... 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
... treet and Ice House Street in Central where the race took place, a Hong Kong Economic Journal columnist noted Monday. A team from Pizza Hut beat others to win the race this year. Maxim's Caterers, Hon ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-20
... lats like ice-cream. Three new residential projects in Ma On Shan, Tseung Kwan O and North Point with a combined 456 units were sold out, although there were only six second-hand property transactions ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-06
... tip of an iceberg. People in 166 countries, from Argentina to Australia, participated in more than 2,800 events and rallies. Two million activists demanded through an online petition that governments ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-03
... offers a nice platform for charitable causes. Of course, Hong Kong's leading marathon event is the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, which the British bank has been sponsoring for the past 17 yea ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-22
... ke in the Ice Bucket Challenge. And for the second generation of tycoons, it's best to keep in mind Ronnie Chan's advice: "People who don't know how to make money cannot be involved in giving it away. ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-16
