... 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
Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher promised to "make the strongest possible representations to the Chinese government” for any breach of an international agreement on the Hong Kong handov ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
... rejected Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' nominee for president on Monday, automatically triggering an election which is to be held on Jan. 25. The latest developments revived questions about Greece's ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
... nation,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said. About 1.7 trillion yen will be spent on public works in areas damaged by natural disasters and to improve disaster preparedness, with 600 billion yen for revi ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-29
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won reelection to parliament on Wednesday, moving him into position to form a new cabinet that includes a hawkish defense chief. Abe vowed to press ahead with his co ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-24
... high that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was elected in May, would upgrade the country's basic health infrastructure and make medical services more affordable for the poor. The United Nations estim ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-24
... stralia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott warned that there had been heightened "terror chatter" since a lone gunman took 17 people hostage inside a cafe in central Sydney last week. "We don't know when an ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-24
... Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of parliament, mailing obscene and indecent material, committing an indignity to a body, and publishing obscene materials. He was impassive in ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-24
... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s controversial visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in December last year evoked strong protests from China and South Korea, which suffered greatly from Japan's aggression ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
... asons why Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved the parliament in November was to ensure enough support for the gambling bill. The industry is expected to generate US$40 billion in annual revenues. Sato ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
... hreatened Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic reform agenda. Mohan Bhagwat of the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, which is the ideological wing of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
... ort said. Prime Minister Tony Abbott called the events in Cairns "heartbreaking" and acknowledged the "trying days" for Australia. As services and memorials continued for the victims of the Sydney sie ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov blamed the nation's current woes, amid the collapse of the ruble, on economic mismanagement and urged President Vladimir Putin to give up his post by hol ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-18
... he said. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif used similarly strong words. "We will take revenge for each and every drop of our children's blood that was spilt today," he was quoted as saying. Pakistani teena ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-17
