... nd in the Western terms of commitment to freedom, human rights and democracy, and the quality of political institutions. It also scored rock bottom on the “digital” metric, defined as a country’s digi ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-21
... y popular Western concept of collaborative economy. Hoping to promote this sustainable lifestyle, he collaborated with a bunch of friends to create an app that allows people to borrow and lend things ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
... ent. What Western leader would ever begin a briefing asking us to recall the work of a century? You would be lucky to get any leader to focus on any longer period than five years – often much less. I ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
... ng across western Asia. Copyright: Project Syndicate -- Contact us at [email protected] RA ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
... Asia and Western Europe, Microsoft may struggle to gain market share there. Consoles' lackluster profit margin history has shifted attention to content and subscription services. The PS3 likely cost ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
... orking in western Kowloon. The only drawback is noise of planes descending to the airport. During a site visit, this reporter found that a plane was passing by almost every three to five minutes. Howe ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
... ions with Western nations, which suspect that Iran has used its civil nuclear program as a cover to develop a nuclear weapons capability. Iran denies this. Among the biggest sticking points in the pas ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
... o far, no western country has announced its participation in the Chinese celebrations. By inviting Japan, China has put Abe in a quandary. If the Japanese leader accepts, he would be in the humiliatin ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
... arters of western ideology. Also, Beijing is unhappy about the way Vatican directly appoints Catholic bishops, believing that undermines the authority of the state. As a result, Beijing allows only th ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-13
... a and the Western Pacific Ocean. But these are not stopping people from spreading the most outrageous conspiracy theories. The present warning regime has been in existence since 1973 when five No. 8 ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
... w that in Western Han dynasty more than two millenniums ago, the government monopolized supply of salt, ironware and liquor in the name of stabilizing the market. This led to rampant corruption and pr ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
... nd in the Western New Territories, Tai Lam Country Park is Hong Kong’s second largest country park that covers an area from Tsuen Wan to Tuen Mun. Lau, who is a surveyor, said development cost would o ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... ironment. Western economies can also encourage private investment by reaching trade agreements and reinforcing export promotion. Overall, it is clear that the argument for combating secular stagnation ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... hile most western nations tightened their visa policies in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. In 2009, the outstanding number of refugees in the territory soared to more than 6,000 from 1,600 three years e ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-04
... fected by Western culture and ideas, prompting them to adopt a hostile attitude toward the mainland and harbor a negative feeling about the Communist Party. Given this situation, Beijing is now taking ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-30
... ng allied Western countries come after it emerged that the NSA had spied on Germany and Germany's own BND intelligence agency had cooperated with the NSA to spy on officials and companies elsewhere in ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-24
... including Western Airlines, started the failed luxury airline MGM Grand Air and launched an unsuccessful bid for Trans World Airlines. In the business world, he was known more for making a deal than f ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-17
... stern and western parts of the New Territories from Ma On Shan to Tuen Mun and Tsuen Wan with a 112 kilometer bicycle track, with 70 kilometers of the network needing to be built. The large-scale proj ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-16
... pressing western governments to sign extradition treaties. But even in the absence of such treaties, the Chinese government is calling for cooperation. The lack of extradition treaties doesn’t mean t ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-16
... es on the Western strategic front," Interfax news agency quoted him as saying. He said the Russian response was likely to include speeding up the deployment of Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad, a Russ ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-16
