Regional officials are focused on terrorism as global defense chiefs debate what “America First” and China’s rise mean for Asia’s future, Bloomberg reports. Southeast Asian defense officials who atten ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-05
... country's south, Reuters reports, citing Ernesto Abella, a spokesman for President Rodrigo Duterte. "All indications point to a criminal act by an apparently emotionally disturbed individual," Abella ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-02
... ed in the south. Police said the man's motive was likely robbery and that the incident was not terror-related, Reuters reports. National police chief Ronald dela Rosa told DZMM radio the lone gunman h ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-02
... 26th and South Korea 29th. (The full table can be viewed here) Financial Secretary Paul Chan said the SAR government was delighted to see Hong Kong, after returning to the top position in 2016, was a ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-01
... of Congo, South Sudan and Ethiopia to Mombasa so the Indian Ocean port can act as a gateway to East Africa for trade with China and other nations, the news agency said. The railway was finished well a ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-01
... nce 2008. South Korea's industrial output declined unexpectedly, however, adding an element of uncertainty for the central bank, which plans to upgrade its 2017 growth outlook from the current 2.6 per ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
... ters just south of Alaska. It then fired a missile to intercept it from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Experts compare the job to hitting a bullet with another bullet and note the complexity ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
... Island in South Korea, was christened "OOCL Hong Kong" at a ceremony on May 12. To put the vessel's gigantic size in perspective, it's almost as tall as the 88-storey Two IFC building in Hong Kong’s C ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-29
... contrast, South Korea's credit rating was increased one level by Standard & Poor’s from AA- to AA last August. Embarrassingly, the country soon witnessed a slew of negative developments. Within a ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-29
North Korea fired what appeared to be a short-range ballistic missile on Monday that landed in the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military said, the latest in a series of missile tests defying ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-29
... varied as South Africa, Brazil and, yes, even conservative old Britain, is that once the law has been put in place it has rapidly gained widespread acceptance and this allegedly controversial issue qu ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-26
A US Navy warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island built up by China in the South China Sea, the first such challenge to Beijing in the strategic waterway since US President Don ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-25
... it bested South Korean Go professional Lee Sedol in a similar exhibition match last year. The victory is a feather in the cap for Google parent Alphabet's ambitions in the artificial intelligence aren ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-25
Police are looking for six men reportedly of South Asian origin who are suspected of robbing a former football player of gold bars and a large amount of cash. The incident took place at about 9 p.m. W ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-25
... en men of South Asian ethnicity who attempted to reach the shore after arriving in Hong Kong waters by a boat. His companions – five Bangladeshis, three Pakistanis and one Afghanistan, aged 20 to 40 – ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-25
... ed to the south runway. Flights may be delayed, some for up to three hours, the Airport Authority has warned. Passengers have been advised to check with their respective airlines for flight status bef ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-24
South Korea's military fired warning shots at a suspected drone from North Korea on Tuesday amid tensions over Pyongyang's latest missile test which drew international condemnation and a warning from ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-24
... es in the South China Sea in 2007. By contrast, Russia, Canada, the United States, Belgium, Japan, South Korea and India have all tried to tap into the new energy source with little success. So why is ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-23
China has mined "flammable ice" for the first time from the seafloor of the South China Sea. Vast deposits of the ice-like substance called methane hydrates exist underneath all oceans around the worl ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-23
... ef of the South China Morning Post and now its editorial adviser, is warning of “dangers and risks which are not usually discussed and debated publicly” but “could impede China’s efforts to assert its ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-22
