... ntral and western regions of the country. Many local governments rely heavily on land sales revenues to fund infrastructure construction. Regulators have told banks to strictly control their loans to ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-28
... threat of Western sanctions, including possibly the curtailment of gas imports by the European Union, provided impetus for sealing the accord now, one should bear in mind that negotiations between Chi ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
... st of the Western Australia capital Perth where they believe the plane crashed, the report said. The survey, likely to take two to three months, will enable sonar equipment to be safely deployed to t ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-27
... king with western consulting companies marks a further escalation in China's response. "The top leadership has proposed setting up a team of Chinese domestic consultants who are particularly focused o ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-26
... xports to Western Europe, industry sources said. It's much higher than the US$320 per 1,000 cubic meters that China pays for gas imports from Central Asia at present. On the other hand, the deal is ex ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-23
... se of the Western press by members of the British royal family to spread the propaganda campaign against Russia on a pressing issue - that is, the situation in Ukraine - as unacceptable, outrageous an ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-23
... ngh said. Western Europe has topped FDI in India in recent years, taking up 40.5 percent of the total foreign direct investment in India from 2007 to 2012, followed by the US with 30.2 percent. Meanwh ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-22
... with the western Russian administrative region of Tula Oblast to build a major SUV plant there. The new plant, to be up and running by 2017, will make Great Wall’s hit SUV marques like the H9 and H2 ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-22
China plans to take up 172 water conservancy projects, especially in the central and western regions that have been suffering from water shortage, by 2020, as part of efforts to increase the nation's ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-22
A parking spot at a luxury residential building in western Mid-Levels in Hong Kong is said to have been sold for a record HK$4.24 million (US$546,906), adding to the city's well-known notoriety as a h ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-21
... evival in Western demand, and imports shrank 8.5 percent.Cconditions are not likely to improve in the second quarter unless the political crisis is resolved, research company Capital Economics was quo ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
... nd on the Western Kowloon Highway after a motorcycle cop gave chase to a rider doing 269 kilometers per hour in an 80 kph zone. The rider was just too fast for the policeman who quickly faded into the ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
... however, Western Europe has secularized considerably, and the notion of basing political decisions on Catholic social teaching now strikes voters as quaint. As a result, the center-right parties appe ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-19
The China Journalist Association, an organization managed by the Communist Party, has dismissed western media criticisms that the country has one of the world's most restrictive media environments. Al ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-16
... ntral and western Africa and T. b. rhodesiense in eastern Africa – are transmitted through the bite of an infected tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans morsitan). In the early 20th century, HAT epidemics de ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-16
... gap with Western Europe today is smaller than it has been at any point since the year 1500. Given that the EU’s combined GDP is eight times larger than that of Russia, we should expect a path toward ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-15
... r to some Western democracies, in the city’s political structure under the Basic Law. The truth is the Legco runs independently from the executive authorities in accordance with their own rules and pr ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-14
... ts at the western end of the West Kowloon cultural district alongside museum M+, which was designed by Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron. Louis Yu Kwok-lit, executive director of performing arts ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-13
... s and pro-Western South Korea. North Korea has considerable mineral resources and a merger of the two Koreas could be an important Asian investment opportunity. Several discussions in Beijing also yie ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-13
... attacking Western democratic ideals. The Mirror Monthly published the whole document in September last year in its overseas edition. Ho, once a mainland reporter in his early career, was quoted as say ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-09
