The Covid-19 pandemic and National Security Law (NSL) have cast a large shadow over the Hong Kong Book Fair which opened on July 14 and runs until Tuesday. It was the first to be held for two years. T ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-19
A purported crypto entrepreneur who found himself in the news last December for a money-throwing stunt on a Hong Kong street was arrested on Thursday for suspected fraud related to sale of virtual cur ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-01
After authorities formally opened the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB), the world's longest sea crossing bridge, on Tuesday, a scene captured by cameras at the launch event, involving Hong Kong le ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-24
In mid-August, the Jean M. Wong School of Ballet, the largest and most prestigious ballet school in Hong Kong, had a cause for celebration. Jordan Chan Yeuk-hay, a 16-year-old Hong Kong student taught ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-12
A 41-year-old school teacher died in a traffic accident in Kowloon Bay. The man was riding a motorcycle on Wang Chiu Road at around 12:40 p.m. Monday when his vehicle collided with a light goods vehic ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-26
A 300-meter-long Iranian container vessel veered from its regular route and crashed into an island near Ap Lei Chau on Sunday night, Apple Daily reports. The boxship was traveling from Kaohsiung in Ta ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-06
Marathon is getting popular in Hong Kong with people from all walks of life participating in this test of fitness and endurance. However, long-distance running is a very strenuous activity, and there ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-21
The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, has told its members from Hong Kong to promote national education in local schools, a move aimed at ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-14
The three candidates vying for Hong Kong’s top post engaged in heated exchanges on education, political reform and "white terror" in their first debate before the March 26 chief executive election. Su ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-13
Veteran democracy campaigner Richard Tsoi Yiu-Cheong has had his mainland travel permit get restored, allowing him to cross the border over the weekend and make a trip to Guangzhou. Tsoi, who is vice ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-19
Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, told a Hong Kong delegation that those pushing for the city’s independence can bring nothing but calamity to China and her ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-30
As concerns continue to swirl around Beijing's perceived meddling in Hong Kong's recent Legislative Council election, a mainland official has indicated that the central government was indeed an active ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-23
The chairman of Sing Pao Media Enterprises, which publishes the Chinese-language newspaper Sing Pao Daily News, has rejected reports that he is absconding from the mainland in a bid to avoid arrest ov ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-01
Hong Kong schools have been losing their academic freedom since the 1997 handover as Beijing pursues efforts to implement patriotic education in the city's campuses. But there is an urgent need to uph ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-11
Hester Cheung Yui-shan, a surgeon at the Hong Kong Adventist Hospital in Tsuen Wan, plunged to her death Tuesday morning from her home at a high-rise building in Sai Wan Ho. It is suspected that the 4 ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-03
