... en out-of-town choices were extremely limited, pricey and often required long trips across the city. During my earlier years living in Hong Kong, I developed a particular fondness for these Cantonese ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-17
The West Island Line extension of Hong Kong's mass railway system will open on Dec. 28, Ming Pao Daily reported Thursday. The three-kilometer section connects Sheung Wan district with Kennedy Town, wi ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-11
... the Cape Town Convention, meaning there is no territory limitation. Thus, Li does not have to rely too much on governments. Second, aircraft leasing management is much less complicated than operating ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-10
... niversity town of Berkeley, where windows were smashed, stores looted and tear gas fired at protesters, Reuters reported. Protests were planned on Sunday in dozens of cities across the country, includ ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
... hatin New Town Plaza, but the same trip cost him HK$350 when he used the Uber service another day. Taxis in Hong Kong are so cheap that Uber finds no room to compete with its UberX. That's why the gro ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
... ip out of town? At the same time, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was in Beijing with several other principal officials. She told the media her trip to the capital had nothing to do with Oc ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
... on out-of-town assignments. I was lucky to witness the golden age in the mid-1990s when publishing a newspaper was like printing money. That was when the South China Morning Post, where I worked for a ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
... DX in downtown Los Angeles. More than 100 seats buck and dip in close synchronization with the action on the screen. Compressed air blasts from headrests to simulate flying bullets. Fans provide a gen ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
... in a new town development. The company paid a land premium of HK$1,874 per square foot of gross floor area for the plot in LOHAS Park earmarked for the fifth phase of a new town project, the Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-27
... in out of town as police carry out the clearing operations. CY Leung is in South Korea while Chief Secretary Carrie Lam is visiting Beijing. The government is showing its lack of confidence to face th ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
A giant Ferris Wheel will be the talk of the town when it opens in Hong Kong in about two weeks, potentially pushing the Occupy campaign off the top headlines in local media. Well, that is what top go ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
... d Kennedy Town Stations will open next month, while Sai Ying Pun Station is expected to open at the end of the first quarter of 2015 -- Contact us at [email protected] JZ/JP/RC ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-20
... iday, the Town Planning Board will review a draft zoning plan that includes a proposed widening of the no-build zone. The villagers reject such a plan and are demanding to be allowed to build more hou ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-20
... rsial new-town project in the northeastern New Territories. The proposed new security measures have come under fire from pro-democracy groups. Alex Chow, secretary general of the Hong Kong Federation ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-19
... facturing town halfway between Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The activist, known only as Day, put up three banners with simplified Chinese characters, Apple Daily reported Friday. Day commutes between Hong ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-14
... d Kennedy Town, won’t stop at the first of the three stations, because work on the exits there won’t be completed in time. In recent years, the embattled railway operator has never lacked for construc ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-12
... d Kennedy Town sections. The Sai Ying Pun line will open in the first quarter next year. The three-kilometer line, which cost HK$18.5 billion (US$2.39 billion), will connect Hong Kong's old business d ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-11
... truck the town of L'Aquila, in Italy's central Abruzzo region, at 3:32 a.m. on April 6, 2009, killing more than 300 people, injuring more than 1,500 others and destroying tens of thousands of building ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-11
A suicide bomber dressed as a student killed at least 48 people, most of them students, at a school assembly in the Nigerian town of Potiskum, Reuters reported. A hospital official said 79 others were ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-11
... theastern town of Nong Khai, Reuters reported Thursday. Thai police said Neij will be extradited to Sweden to serve a jail term. Neij told reporters in Bangkok that his arrest was "expected" but did n ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-06
