... 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
... aximum of eight entries per visa has also drawn objection from Shenzhen officials, as they believe such move won't be in the city's interests. In recent years, discontent has been growing among Hong K ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-04
... asted for eight years, beginning right after the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown and ending when Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1997. Cheung Ka-hei, director of Goldmax Immigration Consulting Ltd., sa ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea on Monday as the United States and South Korea kicked off eight weeks of joint military drills. The nuclear-armed North Korean People's Army (KP ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
... ing after eight years at the helm and 13 years of service at the London-based lender that is undergoing a management overhaul. Chairman John Peace and Asia chief executive Jaspal Bindra are also stepp ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-27
... ating for eight hours in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the jury said Apple not only used the Smartflash patents without permission, but did so willfully, Reuters reported. A ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-25
... ing after eight years in the civil service. Tsui's departure follows those of Henry Ho from the development bureau, Zandra Mok from the labor and welfare department and Carmen Cheung from the chief se ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
Eight more people died of flu in Hong Kong Monday, bringing the death toll from the epidemic to 255 since the beginning of the year, Metro Hong Kong reported. A total of 5,765 patients required emerge ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
... seven to eight years of requirements. Peach is also considering opening more routes connecting destinations in Asia to its base in Japan. Despite increasing competition among budget airlines in the r ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
