Silicon Valley baron Elon Musk called rival billionaire Mark Zuckerberg naive, escalating a tech wizard war of words over whether robots will become smart enough to kill their human creators, Reuters ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-26
Legco Finance Committee chairman Chan Kin-por has floated new suggestions to restrict filibustering by fellow lawmakers over the funding approval process. The new measures include restricting lawmaker ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-25
Riding a surge in her popularity ratings, Chief Executive Carrie Lam hopes to win the public opinion war over the co-location arrangement for the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link. The SA ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-13
Carrie Lam is keeping a low profile on the political front as she prepares her government's agenda with just two weeks left before she takes office. Lam's focus is on tax reform, technology developmen ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-15
A man who had posted angry messages against President Donald Trump and other Republicans on social media opened fire on Republican lawmakers practising for a charity baseball game on Wednesday, woundi ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-15
The United States appears poised to heighten scrutiny of Chinese investment in Silicon Valley to better shield sensitive technologies seen as vital to US national security, Reuters reports, citing cur ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-14
An 80-year-old man who killed his paralyzed wife in Shau Kei Wan did it to spare her from further suffering, his younger brother said. He said the condition of his sister-in-law had deteriorated when ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-08
Do not blame only mainlanders for creating the biggest housing bubble in Hong Kong in 20 years. It's time to look more closely at the problems within our own society and how we locals may have actuall ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-08
Most Hong Kong people are ethnic Chinese. They are are not ashamed to be Chinese but it doesn't mean they recognize their national identity -- that of being citizens of the People's Republic of China. ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-07
When British Prime Minister Theresa May announced in mid-April a snap general election for June 8, which is tomorrow, she must have felt very confident that a Tory landslide would be a slam dunk, give ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-07
Recently the Cortes Generales, or the Spanish parliament, passed a non-binding resolution urging the government to exhume the remains of the former dictator from the Valley of the Fallen for transfer ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-05
Donald Trump has thrown a hand grenade into the global economic architecture that was so painstakingly constructed in the years after the end of World War II. The attempted destruction of this rules-b ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-05
Regional officials are focused on terrorism as global defense chiefs debate what “America First” and China’s rise mean for Asia’s future, Bloomberg reports. Southeast Asian defense officials who atten ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-05
Japan's lower house of parliament on Friday approved a bill that would allow Emperor Akihito to step down, the first such abdication in nearly two centuries, Reuters reports. Akihito, 83, who has had ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-02
Emmanuel Macron’s election to the French presidency provides the European Union with an opportunity to move past the internal conflicts that have hastened its disintegration. Rather than standing excl ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
It is mid-morning in Paddington, one of London’s main rail stations, and the platforms are crowded with people. Several men in black uniforms and black hats stand out – policemen carrying machine guns ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-29
A Chinese student has apologized for a speech she gave in the United States, saying her remarks about the "great freedom" she experienced in America should not be construed as belittling China. In a W ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-23
Bitcoin traded above US$2,200 on Monday, notching year-to-date gain of more than 130 percent, as a new wave of speculative investment drove up the crypto-currency, the Wall Street Journal reports. Ris ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-23
