Hong Kong has no plans to ease curbs on cross-border purchases of infant formula anytime soon despite claims supply has stabilized. The government imposed the restrictions in 2013, limiting mainlander ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-08
The Newton Hotel in North Point “suddenly” closed last week. Many saw this as “the first drop of blood” shed as a result of the recent slowdown in tourism in Hong Kong. So does the closing of the hote ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-04
The Octopus cards Hongkongers use on the MTR come in many designs, but none has raised as much of a stir as a similar transit card in Taiwan. Taipei metro cards featuring pictures of a Japanese porn s ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-02
A patient at a Hong Kong hospital had part of his lung removed in a medical blunder that stemmed from wrongful cancer diagnosis, it was revealed Wednesday. Ko Wing-man, Secretary for Food and Health, ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-26
... nd Health Ko Wing-man doesn't seem to be bothered about these issues at all and has taken no precautionary measures against them whatsoever. Instead, he appears to be preoccupied with something else, ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-24
In an online forum post that has gone viral in Hong Kong, a female netizen expressed her grief over being called a “bitch” after she told her girl friend that she was making a wrong marriage decision. ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-22
... r by Hong Kong taxi drivers is a typical example of how traditional interests get in the way of innovation. The next hurdle is the government. In fact, governments are often ambivalent about technolog ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
The uptrend in interest rates on renminbi time deposits will continue in Hong Kong following the Chinese currency's recent slide, according to a top executive of a local bank. Margaret Leung Ko May-ye ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-19
Hongkongers have undergone a massive change in their impression of the city they live in. We now wonder whether the tap water at home is lead-free. Old trees on the roadside have suddenly been choppe ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-11
In recent months Hong Kong has witnessed a surge in the number of phone scams. A survey indicated that as many as 47 percent of our citizens received such phoney calls. Most of the scammers were calli ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-11
... nd Health Ko Wing-man said the hospital staff had done their best. A spokesman for the hospital, which is in Tung Chung, said a security guard received a passerby's report at 4.46 p.m. Saturday and ru ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-10
Actor Chow Yun-fat, famous for his roles in Hong Kong gangster movies and comedies, came in 24th on the Forbes list of "The World’s Highest-Paid Actors 2015", released this week. The US financial maga ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-08
As the game starts, players are drawn to the Glory Building in Hong Kong by an advertisement for rent of one dollar. However, when they arrive, a big notice immediately catches their eye. It says the ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-05
Hong Kong people who came down with food poisoning from imported Taiwanese sandwiches are not getting much sympathy from the island's netizens. Some said sandwiches should not be casually brought in b ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-05
... Estate in Kowloon City, Kwai Luen Estate in Kwai Chung, Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate, Shui Chuen O Estate in Sha Tin and Wing Cheong estate in Sham Shui Po. Convenor Andrew Wan, who is also Democratic Pa ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-03
Six water samples collected from Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate were found to contain excessive levels of lead, with one sample having 2.84 times the limit for lead content under World Health Organization ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-30
Secretary for Food and Health Dr. Ko Wing-man has sought to allay fears that children found to have excessive lead levels in their blood would experience stunted intellectual growth. Ko said signs of ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
... all Hong Kong industries, it begins to stand out. And for many average wage earners, the comparison doesn't stop there. Many are beginning to think that being married to a nurse is a shortcut to a be ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-25
A coroner returned an open verdict Thursday after an investigation into a 10-year-old girl who fell to her death at her school building in 2013. Coroner Ko Wai-hung said the evidence was not conclusiv ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
Tuen Mun Hospital has reported a medical error that affected more than 9,400 patients, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Thursday. The hospital’s department of pathology wrongly calibrated an in ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-23
