... or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, a flu-like disease first reported in 2012 and mostly linked to Saudi Arabia. Ming Pao says the woman had been back two weeks from South Korea where a MERS outbreak ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-11
... e Bank of East Asia Ltd. (00023.HK) to consider secondary listings in China to tap into mainland capital. But now some lenders, including StanChart, have given up the plans, according to Hung. Trans ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-11
A joint South Korean-World Health Organization mission studying an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) recommended schools be reopened, as they were unlikely to spread the disease, Reu ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-11
... of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which has killed seven people and infected 95 others as of Tuesday. The City University of Hong Kong, meanwhile, said it has talked to several South Korean ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-10
South Korea's Health Ministry said Wednesday two more people have died in the country's outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and 13 new cases have been reported, taking the total to 108 ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-10
South Korea’s initial stumble in dealing with Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) highlights important lessons from previous viral outbreaks in Asia. Experts say a quick, comprehensive quarantine ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-10
The Hong Kong government on Tuesday issued a "red alert" against non-essential travel to South Korea following an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in that country. The government sa ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
... rawn northeast of Taiwan (outside the South China Sea) as a proclamation of its suzerainty over the island. Beijing’s latest addition to the nine-dashed line lies in the waters between Taiwan’s Yilan ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
South Korea's health ministry said Tuesday there were eight new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Reuters reported. The increase brings the total to 95 but is a sharp fall in the numbe ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
... or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome first reported in 2012 and linked mostly to Saudi Arabia. Hong Kong's health response level is the highest since the South Korean outbreak, although it is not an of ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
... eople. In East Asia, too, the last few decades saw authoritarian governments give way to liberal democracies in South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and Taiwan. The immovable object is China. The C ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
... he Middle East and Singapore and needs a license approval from authorities in Hong Kong. Branson, a former banker at UBS who has led the authority since April 2014, said the quality of home-market reg ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
As concerns grow about the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) following the outbreak in South Korea, questions are being raised whether Hong Kong's screening procedures on incoming airline passen ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
... ee Middle East carriers they accuse of receiving US$42 billion in government backing. The subsidies allow them to compete unfairly, they said. Emirates Airline, Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways deny t ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
Five people have now died in South Korea of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). The government said Sunday 14 more people have been confirmed as having been infected, The Wall Street Journal rep ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
... . In Southeast Asia, the Rohingya crisis is as serious as the humanitarian catastrophe in the Middle East but gets scant attention from other countries, except from those directly affected by it such ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-06
South Korean authorities squabbled on Friday over their handling of an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) as a fourth person died and five new cases were reported, Reuters reported. T ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-05
... , Bank of East Asia (00023.HK) and others were less than 100 percent, which may mean that provisions are still inadequate. In the past six months, HSBC's (00005.HK) share price fell 4 percent while St ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-05
Lawmakers urged the government to seek more information from South Korea about the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, which has killed two people there. Joseph Lee Kok-long, who rep ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-04
... he Middle East and container ships from Europe, and over which military and commercial aircraft routinely fly, was subject to the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty (UNCLOS). To back up its territor ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-04
