... bosses in Western indicate that they would like to see a bit of shouting and when an institutional convention of separation of powers becomes inconvenient, she simply ignores it. There are two other l ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-24
... ntral and Western District were surrounded by garbage, Apple Daily noted. The trail, established in 1996 by the Central & Western District Council and stretching over a distance of 3.3 kilometers, ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-22
Western Digital Corp. has agreed to buy SanDisk Corp. for about US$19 billion in cash and stock in a deal that moves the disk drive maker into a faster-growing business segment. SanDisk is a major sup ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-22
... ntral and Western District, for example, the number of votes secured by democrats was 18,195, compared with 23,766 votes for the pro-Beijing camp. But in the Legislative Council election in 2012, the ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-20
... ations of western democracy, given that the "universal values" they express have been held in utter contempt by Beijing since Xi took office. A more likely interpretation is that Xi was merely boastin ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-20
... 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
