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
Next Media boss Jimmy Lai was said to have spent HK$3 million (US$387,094) to HK$3.5 million to support the advertising of the mock referendum exercise on June 22 organized by the Occupy Central movem ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-05
As Beijing is about to unveil the electoral framework for the 2017 chief executive election, the need to win the hearts and minds of the Hong Kong people has become even more urgent. With the pan-demo ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-01
Husband: Honey, guess what? My popularity is rising. Wife: Honey, I am so happy for you. I kept my mouth shut, too. I know you didn't laugh, but that's meant to be a joke, about the morning the news c ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-30
The sudden closure of pro-democracy news site House News Saturday not only sent shock waves through Hong Kong's pan-democrat community, it also raised a bigger question: How long can Next Media's Appl ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-28
Legislators James To and Claudia Mo and former lawmaker Tanya Chan have categorically denied that they received donations of HK$500,000 (US$ 64,510) each from Next Media boss Jimmy Lai, after the latt ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-24
Ding! Ding! And the bell has sounded on a new smear campaign by the pro-Beijing camp against the pan-democrats. The latest target is Next Media chairman Jimmy Lai over his support for the opposition c ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-22
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying is back in the spotlight as some confidential information stored on the computer of a close associate mysteriously found its way to newspaper offices late Monday. The ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-22
Next Media (00282.HK) chairman Jimmy Lai, an active supporter of pro-democracy groups in Hong Kong, appears to have had some consultations with Shih Ming-teh, one of the most prominent figures in Taiw ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-22
Hong Kong stocks opened firmer on Thursday as fears over the Occupy Central movement, triggered partly by downbeat comments from HSBC and Barclays, subsided, helping the market come off the post-July ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-10
I was in Guangzhou and Foshan over the weekend, and I never felt farther from Hong Kong, which is just two hours away. Of course, I could still watch TVB Jade and TVB Pearl in South China, but half of ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-07
As knockoffs go, it was a rotten Apple Daily -- and now it's offline. A counterfeit mainland version of the pro-democracy tabloid, which until Wednesday sported the name and logo of the genuine produ ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-26
Next Media (00282.HK) chairman Jimmy Lai, a supporter of the pro-democracy Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong, came in for some grilling at a forum on Sunday over his meeting last month with former ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-23
Outspoken newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai said he has never thought America will help Hong Kong because it has long betrayed the city, Apple Daily reported on Friday. Lai, chairman of Next Media (00282. ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-20
An international hacker organization calling itself Anonymous HK has declared war on hackers who attacked pro-democracy websites in Hong Kong ahead of a mock referendum on electoral reform. However, t ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-19
Next Media Ltd. (00282.HK) chairman Jimmy Lai is said to have met Paul Wolfowitz, a former US deputy secretary of defense, last month in Hong Kong, Singtao Daily reported Thursday. The meeting took pl ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-19
Next Media Ltd. has denounced an unprecedented denial-of-service attack on its Hong Kong and Taiwan websites as a serious infringement of press freedom and a clear attempt to counter Hong Kong's fight ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-19
June has been a busy month for media mogul Jimmy Lai. The chairman of Next Media, who runs Apple Daily and Next Magazine in Hong Kong and Taiwan, will celebrate the paper’s 19th anniversary on Friday. ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-18
Staff at Next Media are working to get content online after the company's Hong Kong website was hacked at 3.30am Wednesday. The attack, just days before the June 22 Occupy Central poll on political re ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-18
