... y Sy’s SM Prime Holdings Inc. are on land large enough for high-density, mixed-used development, executive vice president Jeffrey Lim, 53, told Bloomberg News in an interview in Manila. Depending on d ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-01
... 99-a-year Prime membership service offers free two-day delivery on many items, is seeking to boost revenue and shore up shrinking margins by enticing high-frequency users to rely on the company for ev ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-01
Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is seeking more sweeping executive powers to replace martial law. That nudges the former general a step closer to absolute authority, according to the Washing ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-01
A Singaporean teenager has been charged over his online video assailing the authoritarian rule of founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and disparagingly comparing the late leader to Jesus Christ. Amos ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-31
Prime Minister Li Keqiang’s work plan for 2015, revealed at this month’s National People’s Congress, highlighted the country’s shift to a “new normal” of 7 percent economic growth. The shift to slower ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-30
Singapore gave Lee Kuan Yew an elaborate send-off befitting its founding father. Tens of thousands lined the streets under a torrential rain to bid farewell to Lee, Singapore's first prime minister w ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-30
... nd Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi round out the top five. China also contributes former NBA star Yao Ming (26th), Xiaomi founder and chief executive Lei Jun (29th) and JD.com founder and chief ex ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-27
... osing the prime minister is very different from... that of choosing the US president.” He said the British prime minister is only the leader of a majority party or coalition and not popularly elected. ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-27
... y-state's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during his 2013 National Day speech. In less than two years, construction of the fifth terminal complex, which will have an impressive glass roof canopy and a ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-27
... Britain’s Prime Minister for joining a China-led infrastructure bank, complaining this was evidence of the UK’s “constant accommodation” of Beijing. In spite of what appears to have been intense US ac ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-27
... y's first prime minister, told Tung that if most Hong Kong residents owned their homes, the society would be stable. However, with the city's different backgrounds, it would be unworkable for Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-26
Bakery chain BreadTalk Group pulled a bun commemorating Singapore's first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, from its shelves after drawing flak from social media users, Reuters reported. "We would like to ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-26
... h British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Beijing, during which the Chinese leader refuted Britain’s argument that Hong Kong would no longer prosper without British rule by citing the example of S ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-26
... id. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Iraqi forces will prevail with the support of "friendly" countries and the international coalition, including arms, training and aerial support. "We have ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-26
... dents and prime ministers, and his advice and opinions were sought by them long after he stepped down as prime minister in 1990; his books and articles were widely read around the world. The leaders o ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-25
Singapore's Prime Minister's Office has declared a period of national mourning until Sunday following the death of the city state’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew. After a state funeral Sunday at the Un ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-25
... . French prime minister Manuel Valls said a helicopter crew had landed near the crash site and found no survivors. Aerial photos indicated that the plane was pulverized. As the CVR was being analyzed ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-25
Lee Kuan Yew, a founding father of Singapore, ruled the city state as its first prime minister for over three decades. In 1960, the per capita gross domestic product of this mosquito-ridden island off ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-24
... its first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, who died Monday aged 91. The model is based on one-party rule, keeping a tight rein on the press and rewarding politicians with wages pegged to the top executiv ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-24
... d Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for abandoning a Palestinian state in the run-up to his re-election on March 17. Netanyahu is working to form Israel's next coalition government. Palestinia ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-24
