... ilometers west of Cairo. The camel market buzzes with life before dawn. Trucks, fully loaded, swerve in and kick up storms of dust and sand. Aridness cracks over every pair of lips. Men and boys swat, ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-30
China's economy grew 6.9 percent last year. Internationally, the performance was portrayed as the "slowest in 25 years". What the deceleration signals is not China's demise, but the eclipse of Chinese ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-28
... te on the west coast, Reuters reports, citing Japan's Kyodo news agency. An unnamed Japanese official cited signs of possible preparations for a missile launch, saying it could happen in a week. This ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-28
Israel is under fire from the United Nations over a planned new settlement in the West Bank. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called it "provocative acts" that raise questions about Israel's commitmen ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-27
... es to the West and the East, to ancient and modern societies. Leaders in Hong Kong would be naïve if they believed they could be an exception to history. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economi ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-26
... us at the West Kowloon Cultural District. Vice President Wu Den-yih’s (吳敦義) youngest son graduated from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and now works at Deutsche Bank’s office in t ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
... ft in the West Kowloon region since last August, it said. Pretending to be a police officer, Chan would conduct searches on people and their belongings and steal valuables during the process. His ta ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
... eeing her West Kowloon District dreams come to fruition, with no single building completed before her term ends. Once the most popular official in the administration, Lam hit a new low in her approval ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
... ilometers west of the capital Islamabad on Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported. Military spokesman Lt. Gen. Asim Bajwa said soldiers killed all four assailants. Gunfire erupted around 9 a.m., ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
... north and west in 2014. "Those being held are predominantly women and children and come primarily from the Yazidi community," said the joint report issued in Geneva. Yazidi are a non-Muslim minority i ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-20
... he Marine West division. He said his uniform was inside a bag together with a shirt but police found no trace of it when they came to investigate. The incident is being treated as theft. No arrests h ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-19
... cademy at West Point and served as a military officer. After his military service, he earned a masters in business administration at Standford University, after which he put up his own fund managemen ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-19
Trains running on the new railway linking Poland’s Lodz with China’s Chengdu that opened last year usually heads west loaded with products made in China but returns to China far less laden. At present ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
... East and West – has attracted considerable attention. And for good reason: The project, which involves more than 60 countries and quite a few international organizations, implies unprecedented opport ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
... along the West Rail Line, will provide 1,100 units in the second quarter, contributing 35 percent of the company's projected sales this year together with two other developments to be sold in Yuen Lon ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-15
... and Seven West Media -- as well as the publicly funded ABC and SBS TV networks. Previous efforts to overhaul the sector to account for the rise of digital competitors and online streaming have run agr ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-14
... f-the-art western weapons, if war was to break out between the two neighbors there is a good chance that Iran may have the upper hand. That is because Iran is probably the strongest military power in ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
... ne of the West Kowloon Corridor, near The Pacifica residential project in Cheung Sha Wan, at around 6:50 a.m. on Tuesday, Apple Daily reported. The man, said to be a retired police officer, died on th ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
... per Kanye West and Paul McCartney. "I’m proud to think of the huge influence he has had on people all around the world ... His star will shine in the sky forever," McCartney said. "The Rolling Stones ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
... en’s southwestern Shekou district, which is near the Shenzhen Bay border checkpoint, this writer felt sympathy for those who had been lured into buying pricey waterfront homes in the area. The distric ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-11