Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress Rita Fan Lai-tai said the NPC is unlikely to change its decision on the arrangements for the 2017 election in Hong Kong unless there are new and powe ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-08
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has discovered new Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE) materials that will help produce better-quality fingerprints compared to the existing m ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-25
The seating plan says it all and the body language is even more telling. Here, China's rigid communist protocol is cleanly laid out for all to see. It's a delicate art in which what is said is sometim ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
Executive councilor Bernard Chan has stoked rumors about a potential run for chief executive in 2017 after giving an extensive interview about Hong Kong's political development. Chan's father Robin, c ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
Is Asia Television (ATV), the smaller of Hong Kong's free-to-air TV broadcasters, poised for an ownership change? And if so, who is the buyer and what is prompting the interest? Well, rumors regardin ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
President Xi Jinping said China will reconsider its policy on outbound tours in response to concerns in Hong Kong, Sing Tao Daily reported Tuesday. Xi made the comment during a meeting with a Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
Seating arrangement in any political gathering and formal group photograph is always tricky, especially so in China where authorities constantly use official events to send signals to the outside worl ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
Police will stop Occupy Central protesters from reentering key areas in Hong Kong's main business and financial district if they break up to skirt a seven-hour window when they could be liable for obs ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-18
Hong Kong pan-democrats have been warned to return to the "normal track" if they want to have a political future, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Tuesday. Wang Guangya, chief of the Hong Kong ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-16
Investors in Hong Kong can have the chance to take part in Alibaba's mega share offering for as little as HK$200,000 (US$25,803) as the Chinese technology giant prepares for its trading debut on the N ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-15
A pro-establishment group is distancing itself from a controversial reporting hotline aimed at discouraging students from taking part in a class boycott, Sing Tao Daily reported Thursday. The Hong ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-11
Beijing finally closed the raging debate over political reform in Hong Kong when the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Aug. 31 approved a conservative proposal for the 2017 chief ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-10
The operator of the Peak Tram, which ferries people from Hong Kong's Central district to the popular tourist attraction of Victoria Peak, has proposed to replace the system's rail coaches with larger ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-03
It is never easy to raise children, and it surely is not cheap to support them until they finish college. According to the latest calculation by the Bauhinia Foundation Research Center, a middle-class ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-02
Discarded fluorescent sticks are a health hazard because they contain toxic chemicals that cannot be easily reused or recycled, Sing Tao Daily reported Monday. Half of these toys, typically used durin ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-01
Fifty percent nomination support, four sectors, three or two candidates, one framework. Hong Kong's media have a field day reporting on Beijing's universal suffrage framework. A scan of the local pape ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-01
Tired of having a dog or a cat for a pet? Why not try a sugar glider, a fennec fox or a chipmunk? These exotic animals are now traded online. Some of the sellers are licensed pet shops, while others a ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-25
A government-commissioned study released on Wednesday proposes to grant all Hong Kong people aged over 65 a pension of HK$3,000 (US$387.06) a month, but Ming Pao Daily and Sing Tao Daily said in separ ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-21
Concerns are growing in Guangzhou about potential Ebola cases in the metropolis, given the significant number of African expatriates and visitors in the city and their alleged poor living conditions a ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-21
Two tour guides were attacked by mainland tourists over smoking issues on Tuesday. In one case, local guide Chiang Lai said she was leading 15 visitors from Hebei province to Hung Hom for shopping on ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-20
