... he Middle East and China. "The funds from the Middle East only want a financial return. China can provide both capital and technology. "Britain wants to build eight nuclear power plants. These are lon ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-03
... es of the East and West, he said. However, he said, Hong Kong and HKU seemed to have failed to continue doing so in the past three years and under the "one country, two systems" principle. Yuen said h ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-31
... er Middle East -- particularly its support for terrorist groups in the region -- seems to belie its claim to be seeking regional stability and economic development. While most countries in the world a ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-31
Alibaba Group Ltd. is planning a US$1 billion war chest to battle Amazon.com in cloud-based services. The Chinese e-commerce giant said part of the money will go into data centers in the Middle East, ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-30
... tt of the East”. Measor had been at it long before tycoon Lee Shau-kee got into the act. I got a sense of the Briton's popularity when one of his local fans called to tell me about his death. Measor h ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-28
... travel on East Rail in Tai Po is anybody's guess, but it's been a long time since something welcome like this happened on the MTR, where passengers are normally focused on playing Candy Crush on their ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
... rain. An Eastern District Magistrates’ Court found the 45-year-old woman, surnamed Wu, guilty of criminal damage and ordered her to pay a fine of HK$2,000 (US$258), Apple Daily reported on Friday. Sh ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
Tianjin, a port city in northeastern China, has built a replica of New York's Manhattan that is still mostly deserted. But a city official said that despite its mostly empty buildings, the financial d ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
... spent the East Asian Games budget by HK$120 million (US$15.5 million) in 2009. If these were the two worst things that could be said about a minister over an eight-year term, I would safely conclude h ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-23
Japan is undermining chances for a peaceful dialogue with China over their territorial dispute by releasing pictures of Chinese construction activity in the East China Sea, according to the foreign mi ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-23
... ojects in East Lantau, proposed to the department two years ago that an area covered by Discovery Bay should be extended by half, but the plan was rejected due to height limits set by the government. ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
... n, Middle East and African sales dropped 17 percent. The firm's worst performance was in Brazil, Russia, India and China, where sales fell 35 percent. In contrast, it said revenues from its new areas ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
... ds in the East China Sea. After hawkish members of Abe's party complained the report was too soft on China, the Defense Ministry appended a demand for China to halt construction of platforms in the Ea ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
... me Middle East states, including Israel and Saudi Arabia. Israel warned Monday that it fears the pact would translate into more money for Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Lebanese militia group, and other ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
... g, in the east and the Pearl River Delta, around Guangzhou and Shenzhen, in the south. But the new supercity is different in scope and conception. It will be spread over 212,000 square kilometers and ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
... song 'The East Is Red',” recalls Wong. At school it was mainly about learning Mao’s ideologies and reading mainland Chinese articles about the Cultural Revolution. The most difficult thing that Wong w ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-18
... - or at least thoroughly mundane - when viewed through the prism of normal run-of-the-mill politics, where even a week is a long time. Why nonsensical or mundane? The concept embraces a sprawling gra ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
... you have East and West mixed together. "You have three languages – Cantonese, Mandarin and English. "It is a very attractive city. You cannot get old in Hong Kong.” On Thursday evening, some particip ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
... ds in the East China Sea, have improved since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Chinese President Xi Jinping at an Asia-Pacific summit in Beijing in November. They met for a second mini-summit in ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
... g in northeastern New Territories can be your first choice. With fresher air, less crowded streets and rich greenery, the new town which was developed since the 1980s offers a less frenetic urban envi ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16