... American South before the Civil War often referred to themselves in the third person in front of their white masters. Illeism is also used in the military, for example, the US Marines, in order to re ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-22
... t Lok Wah South Estate. It is believed that he wandered out of the premises before meeting with the accident. A spokeswoman for the elderly home said it is not known how the inmate managed to leave th ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-22
South Korea is likely to have fewer weddings and babies this year than ever before. This is due to a demographic shift that risks hurting the nation’s economy, Bloomberg reports. The number of marriag ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-22
... es in the South China Sea, it might become difficult for Malaysia, Indonesia and other Asian countries to share intelligence with Hong Kong. Commenting on the growing political tensions in the city, A ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-19
... or of his South Asian students, the largest ethnic group in his school. As is customary, he is standing by the gate as the students file in, shaking hands with each of them. The ritual is part of ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-19
... ilometers south of Indonesia, Christmas Island is only one-tenth of the size of Hong Kong with a population of just a little over 2000, most of whom are ethnic Chinese and Malaysians. First discovered ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-19
Ever since South Korea approved the United States' plan to deploy the THAAD missile system on its soil, relations between Beijing and Seoul have suddenly hit rock bottom. For China, the THAAD system i ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-18
... s held in South America. His arrest comes after police last week detained a director of THG Sports, an international sports hospitality company, Kevin Mallon, and a translator employed by the company, ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-18
... curity at South America's first Games. A US Olympic Committee spokesman said police had arrived at the Athletes' Village on Wednesday and asked to meet the swimmers and collect their passports. "The s ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-18
North Korea's deputy ambassador in London has defected with his family to South Korea, making him the highest-ranking Pyongyang diplomat ever to flee the isolated regime for the democratic South. The ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-18
... Games in South Korea (2018) and China (2022). Olympics should not be the exclusive monopoly of wealthy advanced economies or large emerging economies. However, as economic momentum is shifting from a ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-17
Dozens of asylum seekers clashed with immigration officers at the Castle Peak Bay Immigration Center (CIC) Sunday night, demanding their release from detention. The group, mostly South Asians, African ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-16
... es in the South China Sea, both countries are looking for a way to end their impasse. China has rejected the ruling as invalid but it faces international opprobrium as an outlier who doesn’t live by g ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-15
... rtment, a South Asian man befriended the maid and asked her to use her employer’s home address to receive a package for him. When the first delivery came, the maid refused to receive the package that ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-15
... n the New South Wales electricity group Ausgrid, the country’s biggest electricity network. The same day, the US government announced an indictment against CGNP and one of its engineers, Allen Ho, for ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-15
... nizers of South America's first Olympics. In addition to the swimmers, Swedish tourists were briefly abducted when they visited a slum, Portugal's visiting education minister was robbed at knife point ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-15
... ds in the South" and had penned several articles about his life as a university student during the Cultural Revolution. As this year marks the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Cultural Revoluti ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-12
Yesterday I mentioned that Beijing's stance towards North Korean asylum seekers saw a positive change in 2012, thanks to the improved relations between China and South Korea. Another factor that contr ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-12
... . The New South Wales state government had hoped to raise more than A$10 billion from the 99-year lease of the electricity network, using the money to fund new infrastructure construction and pay down ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-12
... ai resort south of Bangkok and many people will have gone there for the holiday weekend. The second bomb exploded near a bar at about 10:20 p.m., local deputy police chief Samer Yousamran said. A Tha ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-12
