... , Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev agreed with him when he railed against the United States. "I met with Medvedev, I am revealing it to you now. I told him this is the situation, they are giving ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-03
... only one prime purpose: to drill the curriculum outlined by the government and make the children score high marks in exams. With education becoming commoditized, parents are behaving like consumers w ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
... former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, show that annual global development assistance for primary and secondary education needs to rise from around US$4 billion to around US$40 billion. Only this ten ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
... followed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's warning that those India held responsible "would not go unpunished" for a Sept. 18 attack on an army base in Uri, near the Line of Control, that killed 18 sold ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
... ed on the prime rate set by each bank. But as interest rate kept falling in recent years, most property buyers chose to price their mortgages based on the Hong Kong Inter Bank Offered Rate (HIBOR) to ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-29
... gs, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte called on Russia "to lend all possible cooperation" to the inquiry, which will now shift its focus to identifying individual suspects. Prosecutors said that while t ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-29
Italy will hold a referendum on constitutional reform on Dec. 4 involving a proposal to slim down the country’s legislature and speed up lawmaking. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s Democratic Party first ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-28
... a Labour prime minister. He shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with the late former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for reaching an interim peace deal in 1993 wh ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-28
Tensions between India and Pakistan rise as India's leader cancels a visit to a regional summit and Islamabad warns it would treat it as "an act of war" if India revoked a water treaty. Prime Minister ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-28
... Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is also expecting him in Moscow, Duterte added. China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than US$5 trillion of trade moves annually. Brunei ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-27
... ion of UK Prime Minister Theresa May) met recently in Bratislava, Slovakia, in an attempt to demonstrate solidarity, and to kick-start the post-Brexit reform process. The attendees made some progress ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-26
... 017, is a prime example. The government has been in touch with Mapletree on the feasibility and details for connecting the Kwun Tong waterfront promenade with Ngau Tau Kok MTR by a sheltered pathway. ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-23
... x British prime ministers, ousted its US rival after its research funding rose 10 percent and overall funding rose to 1.4 billion pounds (US$1.83 billion), while the impact of its research increased, ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-23
... s Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, elected last year, is trying to improve ties and increase trade with the world's second-largest economy after a decade of rocky relations under his Conservativ ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-23
... r Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, agreed last month to sell the team to a group of little-known Chinese investors for 740 million euros (US$825 million), including debt. To prove its financi ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-22
... Beijing, Prime Minister John Key said an extradition treaty was "possible", as long as people did not face torture or the death penalty. The high court also ruled on Wednesday that Kim, who has spent ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-22
... . British Prime Minister Theresa May has been accused of backing down on security concerns about Chinese investment in the country after she approved the partly Chinese-funded 18 billion pound (US$23. ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-20
