... om sailed south and settled in Hong Kong. Today, Hong Kong regards the carp as an auspicious symbol. It is thought to have kept the narrow channel free from disasters. In the Qing dynasty (1644 to 191 ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
... se in the South Asian nation. The move to prune the India branches comes as part of the London-based bank's efforts to cut costs and improve earnings. Since 2011, the bank has exited at least 80 busin ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
... over the South China Sea on Tuesday. Hong urged Washington to stop such “close-in reconnaissance activities”, saying they pose a security threat to China. US defense officials earlier said the Pentag ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
... 2,000 and South Korea's US$27,000. Meanwhile, Ma did make some progress in improving the job market. The unemployment rate dropped to 3.9 percent from a high of 6 percent in 2010. But it remains worse ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-19
Two Chinese fighter jets carried out an "unsafe" intercept of a US military aircraft on Tuesday over the South China Sea, according to the Pentagon. The incident happened in international airspace as ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-19
Passengers on the MTR’s South Island Line (East) (SIL(E)) can expect to pay between HK$5.20 (67 US cents) and HK$8 for a journey within Hong Kong Island when the line starts operating by the end of th ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-18
Google is taking on the South Korean government over restrictions to its mapping services in the country, which it says make some maps less reliable than those in North Korea. Google says South Korea’ ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-18
... Japan and South Korea should be allowed to develop nuclear weapons to counter Pyongyang. "I would speak to him. I would have no problem speaking to him," Trump said of Kim. North Korea’s mission to th ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-18
... ties with Southeast Asia, Japan and the US -- the looking-south policy -- and reducing dependence on China. This was the policy pursued by the last DPP administration from 2000 to 2008 but with limite ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-16
... ds in the South China Sea this year. Chinese defense ministry spokesman Yang Yujun expressed "strong dissatisfaction" and "firm opposition" to the Pentagon report, according to Reuters. The report "hy ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-16
Tarte Tatin, an upside-down pastry, is, like many inventions, the (delicious) result of an accident. It was created at the Hotel Tatin in Lamotte-Beuvron, a small town about 160 kilometers south of Pa ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-13
... oint is a South Lantau school for boys with emotional and behavioral problems. It is the target of a concerted effort by some district councilors and local residents to have it removed. They fear its ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-13
... toy, the South China Morning Post. -- Contact us at [email protected] BK/AC/FL ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-13
... e time in south Lantau and will now be relocated in Tuen Mun. It was quite bad enough when objections were raised by the headmaster of a neighboring "normal" school who labeled the incoming students a ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-13
Hyundai Motor and affiliate Kia Motors are planning three low-cost sport utility vehicles (SUVs) for China, their biggest market. It's a big shift for the South Korean automakers, whose strategy of ap ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-12
... Germany, South Korea and China, with a combined share of 70 percent. By 2014, robotics sales soared in China, which became the largest market of industrial robots with a 25 percent share of the globa ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-11
A US navy warship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The freedom of navigation operation by the USS William P. Lawrence, travelling within 12 nautical ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-10
... n, Japan, South Korea and France. There's also the magnificent staircase leading to Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery in Sha Tin, flanked by 500 gilded statues of arhats. On Lantau Island, the hilly Ngon ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-10
A Taiwanese group has intervened in the Philippines' international court case against Beijing's claims in the South China Sea, arguing that Taiwan is entitled to a swathe of the disputed waterway as a ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-10
... American South continues to bear the legacy of slavery and the Civil War. The result is social tensions, political blockage and an inability to reform or modernize. By calling a referendum, Britain h ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-10
