... 80 in the eight years through 2023 if construction begins next year. The airport authority will also fund the construction with its 10-year surplus and by issuing debt. Local carriers Cathay Pacific A ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-18
... lished by eight individual allied nations at 51 locations across the Asia-Pacific region tried around 5,700 B Class and C Class suspects between 1945 and 1951 (“The Minor Trials”). Despite the large v ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-18
... n six and eight weeks. The council made several suggestions for consumers to ensure a smoother journey. First, pay attention to any items preselected online and the airline's terms and conditions of c ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
... eanwhile, eight in 10 respondents agreed that any political pursuit should be expressed in a peaceful manner. Only 6 percent disagreed. Lawmaker Paul Tse Wai-chun said the results suggested the reform ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-16
... At least eight deaths have been confirmed with 30 people injured. The number of casualties is expected to rise as rescuers reach the archipelago's outlying islands. Aid workers were particularly worr ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-16
... In 2013, eight officials at the provincial or ministerial level were investigated for suspected embezzlement and bribery, Cao said in a report to the National People's Congress. Thirty officials at t ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-13
... or almost eight years, not rare in Hong Kong but nevertheless an unusual case. Some of his long-serving predecessors, including Arthur Clarke (in office from 1952 to 1961), John Cowperthwaite (1961-19 ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-12
... seven to eight hours of sleep every day. ESF school development adviser Chris Durbin urged parents to help their children learn about the world even from trivial things to cultivate their interest in ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-12
... twear for eight years, was quoted as saying. "For years, they haven’t been properly paying into our social-insurance and housing-benefit funds, and we want them to give us what is rightfully ours." A ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-11
... while an eight-member investment committee will choose the projects. Authorities hope to get the first projects going by the end of the year, the report said. A list submitted in December includes pl ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-11
... t gain in eight months. The increase is attributed to larger amounts of cross-border renminbi payments and foreign exchange turnover. The renminbi is now the world’s No.5 most used payment currency, t ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-10
... ated into eight languages, with 17 million copies reportedly sold or given away. Before concluding his address, the premier urged everyone to “rally closely around the party Central Committee with Com ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-10
... rs in the eight days since it launched, according to founder Ben Rubin. Meanwhile, Periscope has yet to be rolled out to the wider public. It started beta-testing the app among select users roughly f ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-10
If men can do it, so can she. That must be the guiding philosophy of Janet Wong Ching, who at 25 became Hong Kong's first female crane controller. Bespectacled and petite at 158 cm in height, Wong won ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
... d to take eight years for completion. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, who took office in January, had during his election campaign pledged to probe Chinese-funded megaproject deals inked by ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-06
... more than eight years, and its discovery will not only help fill in the narrative of WWII's Pacific theater, but bring closure to the families of those lost," a statement on Allen's website said. The ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-05
Eight of the 10 cities globally that are deemed to be most exposed to natural hazards are in the Philippines, according to a new study published Wednesday. The study by risk analysis firm Verisk Maple ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-05
... es of its eight remaining units at Kowloon Station by up to 21 percent. Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd. (00012.HK), meanwhile, increased the prices of its three remaining units at a development in ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-05
... hases and eight percent of all property transactions. They are one of the main reasons why property prices have risen over 80 percent over the last 10 years. Non-citizens can only buy property in the ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-04
... d into an eight-hour-long riot, during which protestors showed no signs of fear even when confronting hundreds of police officers and the notoriously fierce indigenous people and gangsters of Yuen Lon ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-04
