... y paying lip service. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on March 3. Translation by Alan Lee [Chinese version 中文版] – Contact us at [email protected] CG ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-07
... Ltd.’s Alipay payments service spent as much as 800 million yuan (US$122 million) sending red packets to viewers of mainland China's widely televised Spring Festival Gala. Internet has increasingly p ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-02
... e leadership of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB). The kuk has been part of Hong Kong's political landscape for decades. It is a statutory advisory body compri ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-02
... at Regina Ip could have a hard time forming her team, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported. Tien was especially harsh on Leung Chun-ying, blaming the incumbent leader for fueling discontent in soci ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
Hong Kong is preparing to implement 15-year free education with effect from the 2017/18 school year. By that time around 70 percent of local students who are enrolled in half-day kindergartens will be ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-19
... surnamed Ip, and a woman at Ip’s flat for suspected involvement with drug dealing. Ma and the woman were granted bail later that day, while Ip remained in detention. As Ma was leaving the station, a ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-18
... that the IP (internet protocol) address posted on his Facebook account was his. Chu was charged with "misleading officers by false information" and "accessing a computer with criminal or dishonest in ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-15
... ing, principal lecturer in the department of law at the University of Hong Kong; and Kenneth Leung Kai-cheong, lawmaker for the accountancy constituency, Apple Daily reported Monday. By 8 p.m. Sunday, ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-15
... or Regina Ip, a former security minister, played down the numbers, saying these are a short-term trend. “Hongkongers are discriminated against by the British because they might not be given any consul ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-02
Legislator Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee has come under fire for suggesting that wearing a mink coat is just the same as eating beef, Apple Daily reported. Ip, chairwoman of the pro-Beijing New People's Party ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-28
... partnership with Dubai-based Al Ahli Holding Group to build a theme park, also named "20th Century Fox World", and resort in Dubai. That attraction is expected to open in 2018. "Dubai is a different ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-26
The police have invited bids for supply of three anti-riot vehicles equipped with water cannons, sparking fresh concerns among human rights activists and some lawmakers. Among other criticism being fa ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-26
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s recent policy address has put him under fire from basically all sides, including the education sector, where the grievances of workers are about to reach the tipping ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
... uring a trip to the mainland, according to a Ming Pao Daily News report Friday. The paper cited Frontline's chief editor Liu Dawen as saying that the colleague was interrogated for information about t ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
... eanwhile, Ip Kwok-him, a lawmaker from the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong who chairs the Legco panel on security, quoted Li Fei, head of the Basic Law Committee, as s ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-19
How much is too many? Secretary for Education Eddie Ng is throwing the question back at his critics who accuse him of taking too many overseas trips last year. Ng defended his 15 foreign travels in 20 ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
... ing non-slip tiles in public toilets. In other words, Leung simply failed to get his priorities right in his latest Policy Address. No wonder it was a huge letdown for the public and received the lowe ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has sparked a firestorm just hours after announcing a HK$1 billion (US$128.5 million) scholarship program for overseas students in support of China's plan to build a mo ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
... er Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, then the secretary for security, told him in 2012 that Leung would do something bad to people he did not like. This prompted him to write a letter to Leung, asking him to sto ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-14
... rs Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee and Michael Tien Puk-sun have been trying to downplay Lee's disappearance, noting that since he called his wife from the mainland, he must be safe and at liberty to do anythin ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
