Once upon a time there was a small hill standing between Ho Man Tin and Hung Hom. People wanting to travel between the two areas could either make a detour or take a trail uphill. Many would hesitate ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-13
... ould test King Solomon. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-09
... icials working in shipping, logistics and banking said. The head of a logistics company said surprise customs inspections at Hong Kong border posts have doubled. The increased efforts began this year ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-05
... za and Ho King Commercial Building in Mong Kok, Rise Shopping Arcade in Tsim Sha Tsui and Island Beverly in Causeway Bay. All these Ginza-style malls have been popular with the younger crowd. Neverthe ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-03
... wrote “f**king” to describe his experience, but Ruby Tuesday quickly removed it “because we do not tolerate offensive language”. Another unhappy customers vowed to take his complaint directly to Ruby ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-03
... med for making deluxe western desserts. The Taikoo Sugar Refinery, established by Swire in 1884 in Quarry Bay, enjoyed a robust business. Quite renowned it was that some urban legends had developed ar ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-29
Leon Lai Ming, a movie star dubbed one of the “Four Heavenly Kings” of Canto-pop in the 1990s, canceled a concert Thursday night just before it was to start, leaving his fans in limbo, the Hong Kong E ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-29
... to be working in one of the city’s news outlets. Even in Central, the tower where you go to work can also be your status symbol. The 415-meter, 88-storey Two International Finance Centre is indisputa ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
... core. Lau King-yuk, founder of children's training center Creative Power, said children should learn life skills from a young age and parents should let them do things on their own. -- Contact us at e ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-27
... he was working at Lingnan University. Two weeks after, Chan finds himself in another rumpus, this time involving a case of name-dropping that appears to be a veiled threat to an outspoken critic. Appa ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-27
... that the kingdom can prosper in an era of cheap oil, the news agency said. The Saudi stock market TASI jumped 2.5 percent in the heaviest trading volume for eight months. The Saudi riyal rose slight ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-26
In early colonial Hong Kong, the city had yet to standardize the medium of trade. Although the British pound and Indian rupee were listed as the only currencies for circulation in 1845, the general p ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
... au casino king Stanley Ho, bought the UNIR Garden in 2006 for HK$60 million, and later transformed it into four three-storey houses. One of the houses was rented out in 2013 for HK$200,000 a month. Th ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
... all about King Yin Lei, a conservation project. They had between 200 and 600 downloads. Still, two LCSD initiatives made it to the top 10 list of popular government apps – My Urbtix, which facilitates ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-21
... gree from King's College, was so enamored with his educational upbringing that he chose to stick with his British nationality, creating a huge contrast to the fact that he always asks Hong Kong youngs ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-20
An 18-month-old baby girl came close to being abducted in Yuen Long over the weekend, an incident that has prompted a scare among parents in the neighborhood. On Saturday, a toddler was walking along ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-18
Last week’s visit to Egypt by King Salman of Saudi Arabia resulted in 22 agreements, including a US$22 billion oil deal to prop up Egypt’s moribund economy. But the lavish aid came at a price: Egypt h ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-18
... chael Hui King-man, chairman of the council’s publicity and community relations committee, said some helpers might be doing substandard work on purpose. They might be hoping to get dismissed, receive ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-15
It has all the twists of a popular soap opera. The good thing is the story is virtually writing itself – and only God knows what the ending will be. We are talking about Wilson Fung Wing-yip, a relati ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-11
... own for taking briberies. Today's PLA navy may pale in comparison to its counterpart back in 1911, when the cruiser Hai Chi (海圻號) of the Qing navy’s Beiyang Fleet sailed past the first island chain in ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-08
