The Ebola virus, which has killed over 1,400 people across four countries in West Africa, is expected to spread farther in the coming months, according to two volunteers from the Hong Kong Red Cross w ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-27
... onals and western governments that they are being unfairly targeted by Beijing for such probes. That's not quite the case, according to the SAIC. In newly published remarks from a rare press conferenc ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-27
Delays in the South Island Line (East) and the West Island Line rail works could add about 9.8 percent to MTR Corporation's (00066.HK) project costs, sending the combined amount to HK$33.7 billion (US ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-26
... pments at West Kowloon. The estate, meanwhile, is said to face difficulties in getting staff to come and work at the remote location, resulting in high costs to source qualified security guards. The o ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-25
... g home in west London where he lived with his wife Sheila Sim, 92, whom he married in 1945. Born in 1923 in Cambridge, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1940, which was th ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-25
... le of the West African country. “Both of us are in good physical and mental conditions,” Cheung Yee-lai, a clinical psychologist, was quoted as saying. Yeung Pui-shan, a public health doctor, urged gl ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-22
... Army and West Africa. The workers were needed because of the devastating human cost of the war that left Britain and France short of manpower. The British recruited 94,000 men for the CLC and France ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-22
... onth from West Africa where many people died of Ebola recently, Sing Tao Daily said. The Africans mostly live in areas near Xiaobei Road, Xia Tang West Road, Kuangquan sub-district and Dengfeng sub-d ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-21
... Line and West Rail. Leong said MTR will work closely with the government to decide how the extra cost of a planned high-speed railway should be shared. The project, which has been hounded by delays, ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-19
The Ebola outbreak in Liberia has affected the operations of Chinese companies in the West African country, but some 1,500 Chinese workers in the country remain safe and the risk is still controllable ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-18
Liberia has quarantined remote villages affected by the Ebola epidemic in a bid to control the virus spreading through West Africa, Reuters reported on Sunday. The situation in these abandoned village ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-18
... Kong and West Africa, making it difficult for local immigration staff to recognize travelers coming from affected regions, Secretary for Food and Health Ko Wing-man said during his visit to Beijing. ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-15
Russia's large oil company has asked the government for as much as 1.5 trillion rubles (US$42 billion) in support as western sanctions against Moscow take their toll. The Russian government will cons ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-15
Iraq's embattled prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, is stepping down after eight years in office under pressure from his own party and the West amid mounting sectarian strife in his country. Maliki will ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-15
... ff in the West African nation. Their return date has not been confirmed by the Red Cross. Hong Kong’s Department of Health has been in touch with the Red Cross. It is known that both of the experts ha ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-14
... people in West Africa, has lent an unprecedented urgency to efforts to develop vaccines and treatments, which for years had largely languished, the report said. Only one treatment, made by Tekmira Pha ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-14
... d in some Western countries, will ensure that no body parts are exposed during any emergency. Following the news, medical workers in the city are also seeking enhanced protective attire and equipment, ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-13
... tbreak in West Africa has so far killed 1,013 people, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. -- Contact us at [email protected] RA/RC ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-13
... ca on the west coast of Portugal, reports said. The parents may have crossed a safety barrier in order to reach the cliff edge, according to the Daily Mail. Portuguese authorities are investigating th ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-12
... read from west Africa, the epicenter of the epidemic, to other parts of the world. The warning came as scientists and doctors in the United States, Canada and Hong Kong have isolated and tested travel ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-11
