... es is the prime minister, elected by the legislature with members from all tribes in the region. Modeled on the Navajo Nation, the northernmost Nunavut region has seen some pro-independence activists ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-10
... al, which Prime Minister Najib Razak repealed in 2012. Human Rights Watch called the legislation "a giant step backwards for human rights". It was passed hours after the police announced the detention ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-08
Japan’s notorious, and occasionally fatal, culture of overwork may soon go the way of the slowly dying out tradition of lifetime employment, with the backing of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Long days in ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-08
... ive Shell prime gas reserves and help bolster the company in the stiff competition in the market it faces from rivals including Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. The deal talks come after Shell scal ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-08
... g Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. And Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front is polling well ahead of the 2017 French presidential election. Slow job creation and income growth may continu ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-02
... 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
