In my previous article I discussed how former South Korean president Park Chung-hee, by bestowing favors on big business conglomerates, gave rise to “crony capitalism” and corruption in the country. T ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-24
A 93-year-old Hong Kong woman bagged a second gold medal in the biennial World Masters Athletics Championships in the South Korean city of Daegu. Cheung Suet-ling, the oldest athlete in the competitio ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-24
... n said in South Korea that negotiations "can only be achieved by denuclearization, giving up their weapons of mass destruction. Only then will we be prepared to engage them in talks". Previous negotia ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-24
... urope and South America. The biggest marijuana market for now is the US, with estimates that it will surpass US$20 billion by 2020. But importing cannabis to the US is illegal under federal law. The o ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-24
... from the South American country. Also, observers are wondering why it took the government four days to announce an import ban after the food safety issue was made public by Brazilian authorities las ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-23
Salvage operators in South Korea raised a ferry that sank nearly three years ago, killing 304 people, most of them children on a school trip, finally meeting the demands of mourning families. The 6,80 ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-23
With the dispute over the deployment of the US anti-ballistic missile system in South Korea continuing to escalate, some observers are worried that the saga might lead to an all-out military standoff ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-23
China's Sinopec (00386.HK, 600028.CN) will pay almost US$1 billion for a 75 percent stake in Chevron Corp's South African assets and its subsidiary in Botswana to secure its first major refinery in Af ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-23
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday said he trusted China would not build anything on a disputed South China Sea shoal because he was given its "word of honor" and Beijing would not want ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-23
... nt in the South Korean city of Daegu. She finished in a time of 25.37 seconds to win Hong Kong's first gold medal in the meet. Cheung was the lone contestant in the 80-90 age group, so she was assured ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-22
... rritories South regional police headquarters. The police arrested a 41-year-old man, surnamed Hung, and a 44-year-old woman, surnamed Lee, in Tuen Mun and Lok Ma Chau, respectively. Searches conducted ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-22
Hong Kong authorities announced Tuesday a ban on imports of Brazilian meat and poultry products following a food safety scandal in the South American country. In a statement, the Centre for Food Safe ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-22
Park Geun-hye's impeachment as South Korea's president and her fall from power probably marked not only the end of her political career but also the end of the political legacy of her father, Park Chu ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-22
... to Japan, South Korea and China... We, of course, are not afraid of any act like that," Choe told the news agency. "Even prohibition of the international transactions system, the global financial syst ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-22
... n said in South Korea that negotiations "can only be ac ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2017年03月22日
... ministry. South Korea's agriculture ministry said in a statement that it would tighten inspections of imported Brazilian chicken meat and temporarily bar sales of chicken products by BRF. -- Contact u ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-21
... ountries. South Sudan, Liberia, Guinea, Togo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Central African Republic were at the bottom. China was on 79th place, while Hong Kong was ranked No. 71 in the report. A ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-21
Seoul has complained to the World Trade Organization (WTO) about China's retaliation against South Korean companies over the deployment of a US anti-missile defense system in the South. "We have notif ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-20
... system in South Korea, Reuters reports. Beijing is also deeply suspicious of US intentions toward self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own, with the Trump administration crafting a big new arm ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-20
... o Taiwan, South Korea's installation of a US anti-missile defense system, and intrusions into the South China Sea. If they open their eyes to the realities that are there for all to see, they will kno ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-17
