... has moved beyond contingency planning. Key units have been placed on "high combat readiness" -- an alert posture to fend off a sudden attack -- including its elite Division 308, which guards the mount ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
... soldiers, beyond 1997. Evans called an urgent meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Zhou Nan (周南), then Beijing's de facto envoy in Hong Kong, to protest Deng's unilateral decision. But Zhou, writing ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
China’s largest bad loans manager is selling troubled assets on Alibaba's Taobao marketplace, widening the reach of the e-commerce giant beyond online retail sales. China Huarong Asset Management Co. ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
... might be, beyond the high level of academic achievement and potential for leadership, what is most striking is the core social values that all four winners share. Gong Chenzhuo, who graduated from Sha ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
... minbi far beyond the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to note, however, that China’s leaders do not seem to be angling for the renminbi to replace the dollar as the dominant international currency ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-14
Much has been said about Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying performing a song by local band Beyond and having the video recording uploaded to his Facebook page. It's not just that some people think the t ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-11
... s that go beyond the limits of Hong Kong autonomy. The question then is, what are these matters that go beyond the limits of Hong Kong autonomy? Is the co-location arrangement for the West Kowloon rai ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-10
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is admitting his Facebook upload of a video showing him performing with a former Beyond frontman is "not ideal". Leung said he has taken steps to clear up any copyright ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-10
... ed former Beyond frontman Wong Ka-keung? Wong, younger brother of the popular duo behind the influential 1980s rock band, was forced to come out and explain after Leung posted images from a party in ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-09
... was still beyond what they could afford, the couple borrowed money from relatives to pay the fishermen and got back the body on Sunday. The couple later called the fishermen's demands extortion. But t ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-09
... 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
