Prime Minister David Cameron is backing Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement after more than two weeks of demonstrations over Chinese restrictions on how the former British colony chooses its next leade ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-16
... ll in the prime of their lives, the privileges that Hong Kong has largely enjoyed under ‘one country, two systems’ will be subsumed into ‘one country, one system’," he said. “And like it or not, from ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-13
... hina. Its prime offshore RMB center status will remain, even if other centers emerge. Meanwhile, Shanghai has developed as a domestic financial center, acting as a bridge for domestic capital allocati ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-09
China has been quick to jump on comments by a retired aide to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, purporting to belittle the ongoing democracy protest in Hong Kong, The Telegraph reported ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-07
“I’m a very modest man,” Narendra Modi, who as a young man sold tea by the railroad but who became India’s prime minister in May, told 18,500 cheering fans in New York’s Madison Square Garden last wee ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-07
... Peng, the Prime Minister, saw them as "counter-revolutionaries" who needed to be removed at once. Unknown to the students themselves, they became a pawn in a bitter power struggle, which ended into th ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-06
British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was deeply concerned about recent clashes in Hong Kong between riot police and thousands of pro-democracy protesters but stopped short of condemning the us ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-01
... of former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, an estimated 13,000 voters massed for a glimpse of Doi,” the report also said. In addition to Doi’s popularity, the opposition parties took advantage of a co ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-30
... tic ties. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made it a top foreign-policy priority, vowing to resolve the issue during his tenure. "We see the abduction issue as a top-priority agenda. We expect a detailed ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-30
... a, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said yesterday. The fighting over Kobani continued yesterday, as Islamic State militants fired rockets into the city center, killing at least three people, accord ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-30
New York City police on Thursday increased their presence on subways and streets after the Iraqi prime minister warned of a potential threat to transit systems from Islamist militants, Reuters reporte ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-26
... he lowest prime office yields of just 2.9 percent among the 15 cities surveyed after a surge in property prices in previous years. Office rents are expected to rise 10 percent in the next five years a ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-25
It was, many agree, the perfect image -- simple, hilarious, to the point, and for the target of the ridicule, downright insulting. Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott did not attend the one-day su ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-25
Japan is mainly responsible for its deteriorating relationship with China and it should say so, Ming Pao Daily reported Wednesday, citing former prime minister Yukio Hatoyama. Hatoyama blamed the gove ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-24
... orted. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked on, scientists at mission control in Bangalore announced that the Mangalyaan orbiter had entered Mars orbit after a 10-month voyage from Earth, the report ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-24
... e. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also skipping the event, which prompted the Washington Post to wonder out load: "In empirical terms, it's hard to think of two more important leaders in the w ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
... installed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BBC Hindi reported. The station called the error grave but the sacking received a mix reaction from Indian newscasters. While Doordarshan broadcaster Shammi Na ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-22
The question of Scottish independence has been settled for a generation, and there can be "no disputes, no re-runs" on the ballot, British Prime Minister David Cameron said after Scots voted to keep a ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-19
... t, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for an early settlement on the border dispute, noting that the "true potential of our relations" would be realized when there is "peace in our relations a ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-19
... ustralian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the plot was orchestrated by Islamic State commanders in the Middle East and called for "demonstration beheadings". "Quite direct exhortations were coming fro ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-19
