Autumn is the best time to visit Xiangshan Park, a picturesque imperial garden at the foot of the Western Mountains in northwestern Beijing. That's when the maple trees explode with their fiery red an ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-06
... ge at the imperial court to weed out crime. -- Contact us at [email protected] EL/AC/CG ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-05
Tim Cook was hailed as a gay icon when he came out last week -- but not everybody is celebrating the announcement. Not Russia. On Friday, the former imperial capital, St. Petersburg, demolished a memo ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-04
... and look imperial in every way. A poster of the hairstyle has been shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook and more than 11, 000 times on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. No wonder NPM is out ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-08
... , eighth; Imperial College London and Yale University, tied at ninth. The University of Chicago, ranked ninth last year, dropped to 11th. -- Contact us at [email protected] RA/JL ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-03
... ed during imperial times. It symbolizes Japanese nationalism but is also controversial for celebrating the country's imperialist and militaristic past. [Go to Facebook] -- Contact us at [email protected] ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-25
... ation and Imperial College, London, estimated that 20,000 people risk infection within six weeks. They warned that the disease might become a permanent feature of life in West Africa. "Without drastic ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-24
... on of the Imperial Palace since 1994. The family foundation has also been sponsoring about 500 students from five top universities in the country, including Beijing University and Tsinghua University, ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-16
... g Dynasty imperial consort, Fragrant Concubine (or Rongfei, her palace name). In the context provided by top officials in Beijing, her story represents a theme of ethnic unity among the Han and the Ui ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-29
... When the Imperial War Museum in London re-opened in July after a refurbishing that cost £40 million (US$66.35), there was no mention of the Chinese workers in the new World War I gallery. The campaig ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-22
... ne is the Imperial Museum at St. John’s Building in Central, which was founded in February 2013 by renowned connoisseur Paul Kan. Kan, who is chairman of Champion Technology Group and the Chinese Worl ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-15
... r private imperial garden attached to the grounds of the Forbidden City, came in second. Beihai Park and the city’s botanical garden were fourth and 10th, respectively. The top 10 included Shanghai’s ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-13
... ouses the imperial collection of the Ming and Qing dynasties, are constantly thinking of new, fun ways to get the younger generation interested in China's rich cultural past. And now things are slowl ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-05
Imperial Pacific International Holdings Ltd. (01076.HK), an investor in Macau VIP operator Hengsheng Group, has been granted a conditional casino license in the US territory of the Northern Mariana Is ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-16
... he former imperial palace in the heart of Beijing, is said to have sold 22,000 tickets in just an hour after it opened on Thursday. Buses are crowded and roads and subway systems in many cities across ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-02
The empresses were everywhere in 2012 but from 2015 they'll have to cut back on their TV appearances. Empresses in the Palace, a tale of political intrigue in a Qing dynasty imperial court, seemed to ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-16
... n" in the Imperial Palace. -- Contact HKEJ at [email protected] TL/JP/RC ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-16
... s made in imperial kilns during the emperor Chenghua’s reign in the 15th century, surpassed the previous record of HK$252.7 million paid for a yellow-ground famille-rose vase in October 2010, also at ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-09
