A parking spot at a luxury residential building in western Mid-Levels in Hong Kong is said to have been sold for a record HK$4.24 million (US$546,906), adding to the city's well-known notoriety as a h ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-21
... evival in Western demand, and imports shrank 8.5 percent.Cconditions are not likely to improve in the second quarter unless the political crisis is resolved, research company Capital Economics was quo ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
... nd on the Western Kowloon Highway after a motorcycle cop gave chase to a rider doing 269 kilometers per hour in an 80 kph zone. The rider was just too fast for the policeman who quickly faded into the ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
... however, Western Europe has secularized considerably, and the notion of basing political decisions on Catholic social teaching now strikes voters as quaint. As a result, the center-right parties appe ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-19
The China Journalist Association, an organization managed by the Communist Party, has dismissed western media criticisms that the country has one of the world's most restrictive media environments. Al ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-16
... ntral and western Africa and T. b. rhodesiense in eastern Africa – are transmitted through the bite of an infected tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans morsitan). In the early 20th century, HAT epidemics de ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-16
... gap with Western Europe today is smaller than it has been at any point since the year 1500. Given that the EU’s combined GDP is eight times larger than that of Russia, we should expect a path toward ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-15
... r to some Western democracies, in the city’s political structure under the Basic Law. The truth is the Legco runs independently from the executive authorities in accordance with their own rules and pr ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-14
... ts at the western end of the West Kowloon cultural district alongside museum M+, which was designed by Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron. Louis Yu Kwok-lit, executive director of performing arts ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-13
... s and pro-Western South Korea. North Korea has considerable mineral resources and a merger of the two Koreas could be an important Asian investment opportunity. Several discussions in Beijing also yie ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-13
... attacking Western democratic ideals. The Mirror Monthly published the whole document in September last year in its overseas edition. Ho, once a mainland reporter in his early career, was quoted as say ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-09
... of their Western counterparts. For example, in most European countries, there are roughly 30 doctors for every 1,000 patients; in Nigeria, that ratio is closer to 4:100,000. Given such divergences, i ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-09
... d for 280 Western medicines and 250 Chinese patent drugs, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement. The move will allow producers to set prices based on production costs and ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-08
... gthen its western-bank image while undermining its Hong Kong characteristics, Bill Mak Sui-choi, associate professor of the Department of Finance and Decision Sciences at Hong Kong Baptist University, ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-08
... ntral and western regional infrastructure. It has also implemented a "discriminatory" credit easing policy by cutting bank reserve requirement ratios (RRR) for qualified rural banks only. Arguably, th ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-08
... iddle and western parts of Africa. In 2009, China Railway Construction landed a light rail project in Mecca, Saudi Arabia for US$1.77 billion, although it announced a year later the project has result ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-07
... port said western hostile forces have taken a diversified, expanded and covert approach in China, including infiltrating missionary activities. Violent assailants involved in terrorist attacks last ye ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-07
... gion, and Western sanctions have further unnerved already skittish investors. From 2002 to 2007, and again after the global financial crisis in 2008-2009, capital flows to emerging economies surged, a ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-05
The revolution in Ukraine and Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea have generated a serious security crisis in Europe. But, with Western leaders testing a new kind of financial warfare, the situation ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-05
... hicle. In Western countries like the US, the RV lifestyle is already very popular among senior citizens. Some retirees even sell their houses and travel in RVs all year long. In China, the RV culture ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-02
