... 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
... politics. Beyond the political symbolism -- officials see the project as a sign of unity between Hong Kong and the mainland -- the implications of the co-location arrangement are very real. It allows ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-25
... continue beyond November 2016.” Obama himself, of course, could make no promises for his successor, saying only that it depends on who wins the next election. But Lee pointed out, rightly, that Ameri ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-24
... e capital beyond already high levels. A new evaluation of the situation would be made on Monday afternoon, he said, adding that authorities will do everything to return the city to normal as quickly a ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-23
... have been beyond people's weirdest imagination if suggested just a few years ago. But in the context of today’s Hong Kong, such an implementation of “apartheid” has become so apposite that even Beijin ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-20
... e working beyond our human limitations. The survey shows that 82 percent of the respondents did take sick leave in the past year but we can assume they plunged right back in, not having fully recovere ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
... ugh it is beyond doubt that government policies that favor grammar schools are one of the primary reasons why our vocational education in continually on the decline, it is important to note that the u ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
... goes well beyond that," he said. Detailing some cases involving trafficking and slavery, Studzinski said the treatment of some victims was horrific. He told of one woman enslaved as a prostitute who ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
