... 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
... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang also pledged to improve economic dialogue. Park said she agreed with Abe and Li to work toward the conclusion of a 16-nation free tra ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-02
... in 2019," Prime Minister and AKP leader Ahmet Davutoglu told cheering supporters. He urged all political parties to work together on a new constitution, which Erdogan has said he would like to see inc ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-02
... l sector, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has promised that its interests will be fully taken care of. After all, farmers have long been the support base for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the post- ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-30
... retreat, Prime Minister David Cameron was “seeking assurances from Xi that the Hong Kong government would remain semi-autonomous and entitled to choose its leadership without prior vetting by the Chi ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-30
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi doubled his nation’s development assistance to Africa, announcing US$10.6 billion in cheap loans and grants to support healthcare, scholarships and clean energy on ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-30
... loomberg. Prime Minister Najib Razak introduced a dual-language program during his budget speech last week. “Malaysia has lost its competitiveness due to our standards in English going down,” AirAsia ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-29
... . British Prime Minister David Cameron brought up Hong Kong’s democratic development with Xi, who appeared to show it was the last thing on his mind. That won’t change anything and we can’t pin our ho ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-28
... h. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a goal of reaching the top 50 by 2017. Eritrea was the worst-ranked country, behind Libya, South Sudan and Venezuela. Since the ranking was created in 20 ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-28
A Pakistani charity has declined a US$150,000 donation from the Indian prime minister in recompense for 13 years of caring for a lost deaf-mute Indian girl whose quest to return home captivated the su ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-28
... prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to launch an urgent review. "If the Lords is intent on wrecking the manifesto of the elected government ... then of course we've got to address that," the leader ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-28
... y advised Prime Minister David Cameron against such a move. But Washington and London still share common values – something that is certainly not true of Beijing. Just before Xi's trip, an exhibition ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at a meeting in Seoul, probably on Sunday, Bloomberg reports. The meeting had been held annually until 2012 when the process broke do ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
... h India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, from Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters. And this week, Zuckerberg will be in New Delhi, where he will take questions from some of Facebook’s 130 million In ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-26
A lot has been said about Justin Trudeau, the 43-year-old incoming prime minister of Canada. Forget his career, in which he has spent 15 years as a drama teacher, and the fact that his father, Pierre ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-23
... on robust Prime Day sales and demand for electronics and general merchandise. Meanwhile, net sales from Amazon Web Services, which has more than one million active customers in 190 countries, rose mor ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-23
