Three years ago, sinologists in the West – led by Barclays Capital – introduced the term “Likonomics” to describe the central economic tenets of Premier Li Keqiang: no stimulus, deleveraging and struc ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-24
... ojects at West Kowloon, Lantau, Kai Tak and others such as high-speed rail venture will make little progress, Tien warned. The central government should realize that Leung's performance would only fue ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
MTR Corp. staff rescued a mixed-breed dog from being crushed by an oncoming train at the West Rail’s Kam Sheung Road station on Monday night, news website hk01.com reported on Tuesday, citing an onlin ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
... 50 miles) west of Detroit. Police were investigating reports Dalton drove customers of the Uber car-hailing service the night of the rampage. Uber said on Monday it would not be changing the way it sc ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
... e 240 km. west of Detroit, was the latest in a series of mass shootings that have made gun control a campaign issue in the November US presidential election. WOOD-TV, a Grand Rapids station, quoted po ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-22
... nd the US West coast, Bloomberg reported. Philippine Airlines will take delivery of the A350-900s in two years and the aircraft are meant to replace older A340 models, company president Jaime Bautista ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-18
... er in the West". But some British officials evidently have a different view. In 2014, China, in an unprecedented move, banned members of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee from visiting Hong ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-16
... ey of the West (西遊記): A Chinese Odyssey Part One -- Pandora's Box (月光寶盒) and A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (仙履奇緣), beat all movies featuring the monkey theme. As many as nine movies have been ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-15
A formal truce between the United States and North Korea to end 76 years of hostility is necessary if the West wants Kim Jong-un to stop developing nuclear weapons. “North Korea and the US still have ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-15
... en in the West as a major obstacle to latest efforts to end the war. Russian bombing raids directed at rebel groups are helping the Syrian army to achieve what could be its biggest victory of the war ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-15
... . Kowloon West Regional Commander Tommy Yu Tat-chung, Traffic Kowloon West Senior Superintendent Chan Kwok-kee and Mong Kok Police Deputy District Commander Yau Siu-kei were among the senior officers ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-12
Oil prices fell to their lowest level in more than 12 years as crude stockpiles at the delivery point for New York futures hit record highs, Bloomberg reported. West Texas Intermediate futures sank to ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-12
... g for the West Kowloon Cultural District. Guess where all the money went? Just how far we are heading back to the gloomy days of 2008 is not known but we are as curious as Hillary Clinton. The former ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-11
The Middle East has been witnessing dramatic changes in recent months, with Iran back in favor with the West and Saudi Arabia, a traditional US ally, on its way towards radicalization. There are certa ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-05
... CPI as a Western political tool used to attack a rising China? Do you strongly condemn Transparency International as an American puppet? After all, by most disreputable measures, China is already a p ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-04
North Korea is under mounting international pressure to call off a planned rocket launch seen by the West as another missile test. Meanwhile, Japan has placed its military on alert, with orders to sho ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-04
... en as the West ramped up sanctions against Tehran. Iran, said President Rouhani, would not forget "friends who helped us" in a difficult time. In 2014, bilateral trade amounted to US$52 billion. China ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-03
... the northwest of Syria?" British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said, according to Reuters. Speaking to reporters in Rome, Hammond dismissed Russian criticism that he was spreading "dangerous disin ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-03
... nt at the West Kowloon Terminus would erode Hong Kong's autonomy. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said the co-location of immigration clearance has been practiced in other jurisdictions such as the Un ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-02
... s. Darrel West of the Brookings Institution wrote that established business models "should not be punished for complying with regulations, nor should new businesses be punished for innovating”. The go ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-30