... pore, the prime minister's office said the children caught in the quake were from Tanjong Katong primary school, according to Reuters. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong declared June 8 a day of national ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
... them. But Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said Maroni, a former interior and labor minister, was partly responsible for locking Italy into an unfair European Union treaty that requires asylum seekers to a ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker rebuked leftist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and and warned that time was running out to conclude a debt deal to avert a damaging default. In u ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
... . British Prime Minister David Cameron aims to renegotiate the country's terms of membership in the EU before a referendum in 2017 on whether Britain should stay in the community. "I'm optimistic that ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-05
... t, led by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, plans to bundle the payments due this month into a single 1.5 billion euro chunk which is now due on June 30. The move came as Tsipras is trying to reach a dea ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-05
... met Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in Paris on Tuesday, in part to persuade his Shi'ite Muslim-led government to repair relations with Iraq's Sunni minority to strengthen its campaign against th ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-03
... th (Greek Prime Minister Alexis) Tsipras tomorrow," the report cited a senior EU official as saying. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande will put the plan to Tsipras ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-03
... n India”. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is trying to attract long-term capital investment by overhauling some key policies. For example, it changed the decades-old mining law and decided t ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-02
... Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, in an opening address at the security forum, underlined the dilemma facing the US. While he said the American presence “is welcomed by the many regional count ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-02
... r. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has a nationalist background, is unexpectedly more pragmatic than his predecessor, especially regarding China-India relations. In the past, most Chinese inv ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-01
... de, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras pushed for a political solution for the country's economic troubles, the report said. The teleconference "took place in a very good climate" and all three leade ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-01
... nies is a prime example of this. Secondly, and rather amusingly, he argues that prominent Hong Kong government officials have bought holiday and retirement homes on the mainland. Indeed, they have, bu ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-29
... sition of prime trade center in the region. But because of the lack of funding and technical support, the project never materialized. With the rise of the Asian Tigers in the 1970s, the plan was again ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-27
... However, Prime Minister Tony Abbott downplayed Hockey's pledge. Abbott said he understood why many people wanted to see an end to the tax, but that it was "certainly not something that this governmen ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-27
... er Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the protesters of Ferguson, Missouri. -- Contact us at [email protected] JP/RA ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-26
... lled as a prime shopping destination, featuring luxury brands targeting big spenders from the mainland. But Beijing's graft-busting purge, lower import tariff and increased e-commerce activity are clo ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-26
... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his government for "not facing the past" and not acknowledging the murder, medical experiments on humans and other atrocities carried out by his country’s milit ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-26
... r term as prime minister, Ma said. However, he holds a cautious view on Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. (00388.HK) given its overvaluation in terms of its P/E ratio. The multiple has already fac ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-26
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has unveiled a US$72 billion plan to revive slowing economic growth amid a collapse in oil prices and attacks from political rivals over a troubled development fun ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-22
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has unveiled a plan to expand Japan’s financing for infrastructure projects in Asia by 30 percent. The move suggests Tokyo intends to counter a new regional investme ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-22