... ventional Western thinking. Don’t let the renminbi depreciate, it wrote, for four reasons: depreciation might provoke a currency war in Asia; China’s companies are awash in dollar-denominated debt; de ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-20
Hard disk drive maker Western Digital Corp. has emerged as the strongest suitor of SanDisk Corp. in a potential acquisiton deal for the US$14.6 billion memory chip maker. Western Digital and SanDisk a ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-20
... tside the Western Police Station in Des Voeux Road West when the man stabbed two unsuspecting passers-by. His victims -- a man and a woman -- sustained wounds in the right forearm, and in the shoulder ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-19
... 125), the Western Xia (1038-1227), the Jin (1115-1234) and the Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties. The Qing dynasty, founded by the Manchu people, ruled the Han Chinese for nearly three centuries, from 1644 t ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-19
Chinese President Xi Jinping praised Britain for its "visionary" choice to strengthen commercial ties with China, and urged other Western powers to follow suit. "The UK has stated that it will be the ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-19
... cess that Western officials say is likely to take at least two months. Sunday was "adoption day" for the agreement clinched in Vienna by Iran, the US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China and en ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-19
... economy. Western nations have overcome some risks after the financial crisis, while emerging markets are still struggling with more volatile currencies. China is also facing unprecedented challenges, ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-17
... le off to Western for orders. And they can also take comfort from the fact that when it comes to the battle of fundamental ideas, they are allied with the majority of Hongkongers, who have not given u ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-17
... h country western-style signage, sizzling food stalls handing out free shots of rum with impressive queues for burgers and fries, and tents billowing in wind that’s coming off Victoria Harbour over th ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-17
... areas of western Syria that are crucial to Assad's survival and held by rebel groups other than Islamic State. Syrian state television, quoting a military source, said the army had begun a military o ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-16
Russia may be bracing for its longest recession in decades following the oil price slide and Western sanctions, but there is at least one business segment that is booming in the country -- budget fixe ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-15
... ly as the Western Wall -- on Wednesday along with his wife Regina. Following the visit, Israel's Consulate General in Hong Kong released a picture that showed Leung standing with his head bowed in fro ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-15
... ere is no western country that is so welcoming. When British finance minister George Osborne went to China last month, he made the astonishing decision to visit Xinjiang, where the government is facin ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-15
... ive maker Western Digital (WDC.US) at the end of last month for US$3.8 billion. But while Unigroup seems to have access to more cash than Lenovo, a bid for EMC would still be quite pricey, costing thr ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-14
One of the most difficult challenges facing Western governments today is to enable and channel the transformative – and, for individuals and companies, self-empowering – forces of technological innova ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-14
... perts and Western governments believe rebels shot down the aircraft, possibly mistaking it for a Ukrainian military plane. Moscow has offered alternative theories, including that it might have been sh ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-13
... liken to western "quantitative easing", the People’s Bank of China will allow more commercial lenders to use loans as collateral to borrow cheap funds from the PBoC. The banks are then supposed to us ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-13
A four-year-old boy was killed when he was trapped in an escalator in western China’s Chongqing city, adding to a string of related tragedies in recent months. The boy was playing near the top of the ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-09
... round and western states have accused it of targeting US-backed rebels to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-09
... ists, but Western officials say most strikes appear aimed at other opponents of Assad to bolster his position. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-08
