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
Is a political donation a bribe? More importantly, does free speech rise to a level that should prompt an investigation by our anti-corruption watchdog? We couldn't help raising these questions after ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-29
Hong Kong's anti-corruption watchdog is being accused of political persecution after investigators visited the homes of a prominent media publisher and a pro-democracy politician, Ming Pao Daily repor ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-29
Hong Kong's anti-graft officials visited the homes of Next Media Ltd. (0282.HK) boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and that of his top aide Mark Simon, along with that of Labour Party leader Lee Cheuk-yan, fuel ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-28
Officials from Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) conducted a search at the apartment of Next Media Group chairman Jimmy Lai Chee-ying Thursday morning, according to an RTHK ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-28
The crux of universal suffrage may not be who nominates but who gets nominated. That's the lesson of the ice bucket challenge, which poured into town this week. Whether you are the girlfriend of Asia' ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-20
Next Media Group chairman Jimmy Lai Chee-ying on Thursday appeared on a short video in response to an anonymous obituary published by a local newspaper, saying he is sorry to have disappointed the aut ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-14
It's rather late in the day but the lateness of the hour is not stopping the Hong Kong government from a last-minute campaign to get Hong Kong people to accept an electoral reform package that is less ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-08
Hong Kong student activist group Scholarism took the lid off its financial books for the first time Wednesday, revealing that it has raised a total of HK$3 million (US$387,074) in contributions since ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-07
Next Media has formally filed a report with the Hong Kong police relating to the suspected hacking of its computers last month. The complaint was filed with the Tseung Kwan O police station on Wednesd ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-07
There's a price for everything, especially if you're talking about hiring a former Hong Kong government official for a certain service. For former chief secretary Anson Chan, it was HK$3 million (US$3 ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-05
Media mogul Jimmy Lai's top aide Mark Simon admitted that his father had worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency for 35 years. As for Simon himself, he hasn't had any links with the US governmen ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-05
