Southeast Asian leaders have softened their stance on China's territorial claims in the South China, handing Beijing a diplomatic victory. Their reticence in discussing Beijing's defiance of an intern ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-09
... ub to the south, while the United Nations warns of the world's most complex humanitarian operation this year. Iraq's recapture over the summer of Qayyara airbase and surrounding areas along the Tigris ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-09
... ilometers south of St. Petersburg. When a boy said he wanted to pee, his mother, instead of taking him to a toilet, just let the kid relieve himself onto the floor inside the palace. The palace staff ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-08
... ps of the South Korean firm have been denied access to ports around the world, cargo owners are scrambling to try to recover their goods and get them to customers, the paper said. Samsung Electronics ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-08
China and the ASEAN have agreed to set up a phone hotline to help avoid accidental military clashes in the South China Sea. The accord was reached at a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nat ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-08
... ting with South Korean leader Park Geun-hye in Vientiane. Obama also stressed that the US is committed to a missile-defense system for South Korea to deter the threat of North Korea, the report said. ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-07
... os, where Southeast Asian leaders are meeting for an annual summit. Obama learned about the insult as he emerged from the Group of 20 summit in Hangzhou, China, Reuters reports. At a news conference, ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-06
... a region south of Pyongyang and flew about 1,000 kilometers, hitting Japan's air defense identification zone, according to the South Korean military. The missiles, believed to be medium-range Rodong- ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-06
... East and South Asia. In 2012 Jolie was appointed special envoy of the UNHCR, and she launched the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict initiative along with former British foreign minister William ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-05
Hanjin Shipping Co., South Korea's largest container shipping firm, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States in a bid to prevent its vessels from being seized by creditors. The company ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-05
... rs of the South China Sea, and stressed US commitments to its regional allies. According to a "fact sheet" on China-US relations issued on Sunday, the two sides agreed on a range of issues, including ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-05
The Philippines expressed "grave concern" over what it called an increasing number of Chinese boats near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, Reuters reports. It demanded an explanat ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-05
... gcheng in southern Guangdong province, home to a lychee tree forest. Known by its scientific name macrolepiota albuminosa (雞樅菌), edible fungi thrive in areas with an abundance of lychee trees. In L ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-02
... d, in the south of High Island in Sai Kung District, is part of the Ung Kong island group (甕缸群島). Underwater caves hog the coastline, making it popular with nature trekkers. We recently trekked from o ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-02
... as at the South China Normal University in Guangzhou, reminded him of a resettlement estate of old Hong Kong, Ho says. The picture, titled Silenced, was so well-received that it won the second place i ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-02
... f bees in South Carolina as authorities in a county sprayed a powerful insecticide in a bid to eradicate Zika-carrying mosquitoes. On Sunday, parts of Dorchester County were sprayed with Naled, a comm ...More
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... while, in south Florida, where nearly 50 cases of Zika have been reported in non-travelers, officials said they trapped the first mosquitoes that tested positive for the virus, further confirming repo ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-02
... t Isua in southwestern Greenland, which they said were fossilized groups of microbes similar to ones now found in seas from Bermuda to Australia. If confirmed as fossilized communities of bacteria kno ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-01
North Korea has executed its vice premier for education and rebuked two high-ranking officials, South Korea said on Wednesday. South Korea's Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee said the gove ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-31
South Korea's Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd. said it will file for court receivership after losing the support of its banks, and the country's financial regulator said a rival operator will look to buy Hanj ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-31
