... 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
Crude prices plunged after OPEC members rejected calls for a drastic cut in their oil output. Meeting in Vienna, the 12-member Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which supplies more th ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-28
... le is his ice-cold handshake and long face when meeting Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō at the APEC summit in Beijing earlier this month. Refusing to budge an inch to Hong Kong protesters over the ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-20
... year, police recorded more than 100 incidents of violent crime blamed on methamphetamine, more than the total number seen in the previous five years, Liu Yuejin, head of the public security ministry' ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-19
... landed twice." The European Space Agency's probe touched down on schedule just after midnight Hong Kong time on Thursday after a seven-hour descent from its orbiting mothership Rosetta, about 500 mil ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-13
... ve as the ice breaker between Obama and the Republican lawmakers who are mostly free-trade supporters. By successfully implementing the TPP, Obama could have one more legacy when he leaves the White H ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-05
... d Cheng, vice chancellor of Lingnan University, for showing bias toward embattled Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, calling him his "biggest fan", Apple Daily reported Wednesday. Undersecreta ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-22
... 1. The device burned through his jeans and left first- and second-degree burns on his leg, Phillip Lechter wrote, according to the Betabeat tech blog of the New York Observer. The ordeal began when th ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-20
