China and the European Union will seek on Friday to save an international pact against climate change that US President Donald Trump appears to be set to pull out of. As China emerges as Europe's unli ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-01
The United States might ban laptops from aircraft cabins on all flights into and out of the country as part of a ramped-up effort to protect against potential security threats, US Homeland Security Se ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-29
The United States and China will expand trade in beef and chicken and increase access for financial firms, as part of a plan to reduce the massive US trade deficit with Beijing, US Commerce Secretary ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-12
Despite fierce opposition from NATO ally Turkey, US President Donald Trump has approved supplying arms to Kurdish YPG fighters to support an operation to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic S ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-10
You are not Jack Ma if you cannot impress your audience with some golden quotes that challenge your orthodox thinking. At an entrepreneurship conference in Zhengzhou, the Alibaba chairman made a point ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-25
... Asia at full speed in response to the escalating North Korean nuclear aggression. It also said two more aircraft carriers, the USS Ronald Reagan and Nimitz, had also set off toward the region to stren ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-24
... h shop, called Building 8, to conduct long-term work that might lead to hardware products, Reuters reports. In charge of the unit is Regina Dugan, who led a similar group at Alphabet Inc.'s Google and ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-20
North Korea will launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike if it deems the United States is preparing to attack, a senior official told the BBC. "If the US is planning a military attack against us, we will ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-18
... , which killed at least 70 people, many of them children, "crosses many, many lines", an allusion to his predecessor Barack Obama's threat to topple Assad with air strikes if he used such weapons. "I ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-06
Families and rescuers searched desperately through mud-plastered rubble for victims of flooding and landslides in Colombia that have killed at least 210 people, injured hundreds and devastated entire ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-03
... wn an unwillingness to listen to others' opinions. Lam has never apologized to the public or promised to conduct reviews on controversial decisions during her time as a senior civil servant in the Le ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-28
... ed HK$2 million on renovating his 40,000 square foot official residence in Shouson Hill. It was Apple Daily that broke the news again – the same newspaper that has brought us other juicy, if unflatter ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-27
President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States would be "tweaking" its trade relationship with Canada, stopping short of calling for a major realignment in a development likely to please visi ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-14
... e said he'll try to achieve the goal through more-efficient land use and redevelopment of old public housing estates. While the pledge was welcomed by many people, his former boss Leung feels it is n ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-08
She is known as an Iron Lady and a nanny to all male secretaries but is probably a bad housewife. Former chief secretary-turned-CE hopeful Carrie Lam has admitted that she needs to learn a few things ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-23
On Sunday, nearly 250,000 qualified voters will go to polling stations to pick their representatives for a 1,200-member-strong committee that will ultimately choose Hong Kong's next leader in 2017. Th ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-08
The White House has sought to reassure China after President-elect Donald Trump's phone call with Taiwan's leader last week, which the Obama administration warned could undermine progress in relations ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-06
Hong Kong builder Chun Wo Property Development is trying to set a new standard for "coziness" in modern living. It seeks to answer the question: What is the smallest amount of space that could still b ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-01
In China, it is hard to miss red cans of herbal drinks almost anywhere you go nowadays. The cans all look alike, but if you take a closer look you'll discover that there are actually two brands -- Won ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
If you are a fan of the late pop singer Michael Jackson, you'll remember his iconic 45-degree lean in the video for the hit song 'Smooth Criminal'. Well, a street sign in Hong Kong's Yuen Long distri ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-25
