... in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Nov. 8 announcement that 500 and 1,000-rupee bills – constituting 86 percent of the cash in circulation in India – would no longer be considered legal tender a ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-23
... bank. New Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni is expected to call a cabinet meeting on Thursday to approve a decree authorizing the bank's third bailout since 2009, Reuters reports, citing political source ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-23
... t up in a prime location, next to an H&M outlet, on Dundas Street in Mongkok. Luk Fook is said to have signed a two-year lease for the 600-square-foot retail space, offering a monthly rental of H ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-21
... Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau jointly announced their move to launch "actions ensuring a strong, sustainable and viable Arctic economy and ecosystem". Obama said in a statement that the join ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-21
Gill Paul Mohindepaul Singh may not be a familiar name to most Hongkongers but how about Qbobo (literally cute baby in Cantonese)? We got to know him through TVB. Many Hongkongers were amazed by this ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-20
... utskirts. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called for a crackdown on the production and distribution of illegal alcohol in all forms. According to the Russian State Statistics Agency, 6,902 people have ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-20
... g some in prime locations. For instance, the military has a lot of land in Kowloon Tong, one of Hong Kong's most high-end residential areas. Elsewhere, a gigantic piece of land in Yuen Long that house ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-12
... ssumed by Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn on an interim basis. Park, 64, is accused of colluding with a friend and a former aide, both of whom have been indicted by prosecutors, to pressure big businesse ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-09
... with the prime minister serving as interim leader. The impeachment motion follows weeks of growing political outrage in South Korea over allegations that Park’s longtime friend, Choi Soon-sil, used t ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-08
Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is preparing to resign after voters dismissed his plans for constitutional reform. If Italy’s anti-establishment Five Star Movement wins the next general election, ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-07
... r house. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) said it hopes to enact the bill before the current parliament session ends next week, the Wall Street Journal reports. The LDP cont ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-07
Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said he is preparing to resign after voters dismissed his plans for constitutional reform. While European equity markets have reacted calmly to the referendum resul ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-06
... es sell a prime Causeway Bay property -- Windsor House -- to himself in a HK$12 billion deal. Lau, who owns nearly 75 per cent of the listed flagship, has sought to distribute special dividends to his ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-06
... d Leung's prime opponent within the pro-establishment camp. Then there was news that Financial Secretary John Tsang failed to get the green light from Beijing to his CE bid during his recent visit to ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-06
... Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigned after losing a key referendum vote, while US President-elect Donald Trump criticized China’s currency and trade policies via Twitter. The stock trading l ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-06
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has announced that he will resign after suffering a resounding defeat in a referendum over constitutional reform. That leaves the eurozone's third largest economy i ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-06
... spent his prime years in the US, high school in New York City and undergraduate years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then remained and worked in Boston. He converted to Catholicism a ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-05
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's meeting with President-elect Donald Trump in New York in November was an important diplomatic event but it was Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, who was the f ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-05
