... d the New York Times. Ma risked antagonizing Beijing -- even as he sought further free-trade agreements with the mainland -- by expressing support for the Hong Kong protests in a televised speech on O ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-03
Hong Kong regulators must have felt a tinge of regret as they watched Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s successful listing on the New York Stock Exchange last month. They lost the chance to host what prove ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-31
A video that shows a woman being pestered by men on the streets of New York has gone viral, sparking renewed debate about harassment endured by women and minority groups. The two-minute video shows ac ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-31
... ed in New York City last week with the virus. "There is rising anxiety and confusion among MSF staff members in the field over what they may face when they return home upon completion of their assignm ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-31
Russian and Ukrainian officials reached an agreement late Thursday to resume Russian deliveries of natural gas to prevent shortages over the winter months, the New York Times reported. The agreement, ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-31
A planned Chinese exchange-traded fund (ETF) to be listed in New York has won approval from Beijing, giving investors in the United States a new way to tap the mainland's debt market. China fund manag ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-30
... ry of New York offerings at the end of last year and whose shares have mostly doubled since then. One notable exception to the trend is mobile games, as two out of three major players are now squarely ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-28
... ates. New York and New Jersey are among a handful of states to impose mandatory quarantines on returning doctors and nurses amid fears of the virus spreading outside of West Africa, where it has kille ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-28
... rs of New York, New Jersey, and others states know that we have concerns with the unintended consequences of policies not grounded in science may have on efforts to combat Ebola at its source in West ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-27
A New York doctor who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in the West African country of Guinea has tested positive for the deadly virus, BBC News reported on Friday. Dr. Craig Spencer, who ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-24
One of the few remaining examples of Apple Inc's first pre-assembled computer, Apple-1, sold for US$905,000 at an auction in New York on Wednesday, far outstripping expectations. The relic, which spar ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-24
... f the New York Stock Exchange and London’s Liffe futures market, in 2012. The European Union has agreed to increase competition among derivatives exchanges, weakening the control of the largest operat ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-23
Apart from China's resistance, the reason why political reform in Hong Kong faces a roadblock is the unwillingness of the city's elite to see a change in the status quo, the New York Times noted. Talk ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-23
... h the New York Times and two other foreign media outlets that an open election being sought by pro-democracy protesters would require a nomination process that would include all Hong Kong people. Sinc ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-22
... d The New York Times decided to publish the Pentagon Papers, leaked classified documents that showed that the war in Vietnam was not going as political leaders and the military brass portrayed it. Bra ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-22
... rough New York's John F. Kennedy, New Jersey's Newark, Washington Dulles, Atlanta, and Chicago's O'Hare international airports, the report said citing health and homeland security officials. The preca ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-22
... rn in New York in 1915 and first came to China in 1947, having been selected by the US army to learn Chinese during World War II. He married a Chinese actress and remained in China after the Communist ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-21
... d the New York Times. The current plan would use the 1,200-member election committee that chose Leung in 2012 as a template. Talks are due to take place between the student group leading the three-wee ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-21
... ional New York Times, suggest that Beijing has been pulling strings with regard to the Hong Kong government’s handling of the protests and that chief executive Leung Chun-ying himself reports to the c ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-21
... ed to New York City. "When I first arrived here in 1963, all the names on clothes were the name of [the store]," he told Gotham magazine last year. "You made your clothes, you sold them to the store, ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-21
