New York Times sacked its first-ever female executive editor Jill Abramson on Wednesday in a development that highlights the income disparity between male and female executives in the US city -- and e ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-16
A clubhouse sandwich in Hong Kong’s major hotels costs more than the same order in a similar establishment in New York, according to an index compiled by Hotels.com. The index, which compares sandwich ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-14
... The New York Times reported Sunday that National University of Singapore (NUS) archaeology professor John Miksic is advising the government on the new school text "Singapore: The Making of a Nation- ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-13
... d the New York Times. China claims almost the entire South China Sea, an area covering 2 million square kilometers that is estimated to possess vast oil and gas reserves as large as 200 billion barrel ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-13
... h 48, New York (43), San Francisco (42) and Los Angeles (38). Britain also leads the world in the number of billionaires per capita, with one in every 607 people. That compares with one in a million A ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12
... like New York and London -- it’s not exclusive for Hong Kong. “There is huge inflation in the housing market, lack of affordability, people not able to enter the housing market easily … that’s London ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12
Chinese police will join their French counterparts in patrolling key tourist sites in Paris this summer to protect Chinese tourists, the New York Times reported. However, French authorities have yet t ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-09
... ading New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority for two years. A dozen members of the Labour Party and the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) staged protests outside the v ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-08
A Chinese phone bidder paid US$24 million, or US$27 million with Christie's fees, for Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" at the auction house's Impressionist and modern art sale in New York Tuesday, the Wa ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-07
... ank’s New York branch as a specialist in US government bonds. In 1983, he decided to conceal his US$70,000 loss in trading Federal Reserve Notes to protect his reputation and job. He continued trading ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-29
... like New York and London. A pedestrian-friendly Des Voeux Road Central will enhance connectivity and pedestrian movement, reduce traffic congestion, promote business, and improve roadside air quality ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-29
... like New York and London. A pedestrian-friendly Des Voeux Road Central will enhance connectivity and pedestrian movement, reduce traffic congestion, promote business, and improve roadside air quality ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-28
... eni's New York-based trading unit Columbia Grain Trading Inc., the report said. The group still could not determine the identities of the three or why they were detained, Marubeni spokesman Kazuo Hana ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-24
... year. New York-listed Sina Corp, NetEase and Sohu.com fail to meet the revenue requirements, the report noted. Meanwhile, Tencent chairman Ma Huateng has pledged to invest at least 10 billion yuan in ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-24
... their New York-listed shares languished for years due to slow growth and lack of investor interest. Most of those companies faced little or no opposition to their buyout offers because their founders ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-22
... , the New York Times reported, citing state news media. The proposed plant, to be located in the city of Tangshan in Hebei province, would supply one million tons of fresh water each day, which could ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-22
... y the New York-based auctioneer. "A famous work can always be sold at a good price. Taking smaller pieces out for auction is also a good opportunity to test collectors' artistic quotient," C.K. Cheung ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-22
... n the New York Stock Exchange. However, this does not mean by any means that the clouds have lifted. Far from it. For the last few years, the American investing public shied away from Chinese companie ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-22
... ub of New York on Wednesday. The jobless rate of 6.7 percent is more than a percentage point higher than the top end of the Fed's estimate of full employment, while inflation is more than a percentage ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-17
... ng in New York later this year in what is expected to be the biggest public offering since Facebook in 2012, the report said. Alibaba scrapped plans to list in Hong Kong after regulators rejected a go ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-16
