French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was not speaking metaphorically when he said that France is at war with radical Islam. There is, indeed, a full-fledged war underway, and the heinous terrorist attac ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
... effort by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his conservative government to revive patriotism at home and enhance Japan’s image overseas by toning down negative depictions of its wartime activities, the ne ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s request for a visit to China, the Foreign Ministry spokesperson replied with the name of a Chinese movie "Feicheng Wurao" (if not sincere, do not disturb). This w ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-14
... Tawadkar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sports and youth affairs minister, told reporters. "We will have centers for them, like Alcoholics Anonymous centers.” He said the government will “train them ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-14
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government approved a record US$42 billion military budget on Wednesday, Reuters reported. Outlays are rising for a third year to counter China's rising military m ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-14
... with the prime minister. It would reflect the warming economic relations between China and Britain even though political tensions persist, the report said. Swire said he'd spoken to the ambassador ab ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-14
A Singapore court has ordered a blogger to pay S$29,000 ($21,700) to Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as legal costs after Lee won a defamation case against him late last year, Reuters reporte ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-13
... g British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan's King Abdullah II, joined the start ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
... product. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to boost its contribution to 25 to 30 percent of the GDP to help create a million jobs a month in a country with a population of 1.3 billion, the newspaper ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
... purred by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vow to provide a house to every Indian family by 2022. "Scale and growth of businesses like [online retailer] Flipkart are a proxy that consumers in India are ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
... utlets in prime districts such as Tsim Sha Tsui and Central. The stores include two Laneige and five Sulwhasoo shops. Soaring sales have supported the company’s aggressive expansion. Amore Pacific Hon ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-09
... percent. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s government has failed, and now, owing to the parliament’s inability to choose a new Greek president, an early general election will be held on Jan. 25. The l ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-09
... , Chadian Prime Minister Kalzeubet Pahimi said on Wednesday. The Sunni jihadist group has been waging an insurgency to establish an Islamic state for more than five years. -- Contact us at english@hke ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-09
... rents in prime retail locations and increasing staff costs ate into earnings. To make its privatization case more appealing, Ports Design pointed out that it had to keep spending to increase the bran ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-08
... ys be the prime concern when it comes to power supply. The high standards must not be compromised even if the government introduces a certain degree of competition to the local electricity market in t ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-08
... in, where Prime Minister David Cameron’s government has cut the structural budget deficit from 8.4 percent of potential GDP in 2010 to 4.1 percent in 2014, while the unemployment rate has fallen from ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-06
... those in prime locations. Second, if such a plan could be carried out, its effect on the property market would only be seen several years later. Leung would probably have no incentive to do it at a ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-05
... . Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday held an emergency consultation with senior ministers to discuss Abbas' move. "We expect the ICC to summarily dismiss the Palestinian Authority's ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
... the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to discuss with Chinese leaders the Daya Bay nuclear project the same morning when the Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed in 1984, Apple Daily reporte ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-31
Britain considered rearming itself at a cost of up to £200 million (US$311.2 million) after learning the Soviet Union was developing a new poison gas capable of overwhelming NATO forces. Then Prime Mi ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-31
