... ouncement beyond that." Mainland Chinese netizens had access to Facebook until it was banned in 2009 by the authorities, who feared it might be used as a platform by dissidents and human rights activi ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-08
... fety net (beyond food stamps), while the government bailed out the banks that had caused the crisis. The basic perquisites of a middle-class life were increasingly beyond the reach of a growing share ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-08
... areer and beyond,” Nike said of the 30-year-old Cleveland Cavaliers player. James, a four-time MVP of the National Basketball Association, wasn’t immediately available to comment on the lifetime endor ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-08
About 65 percent of Hong Kong's 510 primary schools keep students on campus longer than the seven-hour limit recommended by the Education Bureau. Of the 333 schools that go beyond the threshold, at le ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
... , to move beyond a scandal over rigged car-emissions tests. Chief executive Matthias Mueller, who ran Porsche until late September, has vowed to accelerate and widen development of electric cars amid ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
... anything beyond that. Anyone can report or flag content for review and possible removal. But the truth is far more subtle and complicated. According to former employees, Facebook, Google and Twitter ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
... emissions beyond 2020, made in the run-up to the Paris summit, are too weak to limit the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times. That is widely vi ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
... r strikes beyond Iraq. Cameron said the more than four-year Syrian civil war could not be resolved by military action alone, but that the strikes would "degrade" Islamic State militants - which he sai ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
... decision beyond sending the firm his son’s curriculum vitae, Bloomberg News reported. "My duties in the HKMA did not involve supervisory functions over or direct business dealings with JPMorgan," Pan ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
The International Monetary Fund said currencies beyond the dollar, euro, pound and yen may meet the same conditions as the Chinese yuan did to qualify for inclusion in the lender’s basket of reserve c ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-02
... to expand beyond their core businesses both inside and out of China. Those investments have put the pair in awkward situations in two of China's largest Internet M&A deals this year, one involving ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
... that was beyond the capability of the flight crew to recover," the committee said. The Airbus A320 aircraft crashed less than halfway into a two-hour flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Si ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
... 20 times beyond the WHO safe limit. "As the two largest economies in the world and the two largest carbon-emitters, we have both determined that it is our responsibility to take action," Obama said. ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
... d on days beyond the official close, Fabius said relying on "a last-night miracle" could risk failure, and that progress must be made every day. "The process cannot be chaotic. We owe it to ourselves ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-30
... mmitments beyond the current 2020 target. Mainland China’s pledge to reduce its carbon intensity by 60-65 percent by 2030 provides new impetus. Like London, Hong Kong faces risks as an international f ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-30
Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League of Democracy (NLD) is Burma’s current flavor, and the ballots cast by the Burmese voters—at least those eligible to participate in the electoral process—has put many ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-28
Partly prompted by the uncertainties in the Chinese stock market, a substantial proportion of Chinese investors has turned to property investment abroad, with London being one of the most sought-after ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-28
... d to look beyond material comforts and search for higher values such as equality, social justice, freedom, human dignity, the right to preserve one’s way of life and the conservation of cultural herit ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-27
... aring far beyond their real value. The gap between asset prices and the reality is widening. Where should the smart money go? In the past years, funds have been rushing into financial assets like equi ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-26
