... 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
... of their Western counterparts. For example, in most European countries, there are roughly 30 doctors for every 1,000 patients; in Nigeria, that ratio is closer to 4:100,000. Given such divergences, i ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-09
... d for 280 Western medicines and 250 Chinese patent drugs, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement. The move will allow producers to set prices based on production costs and ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-08
... gthen its western-bank image while undermining its Hong Kong characteristics, Bill Mak Sui-choi, associate professor of the Department of Finance and Decision Sciences at Hong Kong Baptist University, ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-08
... ntral and western regional infrastructure. It has also implemented a "discriminatory" credit easing policy by cutting bank reserve requirement ratios (RRR) for qualified rural banks only. Arguably, th ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-08
... iddle and western parts of Africa. In 2009, China Railway Construction landed a light rail project in Mecca, Saudi Arabia for US$1.77 billion, although it announced a year later the project has result ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-07
... port said western hostile forces have taken a diversified, expanded and covert approach in China, including infiltrating missionary activities. Violent assailants involved in terrorist attacks last ye ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-07
... gion, and Western sanctions have further unnerved already skittish investors. From 2002 to 2007, and again after the global financial crisis in 2008-2009, capital flows to emerging economies surged, a ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-05
The revolution in Ukraine and Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea have generated a serious security crisis in Europe. But, with Western leaders testing a new kind of financial warfare, the situation ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-05
... hicle. In Western countries like the US, the RV lifestyle is already very popular among senior citizens. Some retirees even sell their houses and travel in RVs all year long. In China, the RV culture ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-02
... se in the Western markets and its vast retail presence to negotiate better deals with landlords and other suppliers. The opportunities presented by the tie-up notwithstanding, L Capital Asia is prima ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-02
... plicating western buildings is not rare in China -- there are reproductions of the Eiffel Tower, London's Tower Bridge and an Austrian-style town, just to name a few. The university is set to admit st ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-02
The United States is putting up US$5 million for the arrest of a Chinese businessman accused of selling ballistic missile parts to Iran, in violation of western sanctions, the Wall Street Journal repo ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-30
... from the Western countries. -- Contact the writer at [email protected] CG ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-30
... o the way Western banks apply risk weights to assets under the Basel III international banking standards. The logic behind letting big banks participate more in calculating their regulatory capital is ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-29
... houses in western China, including major cities such as Xi'an and Chongqing, to grab opportunities in the country's growing logistics industry, Pearce told the newspaper, noting that the sector's outl ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-29
