... veal that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's broader goal to beef up the military has evolved to include a strategy to dominate the sea and air surrounding the remote islands. While the installations are not ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe welcomed the verdict. "I expect that it will have a positive effect on the Japan-South Korean relationship," he said in Tokyo. Relations between the neighbours are ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
... ides with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts to draw more women into a shrinking workforce, although his conservative party was against changing the 19th century law. The statute does not specify whi ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
... oyment of prime-age males should be rising, not falling. But this will be true only if new 21st-century technologies require significant amounts of labor to develop and install, compared with the jobs ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
... stores in prime tourist spots and relocated them to second-tier locations, including shopping malls targeted at the mass market, Wen Wei Pao reported. It is also setting up pop-up stores offering less ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
... t, former prime minister of Australia; US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter; Susan Rice, the first African-American woman to be US ambassador to the United Nations and currently the US national secur ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
... Singapore Prime Minister Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said this year that an “entrepreneurial culture” is needed to make what he calls the “Smart Nation” initiative work. “The places which have succ ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
India and Japan have signalled deeper strategic ties to try to level the playing field with China. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, signed a slew of agreem ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-14
India has decided to partner with Japan for a multibillion-dollar high-speed rail project in the western part of the country, according to several reports Thursday. Under the plan approved by Prime Mi ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-11
... been the prime growth engine of China’s economy. China held those three elements together by reducing the cost of transactions and providing incentives for local officials to embark on economic devel ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-10
... Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the "Heart of Asia" conference in Islamabad, the Wall Street Journal reported. "We very much hope that this effort will result in a result-oriented peace proce ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-10
... Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Hong Kong’s resilient media industry and vibrant online forums contrast sharply with Singapore’s official propaganda and government-regulated public discourse ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-09
Following months of deliberations, the government announced Tuesday a trial scheme that will allow a limited number of food trucks to be operated at prime tourist spots by the end of next year. Under ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-09
... rnment of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to say the economy is on a recovery track after a revised decline of 0.5 percent in the second quarter. A recession is often defined as two consecutive quarters of ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-09
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak came under new pressure over allegations of graft at state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd during an annual assembly of the ruling party. Deputy Presiden ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-09
Pacific Investment Management Co. has named two former central bank chiefs and a former British prime minister to sit on a new board to advise on economic, political and strategic developments. Ben Be ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-08
... of former Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, and was a co-investor in several businesses with Wen family members, The New York Times reported. Close associates said he had dated Wen’s daughter, Wen Ruchun. “H ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
... he French prime minister and European Commission officials met separately with Facebook, Google, Twitter Inc. and other companies to demand faster action on what the commission called "online terroris ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
... o British Prime Minister David Cameron, everybody has to make his or her decisions. Whether to be courageous and speak out for justice, or avoid and deny the facts for personal safety or to protect na ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-05
... the first prime minister of Singapore, provided the vision for such a fund, and the city state established the Central Provident Fund in 1953. Mainland China set up its pension plan in 1951. Both Chin ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-05
