... Imperial West, its new campus in west London. The concept of the 10 hectare site, which was built at a cost of £3 billion (US$4.7 billion), reflected London's latest themes: “Science City” and “Medic ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-16
A UN commission has recommended that creditors should seriously consider debt cancellation for the countries worst-hit by the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. "Educational systems, rising social stigma, ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-16
... n and the West Kowloon Cultural District project. In just a few years, the ventures have seen their cost balloon to an uncontrollable level, with 9 out of 10 projects going over-budget and all of them ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-15
... hy in the West but did not affect the outcome -- at most, it delayed the timing of the clearances. But there is much in the negative column for Beijing. The protests revealed a deep anger of a large s ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-12
... uly 2009. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude slid 1.6 percent. Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi said the market will correct itself, Bloomberg reported Friday. Global demand for crude from the Organiz ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-12
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
... with the west to allow for the lifting of sanctions and build a more sustainable, diversified economy. The alternative would be to attempt to divert popular discontent at home by expanding Russia’s i ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-09
... st on the West Coast. New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said he will review the results of an internal investigation of the July incident to decide whether any police wrongdoing was involved i ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policy toward his country’s “near abroad” and the West has been badly misunderstood. Instead of focusing on broader geopolitical patterns – in particular, the effect ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
... e central west coast city Saturday. He quit as a legislator several days before the election and beat the incumbent mayor, Jason Hu of the establishment Kuomintang (KMT). In a statement on his Faceboo ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-02
... pe that a west European country such as Sweden might grant him asylum. The awards jury, in its citation, said Snowden was being honoured “for his courage and skill in revealing the unprecedented exten ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-02
... anchin of West Virginia argue, entirely convincingly, that the composition of the Fed’s board of governors should be tilted away from people who are connected with big Wall Street firms. Meanwhile, Ho ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
... ny in the west who automatically equated their religion with terrorism. The pope's predecessor, Benedict XVI, caused storms of protest throughout the Islamic world in 2006 when he made a speech that s ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
... oping the West Kowloon Cultural District, reducing poverty and promoting political reform – Tsang appears to work part time. His main job, we know, is writing his Sunday blog posts. This month, he eve ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-28
... sion, the West Texas Intermediate benchmark fell below US$70 a barrel for the first time in over four years, while the Brent contract for January fell 6.3 percent to $72.82 a barrel on the ICE Futures ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-28
An experimental Ebola vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline has passed early safety tests, offering hope for some breakthrough in the fight against the disease that has claimed thousands of lives in West Af ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-27
... tract for West Texas Intermediate, the US-focused barometer was US$73.95 a barrel, a four-year low, according to USA Today. OPEC has a formal supply target of 30 million barrels a day but for the past ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-27
... ce is The Westpoint, one of the tallest office towers in Sai Ying Pun that dwarfs the mostly old tenement blocks in the district. The 41-storey, 187-meter tower with a spherical observation penthouse ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
Former British prime minister Tony Blair urged Western nations to cooperate with Russian President Vladimir Putin in fighting Islamist extremism, which he calls “the largest long-term security threat ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
... country’s west coast. Australian authorities last month identified two broad areas where the jetliner is likely to have crashed, based on communications between the plane and an Inmarsat satellite. Bu ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
