... sday, New York Fed president William Dudley called for a change in exit strategy, saying the central bank should keep its balance sheet steady until after it has first raised interest rates, a move ex ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-22
Jill Abramson has left the New York Times but her now famous "T" tattoo is staying put. "Not a chance," she told a group of students when asked whether she plans to remove the iconic logo etched on he ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-21
... d the New York state bank regulator said it had decided not to revoke the bank's license in the state, Reuters noted. Prosecutors said the bank helped clients deceive US tax authorities by concealing ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
Jumei International Holding, operator of cosmetics site Jumei.com, has amassed a market cap of over HK$26 billion (US$4.21 billion) since listing on the New York Stock Exchange Friday, putting it 60 p ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
If you're slaving over office work and not getting enough time for your own stuff, Google might have something for you. The world's largest search engine has snapped up Divide, a New York start-up tha ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
He said, she said -- so went the biggest story out of the New York Times last week. Jill Abramson said she had been a victim of gender bias while publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. insisted the paper's f ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-19
... g the New York Times. The Times said a review of internal documents, e-mails and interviews showed that high-ranking officials "particularly in GM's legal department, led by the general counsel Michae ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-19
... s the New York Times and Washington Post described the attackers as "radicals" but not terrorists, it said. Such practice showed that western media have double standards when reporting about terrorist ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-16
... . The New York Times, for example, already has a dedicated Google Glass app to beam news onto the Glass screen. One of the bugs though is privacy -- others may not know wearers are taking a photo if a ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-16
US President Barack Obama was among the guests in New York Thursday for the dedication of the National September 11 Memorial Museum on the site of what was the World Trade Center. The dedication, att ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-16
New York Times sacked its first-ever female executive editor Jill Abramson on Wednesday in a development that highlights the income disparity between male and female executives in the US city -- and e ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-16
A clubhouse sandwich in Hong Kong’s major hotels costs more than the same order in a similar establishment in New York, according to an index compiled by Hotels.com. The index, which compares sandwich ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-14
... The New York Times reported Sunday that National University of Singapore (NUS) archaeology professor John Miksic is advising the government on the new school text "Singapore: The Making of a Nation- ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-13
... d the New York Times. China claims almost the entire South China Sea, an area covering 2 million square kilometers that is estimated to possess vast oil and gas reserves as large as 200 billion barrel ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-13
... h 48, New York (43), San Francisco (42) and Los Angeles (38). Britain also leads the world in the number of billionaires per capita, with one in every 607 people. That compares with one in a million A ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12
... like New York and London -- it’s not exclusive for Hong Kong. “There is huge inflation in the housing market, lack of affordability, people not able to enter the housing market easily … that’s London ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12
Chinese police will join their French counterparts in patrolling key tourist sites in Paris this summer to protect Chinese tourists, the New York Times reported. However, French authorities have yet t ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-09
... ading New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority for two years. A dozen members of the Labour Party and the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) staged protests outside the v ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-08
A Chinese phone bidder paid US$24 million, or US$27 million with Christie's fees, for Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" at the auction house's Impressionist and modern art sale in New York Tuesday, the Wa ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-07
... ank’s New York branch as a specialist in US government bonds. In 1983, he decided to conceal his US$70,000 loss in trading Federal Reserve Notes to protect his reputation and job. He continued trading ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-29
