... for Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after he won the backing of parliament in the early hours of Thursday for the tough reform measures demanded by creditors led by Germany. Tsipras was left weake ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-17
... chamber. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says a bolder security stance is vital to meet new challenges, such as those from a rising China. Opponents say the revisions violate the post-war constitution's p ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
... e even as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faced a revolt by some members his own Syriza Party. Thirty-eight lawmakers from Syriza abstained or voted against the government, including former Finance Mini ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB, 00511.HK), Hong Kong's biggest free-to-air television broadcaster, has come under fire in the recent past for giving prime-time slots to mainland China-produced drama ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
... nfolding. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was still trying to convince the parliament to enact the economic reforms he has promised to the European Union to secure the rescue package the country badly n ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
... rn India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences to the victims' families. "Deeply pained at the loss of lives due to stampede at Rajahmundry," Modi said in a statement. "My condolence ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
... leaked as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras struggled to persuade leftist lawmakers to vote for an 11th-hour bailout deal that includes sharp cuts to welfare spending. The document was seen by Reuters whi ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
... el, whose prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has cultivated a close relationship with Obama's Republican opponents in Congress. "Iran will get a jackpot, a cash bonanza of hundreds of billions of dol ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
... s invited Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan to attend the celebration activities. The Chinese Foreign Ministry simultaneously announced that the leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faces a party revolt over a Greek bailout deal with eurozone leaders that imposes severe austerity measures on the near-crippled economy. Rebels in the left-wing Syriza p ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
... ring down Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' leftist government and cause an outcry in Greece, the news agency said. Even before the final terms were known, his labor minister went on state television to ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-13
... ce's then prime minister, George Papandreou, who planned to put a bailout plan to a referendum, the Financial Times reported. In the same year, as Italy set up an unelected government in response to t ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-13
... t. Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said wants "another honest compromise" to keep Europe united. But German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country is the biggest contributor to eurozone bailouts ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-13
... it said. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his cabinet colleagues drafted a last-ditch package of tax rises, pension reforms and economic liberalization measures, which the government hopes will conv ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
... erseen by Prime Minister Najib Razak. More than US$500 million in accounts belonging to Low Taek Jho -- also known as Jho Low, a Malaysian in his early 30s who helped set up 1MDB -- were the subject o ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
Thailand's prime minister defended a decision to forcibly return nearly 100 Muslim Uyghur migrants to China despite rights groups' fears they could face ill-treatment, Reuters reported. Prime Minister ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
... tail with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's more muscular security agenda, which includes lifting last year a decades-old ban on arms exports. The consortium, established in 1968 by four countries including ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
... ex legal. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party, which is strongly influenced by Hindu nationalist principles, has not made any effort to change the law, known as Section 377 after its place in ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-09
... epends on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras making a drastic turnaround on pension cuts, tax increases and other austerity measures after five months of acrimonious negotiations. Eurozone officials expect ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-09
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was seeking a last-minute rescue at an emergency eurozone summit in Brussels on Tuesday, days before his country's banks run out of money. EU leaders are scheduled ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
