... gas, Vice Governor Mark Leviste said rain had turned ash to mud and trucks were needed to evacuate more people from remote communities. “There is no power. Even water was cut, so we are in need of pot ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-13
... c for the government. If prices were to get out of hand, we would likely see the government tackling it through regulations. However, this time around we are guessing that the granularity of the rules ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-13
... . “Not a good time to go there," the cabbie replied. "The road is likely blocked." “Then drop us nearby,” I said, wondering how bad the traffic was. After a little more hesitation, the driver asked, ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-13
... said the government should respond to the five demands of the public as soon as possible, including allowing Hong Kong people to choose their chief executive as well as all the members of the Legisla ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-13
... d prayers go to all the mourning families.” Experts said mounting international scrutiny would have made it all but impossible to hide signs of a missile strike in any investigation and Iran may have ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-11
... asure now goes to the Senate, which is controlled by Trump’s Republican Party, and faces an uphill battle. A White House spokesman called the House-passed war powers measure “ridiculous” and political ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-10
On Saturday, the people of Taiwan will go to the polls to elect their new president as well as lawmakers. The event will be watched very closely as the outcome will determine the island's social polit ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-10
... xports of goods hit by retaliatory tariffs have fallen sharply, according to the report. The lion’s share of the higher tariff costs, some US$37.3 billion, stemmed from duties on imports from China, W ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-10
... while the government, through the official blog of Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, has been lambasting the pan-democrats for their filibusters. Intriguingly though, while both the government ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-09
... the anti-government protests had received training locally and even overseas. The propaganda and mobilization capabilities witnessed during the protest movement give rise to the suspicion that the pr ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-09
... 阿哥．嘉西亞（Diego Garcia）基地——此地離伊朗約五千公里，在伊朗長程導彈射程以外，航程八千八百公里 ...全文
... d by anti-government protests over the past seven months. According to sources, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is scheduled to meet with Luo at her official residence on Thursday or Friday ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-08
You must have noticed it yourself as you take the MTR and go to work or school: there are more commuters and pedestrians wearing masks these days – and they are not necessarily demonstrating for "five ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-08
... decades ago, the price of crude (New York WTI crude one-month futures) jumped from just US$15 to over US$40. But towards the end of the war, the oil price slipped to below US$20 and stayed at that le ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-08
... hran will go for an all-out war. As both the United States and Iran are now rattling their sabers at each other, all eyes are on the Strait of Hormuz, the strategically critical passage through which ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
... eng Yuet-ngor and any of the politically accountable officials in her cabinet to attend the event. Back in 2018, when Lam was still in a “honeymoon period” with the pan-dems, she eagerly attended the ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
... likely to go on, but the dispute has certainly cooled. While trade dominated the headlines in 2019, it meant that investors overlooked a series of profound changes to the running of China's economy th ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
