Qatar will become the first renminbi clearing hub in the Middle East next month, marking a big step in reducing the dependence of oil exporting countries in the Gulf on the US dollar. Bilateral trade ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
... er of Far East Consortium, was found unconscious on Tuesday in his home in Ting Kau. He was brought to Yan Chai Hospital, which he co-founded in 1973, and was pronounced dead. The Shanghai-born busine ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
... known as East Pakistan, Bangladesh is plagued with ongoing unrest and violence. Despite the internal strife, the country consistently contributes one of the largest peacekeeping forces to the United ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
... ts in the East China Sea while South Korea and Japan have a separate dispute over tiny islands. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
... he Middle East. Marzuki Darusman, UN special rapporteur on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, told Reuters that some of the North Korean workers are reported to be in Qatar helping build facil ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
... e, or at least towards a relaxed policy direction. Historical statistics show that the mainland stock market is closely linked with the monetary policy direction. Last year, M2 growth moderated but th ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-13
... tween the East and the West. The newspaper quoted Occupy Central co-founder Chan Kin-man as saying it is the Hong Kong government that has damaged the reputations of local universities, not the pro-de ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-12
... he Middle East and has maintained a stridently pro-free speech stance. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-11
... e Bank of East Asia Ltd. (00023.HK) and Standard Chartered Plc. (02888.HK), are also adjusting salaries based on staff performance, the report said. [Chinese version中文版] Translation by Vey Wong -- Con ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-10
... ned on an East Rail train to the New Territories. The driver was forced into an emergency stop in Fo Tan station where the woman dumped her handbag on the platform. She was unharmed. A spokesman for M ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
... he Middle East Oil and Gas conference in Bahrain. "If we don’t have more supply, there will be a shortage and the price will rise again," he said. Brent crude, the global benchmark, was trading at abo ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
... lding the eastern gas line and sign a co-operation agreement for the western line. During a visit to Beijing in November, Russian President Vladimir Putin reached a preliminary agreement for Gazprom, ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
... ds in the East China Sea controlled by Japan but claimed by China, the newspaper said. The islands are known as the Diaoyu in Chinese and the Senkakus in Japanese. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Ja ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-06
For years, China has sought to encircle South Asia with a "string of pearls": a network of ports connecting its eastern coast to the Middle East that would boost its strategic clout and maritime acces ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-05
... ported in East Asia, including the Korean Peninsula, WSJ said. North Korean state media has accused the United States of developing the virus as a biological weapon. -- Contact us at [email protected] ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-04
... namics in East Asia and beyond,” said Ely Ratner, a senior fellow and deputy director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. Dean Cheng, senior research fellow ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-04
... , Bank of East Asia Ltd. (00023.HK) and Hong Kong and China Gas Co. Ltd. (00003.HK). “Multinational companies are usually more sophisticated in terms of understanding the business case for having an i ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-03
... he Middle East -- a very real prospect -- could compromise the security of tens of millions of people who, under international law, would have a legitimate right to claim asylum. A better, more active ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-03
... zation in East Asia", said unaffordable property prices and higher living costs are hampering the flow of high-quality talents to Hong Kong. The four dragons in the book title refer to Taiwan, South K ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
... a off the east coast. Describing the tests as a "provocation" in response to the start of the military exercises, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that it remained "vigilant against any a ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
