Catalonia on Wednesday, with some setting cars ablaze on the third day of disturbances caused by convictions handed down to leaders of a failed ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-17
... liament approve the plan, Reuters reports. “The basic foundations of this agreement are ready and theoretically we could accept a deal tomorrow,” said European Council President Donald Tusk, who will ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-17
... kling and protests by pan-democrat lawmakers. "Owing to the current circumstances, the Chief Executive ... was not able to deliver the entire Policy Address at the Legislative Council today. To allow ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-16
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed four pieces of legislation taking a hard line on China, three related to pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and one commending Canada’s government in ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-16
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Tuesday ruled out making any concessions to pro-democracy protesters in the face of escalating violence, which police said was now “life threatening” citi ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-15
LeBron James weighed in on the controversy between China and the NBA, saying that Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey “wasn’t educated” when he sent a tweet in support of protesters in Hong Ko ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-15
... of law as protected by Hong Kong’s Basic Law.” Currently, 16 senators and 25 House members from both parties have signed on as co-sponsors. The bill also directs the government to impose sanctions to ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-15
