... e Kowloon East constituency, once noted during a television interview that without crucial support from the Liaison Office - like community networking to canvass for votes - he could not have won the ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-25
... ts in the east of the country. It was not clear, however, if Lithuania was following the US, a fellow NATO member, in providing non-lethal military equipment or whether it was supplying weaponry -- so ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-25
... he Middle East. According to the IMF, China’s gross domestic product this year will be US$17.6 trillion, outstripping US output of US$17.4 trillion. Of course, because China’s population is more than ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-24
... Bank and East Jerusalem. -- Contact us at [email protected] FL/RA ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-19
... its “Far East”. Some was very pleasantly surprising – like Sino-American agreement on a new Information Technology Agreement (ITA) that will bring down tariffs on lots of electronic goods and compone ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-17
... thermore, East Asia’s growth model has been sustained ultimately by mobilizing rising domestic savings and pumping out exports. So, although India might initially absorb some international capital, it ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-13
NATO has accused Russia of sending tanks, artillery and troops into eastern Ukraine to help the separatist forces there, a charge which Moscow has denied as "unfounded". "We have seen columns of Russi ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-13
... claims in East and Southeast Asia to cyberspying, trade and human rights. Obama, meeting Xi in Beijing's Great Hall of the People for their first formal talks in more than a year after a dinner meetin ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-12
... said at least two people were killed in accidents on icy roads. Snowy roads were blamed for a Wisconsin school bus crash that sent two adults to hospital. The big chill came as a shock, as it suddenl ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-12
... s Bank of East Asia (00023.HK). Only time will tell how all of these overseas forays by ICBC and its peers perform, though most of them look relatively well-conceived due to the choice of strong local ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-11
... ift – at least for now. But serious challenges lie ahead. Private and public debts in advanced economies are still high and rising – and are potentially unsustainable, especially in the eurozone and J ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-11
... ds in the East China Sea, the report said. Chinese buyers have been taking advantage of a 20-year-long decline in Japanese housing prices, coupled with incentives from the government of Prime Minister ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-11
... off from East Berlin and the rest of East Germany. They were set free one by one on Sunday, to symbolize the breaching of the wall by protesters on Nov. 9, 1989, Reuters reported. Festivities drew mo ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-10
Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with the nation's top security chiefs on Thursday over what Moscow said was a deterioration of the situation in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reported. The talks ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-07
... – in the East China Sea and Abe’s decision to visit Yasukuni, a shrine where World War II criminals are among those commemorated, last December. The Ogasawara and Izu islands are not part of the disp ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-05
... ersity of East-West Medicine, is facing visa fraud charges in connection in a similar scheme, according to authorities. He has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to go on trial next month. In the Tri ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-05
... South and East China seas, as well as over cyber spying and human rights. These disagreements “will undoubtedly continue to test the relationship”, Kerry said. Nonetheless, the two nations play cruci ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-05
... rminal in East Kowloon, to avoid protesters near the original venue on the Central waterfront. In just three weeks, the organizers managed to line up transport and electric power and meet fire prevent ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-04
... he Middle East and North Africa suffer from the widest gender gap, with women reaching only 40 percent of parity in the workplace, on average, compared with nearly 80 percent in North America. Indeed, ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-03
... Mong Kok East and Causeway Bay in the coming year. -- Contact us at [email protected] JH/JP/CG ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-31