Firebombs were thrown into two entrances at the Next Media headquarters in Tseung Kwan O at around 1 a.m. Monday, Apple Daily reported. Security guards called the police, and investigations are ongoin ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
It's not a big surprise if government authorities treat with suspicion political journalists from publications known to be critical of Beijing. Entry bans have often been used to keep out pesky foreig ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
It was no surprise when House News closed in July, in a move apparently linked to political pressure from Beijing, given the popular online news portal's credibility among Hongkongers and the huge inf ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-24
Pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, who quit as chairman of Next Media on Sunday, has not turned his back on the business. Though he has resigned from the company, Lai will continue to work in the indus ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-16
It's hard to imagine Apple Daily without Jimmy Lai. After all, he has been closely involved in every aspect of its operations from the newsroom to the boardroom. But make no mistake about it. The man ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-15
There's no doubt outspoken school teacher Ng Mei-lan is dedicated to her work and willing to take responsibility for her actions. So today, she will report for work as usual, then head to the police p ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
Signs of division appear in the ranks of the pro-democracy camp after the three Occupy Central founders and pan-democrat lawmakers did not join the Hong Kong Federation of Students and Scholarism in s ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
Journalists' organizations condemned the arrest of an Apple Daily photographer, who was accused of assaulting the police in Mong Kok on Thursday night. The Hong Kong Journalists Association called the ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-28
The outlook on Hong Kong Television Network Ltd. (HKTV, 01137.HK) is hazy as the new business model that its chairman Ricky Wong Wai-kay is pursuing is yet to inspire confidence, columnist T Y Ko wrot ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-21
Media tycoon and pro-democracy supporter Jimmy Lai was attacked by some men at the Occupy protest site in Admiralty in a bizarre incident Wednesday. A group of men threw rotten animal organs at Lai as ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-13
Hong Kong pop singer Gloria Tang, better known as G.E.M., has not encountered any difficulties in applying for a concert license in mainland China. Tang's Nov. 22 concert in Nanning, Guangxi province, ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-12
Taiwan student activist Lin Fei-fan has applauded the courage of the leaders of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) for their decision to take the pro-democracy fight to Beijing, Ming Pao Dail ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-04
As Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement enters its fifth week, mounting evidence suggests that cyber attacks designed to undermine the campaign originate from China. According to a new report from cyber ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-04
A journalist group is ripping into Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB) after it demoted an assistant news editor responsible for the broadcast of a video showing Hong Kong police beating a pro-democracy ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-04
An American aide to a prominent pro-democracy activist has been forced to move his family out of Hong Kong for safety reasons and pressed to deny that he is a spy for the United States, but he is vowi ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-31
Staff from the news department at Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB) has complained about the management's alleged decision to edit the station's video report on the brutal police action against a pro-d ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-16
Hong Kong's High Court has ordered protesters camped outside Next Media, the publisher of Apple Daily, to stop their occupation of the premises. A judge issued a restraining order early Tuesday mornin ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-14
A lawyer for Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying had tried to prevent a newspaper article alleging that Hong Kong's top official received secret payments from an Australian engineering firm from being pub ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-10
Jimmy Lai, the founder of Next Media Ltd. (00282.HK), is on the cover of the latest Asian edition of TIME magazine. Its cover photo for the story, "The Umbrella Revolution", shows a man holding an umb ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-03
Media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying visited the headquarters of Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) Wednesday afternoon. Lai, the founder of Next Media Ltd. (00282.HK) and a promi ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-17
