... 435 feet) Mount Kinabalu in eastern Sabah state on Borneo island. Most of the other climbers made it down the mountain in the darkness early Saturday, some with broken limbs and one in a coma, the Ass ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
... close to Mount Everest, Reuters reported, citing the US Geological Survey which put the magnitude at 7.4. People in the capital Kathmandu rushed out on to the streets as the ground began to shake, ac ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-12
... e record amounts of money Saturday's long-awaited fight brought in. Before a well-heeled crowd of 16,507 that cheered every time Pacquiao threw a punch, Mayweather dominated once again with a defensiv ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... heart to mount the kind of large-scale protest we saw last year, so they have downgraded Hong Kong's political reform issue. Pan-democrats have 27 votes in the Legislative Council and they alone can ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-29
... to climb Mount Everest. The group, three of whom are University of Hong Kong medical students and one a lawyer, are close friends. They planned to travel in Nepal between April 18 and May 6, includi ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-28
... slopes of Mount Everest that buried part of the base camp packed with foreign climbers preparing to make their summit attempts. At least 18 people died there and 61 were injured, according to the Nepa ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-27
... anches on Mount Everest, which killed at least 17 people and injured 61 others, the broadcaster said. Rescuers continued to remove victims from under the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kathmandu. Th ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-27
A Japanese magnetic levitation train broke its own world speed record, hitting 603 km/h in a test run Tuesday near Mount Fuji. The train beat the 590 km/h speed it set in a test last week, BBC News r ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-22
... nedness, amounting in his critics' eyes to paranoia, stemmed from his anticommunist faction's bitter battle for survival against the procommunists in the ruling party in the early 1960s. The English- ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
... eturn and mount attacks at home. "All Tunisians should be united after this attack which was aimed at destroying the Tunisian economy," Essid said in a national address. The local stock exchange dropp ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
... ord Louis Mountbatten, for a polo mallet. The royal couple made a stop at Mount Vernon, the country estate of the first US president, George Washington. They will visit the White House on Thursday, th ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
... swoop in, mount a proxy fight, and kick out management. Disincentives to value-destroying behavior exist in China -- but only on paper. China adopted “fiduciary duties” for directors and supervisors i ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
... e period amounts to 783, it means the Chinese make up 98 percent of the visa recipients. Once a person becomes a Jeju resident, his spouse and children are also eligible for resident visas. The immigr ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-18
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business has unveiled the design for its HK$380 million Hong Kong campus in Mount Davis. The new campus is expected to change the skyline of Hong Kong Island' ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-21
... perate to mount an all-out war on “separatists”? Beijing is aware that its retrogressive election package for 2017 will be vetoed by the Legislative Council, and it wants a scapegoat to bear all the b ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-20
... students mounted a failed siege of the Central Government Offices. He told the Hong Kong Economic Journal “it will just be a matter of time before we see the first fatal victim”. From its conception, ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-09
... ilable to mount a robust initial response when Ebola emerged, the WHO would have had a strong incentive to declare an international emergency in a timely manner. In fact, a WHO review committee recomm ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-25
... he Temple Mount because the two Biblical temples once stood there. A worshipper in the Kehillat Bnei Torah synagogue in an ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of Jewish West Jerusalem said about 25 people we ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-19
