... w Zealand Prime Minister John Key said the reports contained errors and false assumptions, but did not elaborate. He said the GCSB gathered "foreign intelligence that is in the best interests of New Z ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-06
... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met in Beijing in November, on the sidelines of an annual summit of Asia Pacific Economic Conference. Their meeting, though brief and chilly, raised hopes for furth ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-06
... ri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament last month the Port City deal lacked "transparency". "If there has been any corruption, if there are any conditions detrimental to the cou ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-06
... krit is a prime example of what we are worried about. Iran is taking over the country," Prince Saud al-Faisal, foreign minister of the Sunni Muslim kingdom, said after talks with US Secretary of State ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-06
... him as a prime mover in taking Hong Kong to the world stage, which is in line with the national “going out” strategy. But poor Henry, he just made a fool of himself. His example in Beijing should de ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-05
... st deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, Nemtsov was now only a member of the Yaroslavl city legislature. The question remains: did Putin feel, and should he have felt, threatened by ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-05
... macies in prime shopping areas will have little impact on the sector. Instead, it will encourage the healthy development of the retail industry as a whole, he said. The Hong Kong government is studyin ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-05
... r British Prime Minister Gordon Brown advocated for the creation of a new asset class for infrastructure – as we have done previously, as well. So how, exactly, can the world harness the potential of ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-05
... still the prime focus of each legislative year. But in the two years before the handover in 1997, Patten took a back seat and yielded the headlines to Donald Tsang and other local officials. To work i ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-04
... ast week, Prime Minister Tony Abbott's government pledged to control foreign investment in the country's residential property market by raising fees and imposing heavy fines for those who violate the ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-04
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been drawn into a growing scandal over political donations, with reports surfacing that a local branch of his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) received donations f ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-04
... The loan prime rate (LPR) dropped 21 basis points to 5.3 percent on Monday. That will benefit companies. The direct benefit for stock markets depends on whether the rate cut will lure more money into ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-04
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday urged US lawmakers to defy the Obama administration and block a nuclear agreement with Iran, warning that the proposed deal could create a "nuclear ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-04
... will be a prime time for policy-driven speculative activities. The two sessions refer to the upcoming annual meetings of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-03
... will be a prime time for policy-driven speculative activities. Against this backdrop, high-speed railway and infrastructure stocks appear attractive in terms of valuations, considering Beijing's big s ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-03
... ital, the Prime Minister’s office said on Saturday, in its latest bulletin. "His condition has slightly improved," it said. Goh Chok Tong, who succeeded Lee as Prime Minister in 1990 and is now Emerit ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
Investors hoping to see Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi radically reshape economic policy and supercharge growth might soon need to re-examine their expectations. On Saturday, Modi’s government pl ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
... ngapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong even holds real-time question and answer sessions called “Facebook chats” to interact with youngsters. He also issues official statements on the platform, incl ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-27
... d British Prime Minister David Cameron before petrified hostages cowering in orange jump suits. Emwazi's name was first disclosed by the Washington Post, citing unnamed former associates, but two US g ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-27
... rnment of Prime Minister Tony Abbott wants foreign investors who buy Australian property worth up to A$1 million (US$785,000) to pay a A$5,000 application fee. Those who apply to buy a business worth ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-26
