A 57-year-old woman was prevented from killing herself after her alert grandson called for help. The incident took place inside a flat at Shek Kip Mei Estate in Sham Shui Po at around 9 a.m. on Sunday ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-05
Investors are advised to diversify their portfolios as the change of administration and inflationary pressures in the United States will add to uncertainties in the markets, according to S&P Dow J ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-05
In China, most of the toll road projects have a maximum concession of only 30 years. To sustain profitability and pave the way for future growth, toll road companies need to plough back part of their ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-28
A woman who jumped into the sea from a New World First ferry in a suicide attempt was saved by the crew. The 46-year-old woman, surnamed Chiu, boarded the ferry at around 9 a.m. Sunday morning in Cent ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-21
A 48-year-old domestic helper hanged herself in an Aberdeen flat where she lived with her employer. The victim was found hanging from a bunk bed in her room with a bed sheet tied around her neck, Appl ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-21
Mexican jazz singer Magos Herrera is performing live in Hong Kong on Nov. 20 in support of the HeForShe campaign, a United Nations initiative to promote gender equality around the world. “Different co ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-15
India's Gujarat state, which is home to some of India's biggest industrial enterprises, aims to speed up its growth by attracting more foreign investment and providing fresh momentum to the economy. ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-15
By 2050, 66 percent of the world’s population will live in cities. What concrete solutions can be implemented to meet urban climate challenges? Cities are at the center of climate change. They already ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
ASB Biodiesel (Hong Kong) Ltd., the largest used oil refiner in Hong Kong, is seeking to expand its production to the Pearl River Delta region in southern China in the coming years. "China has a lot o ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
Hong Kong, with a population of 7.1 million in 1,104 square kilometers of land, is seeking to reduce solid waste, particularly food and glass waste, through various measures. In 2014, the city dispose ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
In 2014, an unprecedented water crisis caused historically low water levels in the largest reservoir of the Cantareira system, which supplies water to São Paulo. A combination of climatic factors, an ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
The shores of tourist resort Lake Garda may seem like an unlikely place to make nylon. But it’s here that an Italian company, Aquafil, discovered a way to take discarded carpeting, clothing and fishi ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
In the LanzaTech laboratory, at the company’s headquarters outside Chicago, a milky liquid churns inside a steel and plastic cylinder. It contains millions of bacteria that can turn industrial waste g ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
China is now the world’s largest producer of motor vehicles, and this has made exhaust gas emissions one of the country’s top sources of air pollution. Faced with worsening climate and environmental c ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
As the biggest construction power in the world today, China is actively campaigning for a low-carbon footprint in its building projects, in keeping with domestic environmental protection laws that emp ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
As you head north out of Paris along the A1 freeway, towards the international airport of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, you are entering a zone that holds a dubious distinction. With a plethora of corpora ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
Paris already has a funny name for the beneficiaries of its new initiative: les Parisculteurs, but there’s no harvest yet. The City Council has promised Parisians some 30 hectares to cultivate by 2020 ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
In Lagos, Nigeria, the sights and smells of uncollected garbage are shocking. Piles of trash lay on streets, outside homes, around places of work and in areas where children play. Waste fills drainage ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
In Morocco, plastic bags are a national burden. Moroccan households consume about 25 billion of these temporary bags every year. After they have been used, they end up littered across the landscape, ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
Britain's Home Office declines to comment on challenges against newly elected Legislative Council president Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen over his application to renounce his British citizenship. "We do not ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-17
