... 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
... nt, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party doesn’t have a majority of the seats. The opposition Congress party walked out during the vote on Wednesday, after its demand that the b ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-07
... he wire." Prime Minister David Cameron, meanwhile, said only his Conservatives can deliver a strong and stable government, warning that "all other options will end in chaos", Reuters reported. If neit ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-07
... Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, maintains close ties with Linda -- whose father insists that he is innocent and dismisses Beijing's charges. The Cheng family stands out as an exception, the S ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-06
... an deputy prime minister Arkady Dvorkovich as saying. The move to cede greater stakes in energy assets to Beijing comes as Moscow needs Chinese financing amid a fall in oil prices and Western sanction ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-06
The new guidelines for the US-Japan defense cooperation were released at the end of last month (prior to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s state visit to Washington). Compared to the first and revi ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
... y. Former prime ministers Gordon Brown of Britain, Julia Gillard of Australia and the late Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore have visited. Former World Bank president Robert Zoellick and former US treasury se ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... ndonesia. Prime Minister Tony Abbott called the executions "cruel and unnecessary". A mentally ill Brazilian man and four African men were also executed. A Filipina single mother, Mary Jane Veloso, wa ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... dache for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is trying to persuade young people that they don’t need to go to university to have a good career. After a clampdown on immigration and a slowdown in the ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
Talks between Greece and its international lenders over reforms to unlock further bailout aid are gaining headway and an agreement could be closer this month. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's three-mon ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... enomics,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s reform program. Its launch has sharply weakened the yen and is now leading to rising trade surpluses. The upward pressure on the US dollar from the embrace of qua ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... reported. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that the government remains “pro-business and pro-investment” but that investment rules must ensure “that the foreign investment we need really is in Australi ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... 's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso, came as the ADB's board of governors began on Saturday a four-day annual meeting. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed "deep repentance" over Japan's role in World War II in a speech to the US Congress Wednesday. At the same time, he declared Tokyo's emergence as a global s ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-30
... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Obama assured Tokyo of US commitment to defend Japanese territory, including tiny islands in dispute with Beijing, Reuters reported. "I want to reiterate that our ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-29
... ustralian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told media in Canberra. "I want to stress that this is a very important relationship between Australia and Indonesia, but it has suffered as a result of what's bee ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-29
