Japan ramped up its criticism of China's land reclamation and offshore platforms in disputed seas Tuesday in a hastily revised annual defence report. The 500-page white paper, approved by Prime Minist ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
A top US Navy admiral said he joined a surveillance flight over the disputed South China Sea on Saturday but gave no specific details. Admiral Scott Swift, commander of the US Pacific Fleet, confirmed ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
... er, Great Sea (大江大海), a book she wrote that tells individual accounts of 1949. It has sold 100,000 copies in Hong Kong and 300,000 in Taiwan – but is banned on the mainland. “The HK Book Fair is the b ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
... having a sea of clouds is high. However, you have to see for yourself whether the scene has time-lapse potential, he says. Hong Kong's spectacular cloud formations never fail but they could be rare. ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-18
... gned some sea-view apartments into 4-bed ensuite rooms and is offering each bed for HK$4,000 per month. Forty-eight traditional one-bedroom units, each measuring 660 square feet, have been converted i ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
... s the 10 ASEAN economies – with which China already has an intense trade and investment relationship. It embraces eight European Union economies where deep trade and investment links have already been ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
... ast China Sea and the South China Sea. At the same time, Abe – whose support rating in Japan has been dropping – would also be in a position to tell his domestic critics that he is successfully mendin ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
... uth China Sea and elsewhere that antagonize China's neighbors. With, for example, China bullying the Philippines over possession of disputed islands in the South China Sea, the Confucius Institute tha ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-13
... uth China Sea and the Western Pacific Ocean. But these are not stopping people from spreading the most outrageous conspiracy theories. The present warning regime has been in existence since 1973 whe ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
China’s claims to disputed territory in the South China Sea are making life complicated for ethnic Chinese businessmen in countries like the Philippines that have competing claims, Bloomberg reported. ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
... f the the SeaSparrow missile and sharing the cost. The missile, an advanced ship-borne weapon designed to destroy anti-ship sea-skimming missiles and attack aircraft, is made by US weapons firms Rayth ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
... uth China Sea where Manila has long explored for oil and gas. One source, a sailor, said he was on a fishing boat being used by the navy that discovered the rubber buoys and the floating steel marker ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
China has almost finished building a 3,000-meter-long airstrip on one of its artificial islands in the South China Sea's disputed Spratly archipelago, Reuters reported, citing new satellite photograph ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
... w-defunct search and rescue mission Mare Nostrum, a bigger disaster in April killed up to 800 migrants and stunned the European Union into expanding joint rescue operations. Bensalem's sentence was re ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
... floating sea ice as platforms for hunting ringed seals, for mating and to travel vast distances quickly and without expending crucial energy reserves on long-distance swimming, according to the US Fi ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
... ls to overseas candidates, especially in filling junior positions. "Many candidates from Hong Kong believe they deserve better salary than locals. And yet, in the eyes of employers, salary is based on ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-27
Japan's military will consider joining US forces in regular patrols in the South China Sea, as concerns grow about Beijing's island-building activities in disputed waters, a top Japanese uniformed off ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-26
China will add its assets and activities in space, the deep sea and polar regions to its pending national security law, Reuters reported, citing state media. President Xi Jinping, who heads a newly es ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-25
... uth China Sea. "Responsible countries adhere to international law and work together to keep international sea-lanes open for unimpaired commerce, Biden said, according to the Wall Street Journal. Chin ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-24
... land and sea routes. Strategically, Beijing sees the AIIB (and the NDB) as a multilateral tool to support its policy banks in financing overseas investment and encouraging Chinese companies to "go ou ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-22
