... emover, priced at just US$5, drew less interest. Meanwhile, Dairy Queen sold out its 26,500 ice cream bars, Mini Blizzards and cake slices. Buffett paid US$1 for his 7:15 a.m. ice cream fix, just bef ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... n Sunday. Ice-cool whenever he faced adversity, the American known for his brilliant putting closed with a two-under-par 70 to match Woods' tournament record low of 18-under 270 for 72 holes, Reuters ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-13
... sip your ice-cold beer? Well, this is exactly what Raising the Bar, an organization that aims to make education a part of a city's popular culture, intends to facilitate for the city's pub-crawlers. ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-31
Chen Guangbiao, a well-known, if controversial, entrepreneur and philanthropist, has admitted to Chinese media that his high-profile Ice Bucket Challenge last year was fake. Last August, Chen, who mad ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-20
... and Qoo juice plus chocolate ice cream in Ruby Tuesday has 1,300 kilocalories, equivalent to eating six bowls of rice or a full day's energy requirement for four-year-old boys or five-year-old girls. ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
Orient Securities Co.'s US$1.6 billion initial public offering, the largest listing in mainland China since 2011, was oversubscribed over 90 times as new rules capping IPO prices and soaring industry ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-13
The government plans to review its policy towards hawkers, and may even grant new licenses to street vendors and dai pai dong operators. People hope the review will lead to a change in the attitude of ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-06
... rative officers, heads of schools and faculties, professors and student representatives. Academic staff make up more than half the top governing body to ensure the university is run collectively by pr ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
... sidering licensing food trucks and allowing more Chinese-style cafés to operate in open spaces. The trucks will be introduced to tourist areas like Sai Kung, the Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade and Central. ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-26
... Apes and Ice Age movies. He is likely to start his new job in the next week or so, sources close to the company said. Rothman was known for financial discipline when he co-led Fox Filmed Entertainmen ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-25
... me, he noticed that many Hong Kong and mainland tourists wanted to travel to South Korea after being influenced by Korean popular culture. He also observed that hotel room rates in that country were c ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-23
... ntific Officer Ho Chun-kit, the Monday phenomenon was the most visible such event in recent years, with rainbow colors seen from within the cloud holes due to reflections of sun light. People living i ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-20
... ffairs Office. He is in charge of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macau Studies, a high-level think tank on Hong Kong affairs directly under the State Council. Therefore, his word carries wei ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
... gency. Police handled 52,800 drug crime cases from late September to December during a campaign dubbed "Ban drugs in hundreds of cities", Xinhua said, quoting the Ministry of Public Security. The camp ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
... tself. 2. Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano explodes. Several small-scale eruptions about 150 to 500 meters beneath the ice sheet were noted in August 2014. However, a big explosion of the volcano could e ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-08
... French police said he had flown to Paris from Montreal. Investigators have said a video posted online, in which a man apparently uses an ice pick to kill another man, is believed to show Lin's murder. ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-24
... of water-ice in which methane gas is trapped. From time to time, these could be destabilized, perhaps by some mechanical or thermal stress, and the methane gas would be released to find its way up th ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-17
Crude prices are under US$60 and falling as Saudi Arabia's defiance against production cuts continues to roil the market. Benchmark oil prices have slumped below US$60 a barrel in New York for the fir ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-12
... , melting ice sheets, shrinking glaciers, rising sea levels and widespread flooding — events that could harm the world’s population and economy. Recent reports show that there may be no way to prevent ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
... h cuts no ice with his old-money neighbors. Pacquiao, 35, was elected to Congress in 2010. Like many wealthy Filipino politicians, AFP reported, he frequently receives constituents asking for hand-out ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-28