Forgive the Cantonese for mixing up ice and snow. After all, snow is something seen here once in a hundred years, if that often. The China Mail reported snow on The Peak on Jan. 17, 1893, when roofs ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-19
... r tasting ice cream. Anyone disposed to giving emotional comfort can engage in professional cuddling. Then there's designing roller coasters. That's a dream job for Shreela, a middle school student bo ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-19
... known as "ice", in his blood, which caused his premature death. His drug-addicted parents were later arrested for child neglect. The Social Welfare Department summoned an inter-departmental task force ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-18
... chmark indices - which could be further commercialized - and greater access to the multibillion-dollar freight derivatives market, the news agency said. It is the latest Chinese company to look at shi ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-17
... that the ice at the poles is melting, but Hong Kong is probably the only place on Earth that leaves the air conditioners on most of the time during winter, on buses and in the ubiquitous shopping mal ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
... s of vast ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica. The Potsdam scientists said that mathematical models they developed to estimate rising costs would work around the world. "You can apply it in Tokyo, ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
... rney's office said. Her male co-defendant, "John" Zhang Xinlei, who took part in the attack on March 28 last year, was sentenced to six years in state prison. Two days after the first attack, Zhai, Z ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-19
... awarded licenses to bottle water from Tibet’s ice-capped peaks. Two popular brands in China are Qomolangma Glacier, sourced from a supposedly protected reserve linked to Mount Everest, on the border ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-18
... ive, and vice chairman Charlie Munger, 92, field five hours of questions from shareholders, reporters and analysts about investing, the economy and life. And, of course, Buffett and his old-economy fl ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-17
Australian Federal Police have seized A$1 billion (US$710 million) worth of the drug "ice" in a shipment of silicon bra inserts and in art supplies, CNN reported. The bust is one of the biggest in Aus ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-15
... oft-serve ice cream, adzuki bean paste, mochi and green tea jelly served in a bamboo cylinder. I also ordered a cup of hojicha, which is a stronger green tea. This kind of assorted dessert set, be it ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-30
... oat at an ice sculpture show in Harbin more than 10 years ago when she was still a government bureau chief. Ip said the coat, which cost her more than 10,000 yuan at the time, was designed in Italy an ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-28
... s such as Ice Age, Rio, Alien vs. Predator, Planet of the Apes and Night at the Museum. Genting Malaysia said at the time that they would invest US$300 million in the theme park, which was expected to ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-26
In near-freezing temperatures on Sunday, a woman turned up the heat by defying police orders and challenging an Apple Daily reporter to a viral duel of their video clips of the incident. Guess what? S ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
... chance of ice and frost, Ming Pao Daily reported. The average temperature of 3.1 degrees was recorded on Sunday, the coldest in 59 years and the third lowest since 1885. The last time the HKO recorded ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
... chance of ice or frost. Ta Kwu Ling could experience temperature as low as 0.2 degree Celsius, Sing Tao Daily reported. Mok Hing Yim, senior scientific officer of the Observatory, said an intense cold ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
... the last ice age. Fifteen of the hottest 16 years on record have come in the 21st century. The heat during 2015 was relentless. Monthly records were broken for every month except January (second hot ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
... boring slices of white bread, for instance, a hotdog bun is used in Kasa's corned beef, tomato and scrambled egg sandwich. One might wonder if the food tastes as good as it looks or whether the new l ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-16
... higher prices. After two crazy winters in Boston, where I live, it would be hard to convince people that weather doesn’t matter. Last year, the city experienced the largest snow accumulation on reco ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
... stinging ice, while my legs lay limply on top of each other. All I could hear were voices shouting and swift scrapes of blades against the ice edging closer. The world was a blur, and all that I know ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
