... ast China Sea. "The situation around Japan is changing," Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Sunday. "The level of defense spending reflects the amount necessary to protect Japan's air, sea and land an ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-14
Searchers have found the cockpit voice recorder from the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet, Reuters reported Tuesday. Investigators had been waiting for the key piece of evidence to determine the caus ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-13
Indonesian navy divers retrieved one of the two black boxes Monday from an Indonesia AirAsia airliner that crashed into the sea two weeks ago, killing all 162 people on board, a government official sa ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
... lity of a sea route to Europe over the top of Russia. In 2013, China also became a permanent observer at the Arctic Council, the decision-making body for the region. For Greenland and its government, ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
Search teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet detected pings that may show the location of the black box flight recorders, 12 days after the plane went missing with 162 people on boar ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-09
Indoesian officials said on Wednesday that search teams looking for underwater wreckage of the crashed AirAsia passenger jet have located the tail of the aircraft, bolstering hopes for retrieval of th ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-07
Indonesian authorities said on Monday that a naval patrol vessel has found what could be the tail of the AirAsia passenger jet that crashed into the sea on Dec. 28, boosting hopes for retrieval of the ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-06
Bad weather forced Indonesian authorities to conduct underwater search operations for the wreckage of the crashed AirAsia jetliner only briefly on Sunday, with officials also saying that they are yet ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-05
... into the sea off Indonesia on Dec. 28 with 162 people on board. Search teams are still trying to retrieve all the victims, and the black boxes that could tell what happened in its last minutes. In an ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
... years if sea pollution at the Pearl River estuary continued to worsen, the report said. -- Contact us at [email protected] TL/AC/CG ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
Early in 2013, the Philippine government initiated international arbitral proceedings against China over their maritime dispute in the South China Sea. Beijing announced that it would not take part, a ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-31
Relatives of passengers on a missing AirAsia plane wept as they watched Indonesian searchers on television pulling bodies and wreckage from the sea off the coast of Borneo Tuesday, Reuters reported. I ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-31
... uring the search operation, was quoted by the Kompas.com website as saying. "The debris is red and white," Djoko Murjatmodjo, acting director general of air transportation at the transportation minist ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
A missing AirAsia jet carrying 162 people likely crashed off the Indonesian coast and could be at the bottom of the sea. "Based on our coordinates, we expect it is in the sea, so for now [we think] it ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-29
... nd rising sea levels. While these future costs cannot be predicted with precision, recent estimates put the current social cost of each added ton of atmospheric CO2 at US$10-100, with the US governme ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-29
Even before the West Island Line extension of the MRT opens on Dec. 28, Kennedy Town, which the new line will link to Sheung Wan district, has been experiencing a sea change. With their eye on the fre ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-24
... along the sea route. The ambitious initiative looks set to benefit the infrastructure sector, railways in particular. The One Belt, One Road plan would enable China to open up new markets and tackle t ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
... ce of the sea and in satellite measurements of the troposphere. But the reason it has occurred is not that our greenhouse-gas emissions are no longer changing the earth’s climate; it is that surface t ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
... s the Red Sea into the Mediterranean, with a stop in Athens before meeting the land-based Silk Road in Venice. The ambitious plan will have various benefits for China strategically, Yiu said. And it w ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-19
... nd rising sea levels. Some environmental groups, however, said the deal, reached at a tent city on a military base in the Peruvian capital, was far too weak. "We went from weak to weaker to weakest," ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-15
