... es are in prime locations, such as the Mid-levels and Kowloon Tong, apart from places such as To Kwa Wan and Sham Shui Po. But the government’s insistence on land premiums is coming in the way of prop ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-19
... Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to discuss the dispute. The Philippine navy this month held its first joint naval exercise with Japan in the South China Sea while the armed forces chief visite ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-19
Indian and Chinese firms signed deals worth about US$22 billion in Shanghai over the weekend, in a ceremony witnessed by visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The deals included a US$2.5 bill ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-18
... ay, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Athens had found some common ground with its foreign lenders but the government would not back down from its red lines, such as no cuts to wages and pensio ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-18
... prompted Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to call the country’s largely Shiite paramilitary force into the Sunni province, a controversial decision given the country’s simmering sectarian tensions and ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-18
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Premier Li Keqiang and other leaders in Beijing Friday, on the second day of his visit to China. Modi and Li sat down for talks at the Great Hall of the People, ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-15
Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel will become the first serving leader in the European Union to marry someone of the same sex -- and only the second worldwide -- in this tiny, mostly Catholic ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-15
... e. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has outlined plans to shore up economic growth and improve infrastructure facilities. However, big Indian infrastructure companies are grappling with a debt pile ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-14
... uang, the prime suspect who was arrested, didn’t flee Hong Kong, given that he was most familiar with the situation in the city. When all of his five accomplices were captured by mainland authorities, ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-14
... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed "deep repentance" over Japan's role in World War II and upheld statements by his predecessors but stopped short of issuing his own apology. – Contact us a ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-13
... r Italian Prime Minister -- is said to be talking to Chinese investors who may want to capture Hong Kong's first potential football club listing. Now, one may be amazed at how welcoming the Hong Kong ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-13
Amos Yee, the 16-year-old Singaporean who posted online a video criticizing the country's first prime minister, Lee Kwan Yew, shortly after his death in March, was found guilty by a Singapore court of ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-13
A global school league table from the OECD has put Asian nations in the top five spots, with Singapore taking the prime position and Hong Kong in the second place. The UK is in 20th place, among highe ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-13
... t year by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowing to help Southeast Asia maintain freedom of navigation and overflight in the region. The training comes amid international criticism of China's reclamation ar ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-12
... h Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Castro said he came out of the meeting with the pope "really impressed by his wisdom and his modesty". "When the pope comes to Cuba in September, I promise to go ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-11
... y India’s prime minister to Beijing – marks China’s own efforts to rebalance power in Asia and the Pacific around its own interests and priorities. Since the Ukraine conflict, Russia’s relations with ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-08
... Britain's prime minister. The result will be a crushing defeat for Labour and its leader Ed Miliband, who may now come under pressure to step down. UK election exit polls have a good track record but ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-08
... t. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi must take the consequences of such a change in the tax rules into account. He would not risk scaring away foreign funds after the economy has started to show an ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-07
Demand for prime office space in Hong Kong is likely to surge as the city's stock trading link with mainland China expands. Following the launch of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect, more financial ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-07
... d term as prime minister. Media reports show that this time the business community, as usual, is inclined to vote for the Conservatives. There is one more reason for them to do so -- the mansion tax, ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-07
