As many had expected, Taiwan's incumbent leader Tsai Ing-wen swept to an easy victory in the island's presidential election last Saturday, securing a second term in office. Tsai, from the ruling Democ ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-14
... sting the island was doing so. The US Treasury, as part of its semi-annual report on foreign exchange policies of major US trading partners, said it was “concerned” by recent analysis from the US Coun ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-14
... ly to the island. Tsai has had a poor relationship with the mainland from the beginning of her presidency because she declined to accept the “one China” position of her predecessor, Ma Ying-jeou of th ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-14
... volcanic island and the area immediately around it – normally a popular tourist spot. Dozens of tremors set residents on edge. Some tourists ignored the dangers and traveled to towns closest to the v ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-13
... emocratic island to accept Beijing’s rule under a “one country, two systems” model, as well as by anti-government protests in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong. “No matter what changes there are to the internal ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-13
Taiwanese re-elected President Tsai Ing-wen by a landslide on Saturday, a stern rebuke to China which has tried both military threats and economic inducements to get the island to accept its rule, and ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-11
The world is watching what choice Taiwan makes as the only Chinese-speaking democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday, as the island's citizens prepare to vote in weekend elections. "To choose ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-10
On Saturday, the people of Taiwan will go to the polls to elect their new president as well as lawmakers. The event will be watched very closely as the outcome will determine the island's social polit ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-10
... Kangaroo Island, a wildlife-rich tourist spot off Australia's southeast coast, were again evacuated on Thursday. A third of the island has already been destroyed by fires. -- Contact us at english@hk ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-09
... me in the island's political realm. That's because while Tsai’s own election prospects look promising, those of her partymates who are running for seats in the Legislative Yuan aren’t as good as hers, ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-08
... （Kangaroo Island）超過三分一面積變成焦土，兩人在大火中喪生。這場火災4個月來死亡人數增至23人 ...全文
... Hong Kong Island Region said a small number of rioters had been seen vandalizing a coffee shop and a bank branch on Hennessy Road in an attempt to hijack what was supposed to be a peaceful public even ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-03
... sold the island 60 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters in 2010. It was not immediately clear if the helicopter in Thursday’s incident was one of them, however. The incident was the latest in a series of av ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-02
... Hong Kong Island on Wednesday afternoon. The radical protesters targeted HSBC after the bank closed an account belonging to Spark Alliance, an online platform that has been raising money in support of ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-02
