Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policy toward his country’s “near abroad” and the West has been badly misunderstood. Instead of focusing on broader geopolitical patterns – in particular, the effect ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
... e central west coast city Saturday. He quit as a legislator several days before the election and beat the incumbent mayor, Jason Hu of the establishment Kuomintang (KMT). In a statement on his Faceboo ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-02
... pe that a west European country such as Sweden might grant him asylum. The awards jury, in its citation, said Snowden was being honoured “for his courage and skill in revealing the unprecedented exten ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-02
... anchin of West Virginia argue, entirely convincingly, that the composition of the Fed’s board of governors should be tilted away from people who are connected with big Wall Street firms. Meanwhile, Ho ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
... ny in the west who automatically equated their religion with terrorism. The pope's predecessor, Benedict XVI, caused storms of protest throughout the Islamic world in 2006 when he made a speech that s ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
... oping the West Kowloon Cultural District, reducing poverty and promoting political reform – Tsang appears to work part time. His main job, we know, is writing his Sunday blog posts. This month, he eve ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-28
... sion, the West Texas Intermediate benchmark fell below US$70 a barrel for the first time in over four years, while the Brent contract for January fell 6.3 percent to $72.82 a barrel on the ICE Futures ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-28
An experimental Ebola vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline has passed early safety tests, offering hope for some breakthrough in the fight against the disease that has claimed thousands of lives in West Af ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-27
... tract for West Texas Intermediate, the US-focused barometer was US$73.95 a barrel, a four-year low, according to USA Today. OPEC has a formal supply target of 30 million barrels a day but for the past ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-27
... ce is The Westpoint, one of the tallest office towers in Sai Ying Pun that dwarfs the mostly old tenement blocks in the district. The 41-storey, 187-meter tower with a spherical observation penthouse ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
Former British prime minister Tony Blair urged Western nations to cooperate with Russian President Vladimir Putin in fighting Islamist extremism, which he calls “the largest long-term security threat ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
... country’s west coast. Australian authorities last month identified two broad areas where the jetliner is likely to have crashed, based on communications between the plane and an Inmarsat satellite. Bu ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-26
... virus in West Africa. This requires, first and foremost, a sustained “surge response” to Ebola in the three most affected countries. Such a response must be underpinned by adequate (and considerable) ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-25
... n for the West Kowloon Cultural District. Unlike his relatively discreet predecessors, the Liaison Office's current director Zhang Xiaoming (張曉明) doesn't mind being seen often on the public stage. Sin ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-25
United States imports of crude oil from OPEC are at their lowest in almost 30 years, underlining the impact of the country's shale gas production on the global crude market. Advances in hydraulic frac ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-24
... t off the west of the North Island, and sank the next day with the loss of 13 lives. While human remains and occasional flotsam washed up on Hokianga beaches, the location of the wreck had remained a ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-21
Israel has approved the building of 78 new homes in two settlements on West Bank land annexed to Jerusalem. The decision is likely to aggravate Palestinian anger at a time when violence has flared, in ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-20
... re in the west coast of United States was two degrees higher in October, one degree higher in Hawaii, and half a degree higher in Japan and Indonesia. Locally, there were nine winters with El Nino eff ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-19
... of Jewish West Jerusalem said about 25 people were praying in a service when shooting broke out. United States President Barack Obama said strongly condemned the violence. Speaking to reporters at the ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-19
... cy in the West and usually tracks the trend of the US and European stock markets. However, this doesn’t apply to the Shanghai A-share market, which tends to focus more on domestic policies and has bee ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-17
