Japan’s economy contracted more than expected in the third quarter on sluggish business investment, falling into its second recession since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in December 2012. Gros ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-16
... ment. Our prime mission is to promote creativity nationwide among the public as well as enterprises." In the early years, the government started off with promotion of Korean movies, believing that the ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-14
Hardworking Japanese deserve a break and if Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has his way, they should be rewarded not for working long hours. He wants their employers to compensate them for productivity. Als ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-13
Britain and India sought to reboot bilateral ties with plans to strengthen collaboration in finance, business, defense and energy as Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first official visit to the f ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-13
... ndeed, as Prime Minister David Cameron is well aware, given the dynamic of the UK’s relationship with the EU, British voters would undoubtedly choose to leave the EU. But Cameron also knows that he mu ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
... y blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's image. Among the initiatives announced Tuesday, overseas investors will be allowed to exit and repatriate construction sector investments even before project ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
... us as the prime gateway into and out of China, property experts and bank analysts say. The shift “[is] part of the grander plan with regards to the strategy of the government for financial institution ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
... ed as the prime target of the Syria air strikes. “We understand of course that, with the start of this operation, all these terrorist organizations in Syria and those that morally and financially supp ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad was interviewed by police over his criticism of Prime Minister Najib Razak but refused to answer questions. Three officers took Mahathir’s statement and asked ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
... h was the prime of students’ activism, Yuen, like many other teenagers at that time, read Karl Marx and took part in social movements in pursuit of an ideal society. In the end he was caught by the po ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-07
... d British Prime Minister David Cameron announced a new scheme, London-Hong Kong Connect (LHKC), to study the possibility of linking Hong Kong’s commodity markets with the London Metal Exchange (LME). ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-07
... ietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, meanwhile, stressed to Xi that the two nations should "study demilitarization in the East Sea (South China Sea), ensuring security and safety of navigation an ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is launching a program to lure tons of gold from households into the banking system. However, low returns and concerns over tax authorities hounding depositors may ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
... haired by Prime Minister David Cameron. Hammond's remarks came as Britain prepares to host a visit by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi this week. Egypt, a close ally of the United States and th ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
... in their prime marriageable ages are hard put to find a mate of the opposite sex. But a mainland university professor thinks there's nothing to worry about. Explaining the gender imbalance using simp ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
... Tuesday, Prime Minister Lyonchoen Tshering Tobgay said the index inched up to 0.756 this year from 0.743 in 2010, but that he did not know yet what was a good growth rate, Reuters reported. The const ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
... e's first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, a diplomatically sensitive visit given China's stance that Taiwan is a renegade province. China, which maintains a good relationship with Singapore, holds that ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
... ly in the prime marriageable ages. Some mainland scholars, in fact, have proposed polyandry to remedy the situation. Indian economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen once developed a model to estimate ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-03
As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sat down this week in Seoul with South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, he did so as the leader of a country that many people around ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-03
Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull scrapped knights and dames from the nation's honors system, less than a year after a furor sparked by the award of a knighthood to Prince Philip, Queen Eliz ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-02
