United States-led coalition forces have carried out sustained air attacks on Islamic State fighters closing in on the Syrian border town of Kobani, after Turkey's president warned it was about to fall ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-08
Despite air strikes by US and Gulf state forces against them, Islamic State militants have advanced into the Syrian border town of Kobani, forcing its mainly Kurdish inhabitants to flee into Turkey. S ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-07
... Norwegian town of Trondheim. Medicine is the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year, Reuters reported. It will be followed by the announcement of the physics prize on Tuesday, the chemistry prize ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-06
South Africa won't hold a summit of Nobel laureates after the government in Cape Town, which was to host the event, canceled it. The decision came after several participants threatened to boycott the ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-03
Turkey's parliament authorized the government to order military action against Islamic State on Thursday as the insurgents tightened their grip on a Syrian border town, sending thousands more Kurdish ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-03
... ew around town that China's People's Liberation Army had crossed the border, and the Tamar site would be cleared of protesters the next morning. What we witnessed was more tear gas was used after midn ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-30
... the home town of former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, an estimated 13,000 voters massed for a glimpse of Doi,” the report also said. In addition to Doi’s popularity, the opposition parties took ad ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-30
... y Kurdish town of Kobani in northern Syria has sparked an exodus of tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds, and raised concern that the fighting would spill over into Turkey. Turkey has signaled it is read ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-30
... t the two towns, had been widely expected by Tuen Mun residents, many of whom have been lured to the district by such a prospect. Instead, the government is planning the Tuen Mun South Extension Line, ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-19
... y game in town is to buy sovereign debt, which is what banks are doing. Which, of course, pushes down rates. Low interest rates in Europe are as much a result of regulatory policy as of monetary polic ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-11
... ta at the Town Planning Board, at least six projects have sought to accommodate more smaller units that would raise the supply number to 10,800 from 6,699 units, equivalent to 57 percent of the target ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-08
... al to the Town Planning Board by the end of the year, with a view to starting construction early next year. -- Contact us at [email protected] VW/RA ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-03
... in Duofu town in Nanchong city for about five years and later spent more time in other temples in Jincheng Mountain and elsewhere. His older sister was quoted as saying that Peng had become a devout ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-02
... ndustrial town on the southern Hong Kong island, for more than ten years. Their house is indeed an ancient-style sampan and it is said that a fully fitted-out boat nowadays only costs HK$1-2 million. ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-02
... t in YOHO Town in Yuen Long costs HK$6 million. It's little surprise many younger prospective buyers are taking this route to home ownership at the expense of people with genuine housing needs. Govern ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-02
... ng. Urban town planning experts said the proposed 20 percent addition should be the maximum, and that any further increase in the plot ratio could damage the skyline near the Lion Rock landmark. Membe ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-02
... commuter town that enables convenient travel to the Chinese University, City University, Baptist University and Polytechnic University, were snapped up by mainlanders. Some realty brokers say other d ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-01
... ly to the Town Planning Board in advance. Despite the rule, Pui O has seen some waste being dumped in the sensitive zone, forcing the relocation of some buffalos from the area. Ho Pui-han, chairperson ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-01
Iraqi troops, aided by US airstrikes, on Sunday broke a months-long blockade of Shiite Turkmen town Amerli by Islamic State militants, the Washington Post reported. "Amerli has been liberated," Mahdi ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-01
... nto a new town of 700,000 people and increase support for the Vocational Training Council and the Employees Retraining Board to enable them to to train an additional 40,000 people every year. On the o ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-29
