German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the European Union may have to consider treaty changes if that is what it takes to keep Britain in the EU. She is confident that conditions can be created for Brit ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-05
The US Senate on Tuesday passed legislation reforming a government surveillance program that collected millions of Americans' telephone records, Reuters reported. The bill will now go to the White Hou ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-03
... Island Villa are available for below HK$3 million, with a unit going for as low as HK$2.25 million, according to Apple Daily. That would be a good defense for Lau Ming-wai, son of tycoon Joseph Lau L ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-26
... tart by selling accessories like earphones. But this addition of three major western European markets hints that Xiaomi is moving ahead aggressively with its global expansion and could even start sell ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-20
A contest is on among mainland A-list movie stars Tang Wei, Zhao Wei, Fan Bingbing and Li Bingbing and even Hong Kong’s Isabella Leong Lok-si to play China's national tennis icon in the upcoming movie ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-18
A Mother's Day prank on Cambodian television backfired, the producers being accused on social media of cruelty to a teenage girl. Autumn Allen, 13, an American singer living in Cambodia, had just perf ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-14
... ng Kong following the launch last year of a landmark Hong Kong-Shanghai bourse link. As someone living in China who has daily contact with local investors, I can personally say that people here regula ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-12
... grass really greener on the other side? To start with, there's the language situation. Singapore's multicultural mix naturally presents an obstacle, unless one's goal is to learn or raise children na ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-12
... in the fall. This year could see a continuation of that pattern, with reports that the medical device units of global conglomerates Siemens, General Electric and Philips are all being probed over whe ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
As top lieutenants grovel for support as they push a controversial political reform package, Hong Kong's embattled chief executive, ironically, is in Boston, home of an iconic protest that escalated i ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
Yale University graduate Noelle Hancock, 31, had a US$$95,000 job as a journalist in New York City. Four years ago, inspired by a tropical screensaver and hungry for a vacation, she broke the lease o ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... US$100 million check but wouldn't allow pictures of it, AP reported. It was just a down payment on his night's takings, which could total more than US$200 million by the time pay-per-view sales are t ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
At the pace technology is developing, even the most tech-savvy of consumers will find it hard to predict the next big thing in mobile devices. First there were smartphones, then smart watches. But eve ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-30
... or his brilliant putting closed with a two-under-par 70 to match Woods' tournament record low of 18-under 270 for 72 holes, Reuters reported. Woods achieved the mark when he clinched his maiden major ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-13
... aomi is calling the decision to sell its phones through traditional retail stores a tactical move, in a nod to the less advanced state of India's internet compared to that in its home market. While th ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-09
Hong Kong tourism officials reacted to some scary headlines this past week by deciding to throw money at the problem. When Easter rolled around with some dire numbers -- a 20 percent fall in mainland ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-08
Venezuelan President President Nicolas Maduro is challenging Barack Obama over the characterization of his country as a threat to the United States. "We demand, via all global diplomatic channels, tha ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-13
... hieve a full agreement by June 30. So far, those talks have focused on separate US and European Union sanctions on Iran's energy and financial sectors, which Tehran desperately wants removed. The sanc ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-13
Leaders of the world's wireless industry agree their next big idea is 5G, the fifth generation of networks they expect to have up and running by 2020, Reuters reported. But first they'll have to decid ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
With all due respect to Forbes, the foremost authority in ranking the world's richest, we are not sure if we can agree with its selection of the most powerful women in business. The business magazine, ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-27
