... e Arabian Sea with China's far-western Xinjiang region. It would shorten the route for China's energy imports, bypassing the Straits of Malacca between Malaysia and Indonesia, a bottleneck at risk of ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-17
China has made rapid progress in building an airstrip suitable for military use in disputed South China Sea waters. Work is progressing on a runway on reclaimed part of Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-17
China could use islands it is building in the South China Sea to enforce an exclusion zone over the disputed territory. Adm. Samuel Locklear, the United States military commander for Asia, told a cong ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-16
... ns in the Sea of Japan and to Alaska and the US West Coast. Locklear told a Washington congressional hearing Russian warships were deployed in the Asia-Pacific and the expected fielding of Moscow's ne ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-16
In the middle of the night on Sunday, 72-year-old animal lover Ng Chi-fai saw a gang of angry stray dogs chasing a kitten at Cheung Chau Pier. The kitten was so frightened that it jumped into the sea ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
Beijing must be feeling the pressure from the United States to stop its campaign of turning tiny reefs that it controls in the South China Sea into artificial islands capable of accommodating military ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-14
A US destroyer in the Red Sea boarded a freighter the Americans suspected of delivering Iranian weapons to Houthi rebels in Yemen. The search of the Panamanian-flagged Saisaban by USS Sterett earlier ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-13
... uth China Sea, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing FireEye Inc., a United States cybersecurity company. Beijing’s claims in the contested South China Sea overlap with those of Malaysia, Vi ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-13
... n and overseas. Huizhou, Dongguan and Zhuhai do not impose such restrictions. Shenzhen has only 100,000 spaces left and will run out within 10 years, Du Peng, head of the city’s Civil Affairs Bureau, ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-09
... e Arabian Sea port of Mukalla, in a sign that Yemen's weakened army is failing to secure broad swathes of the country. The Saudi-led campaign has failed stop the Houthis and allied soldiers loyal to f ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-08
The Philippines is bracing for the first major typhoon of the 2015 summer season, as Supertyphoon Maysak blows in from the central Pacific Ocean. Maysak is forecast to hit the West coast of Luzon Isla ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-02
... power and sea water power generation related technologies. It is possible that geothermal power generation could be launched this year, he said. As for harnessing the power of sea water, it may take ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-01
... ashes at sea or in the Gardens of Remembrance, so that the bereaved family members can carry out the wishes. The above suggestion falls within the jurisdictions of both the Hospital Authority and the ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-31
... he Baltic Sea. A transportation network would link East Asia, West Asia and South Asia. The following month, while addressing the Indonesian parliament, the Chinese leader for the first time spoke of ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-31
... acing the sea in Hong Kong's Tai Po district. It is scheduled to open to the public on April 15, six years after construction began with funds from the Li Ka-shing Foundation. Admission is free. The m ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-30
... istrict’s seaside scenery, officials have decided on ocean-themed design for the new trains, with blue and yellow being the primary colors and light effects resembling sea waves. Also, passengers will ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-27
... from the sea north of the current airport island. Such a large reclamation project, together with the additional spending on environmental conservation, is the reason why the new runway will be among ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-27
... uth China Sea. The official said China has not attempted to assert maritime claims around those newly created islands and would not be able to do so. "Under international law an island is a naturally ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-26
... the local sea level continues to rise. He also said the temperature will remain high, with heat waves and hot spells likely to become more frequent due to global warming and the El Niño effect, Apple ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-24
... ast China Sea have led to stagnant China sales for Japanese carmakers in the past two years. The opinions are of Steve Man, senior auto sector analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. -- Contact us at engli ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
