... ears on a pilot scheme to support Hong Kong designers participating in overseas fashion events and to help design graduates gain opportunities for internships and further studies, Tsang said. Meanwhil ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-26
... part in a pilot scheme. Service would be voluntary and there would be no conscription in the future, according to DAB. This isn't new. Taiwan and Korea, for instance, require young people of a certain ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
... aircraft pilots to obtain special pilot certificates, stay away from bystanders and fly only during the day, Reuters reported. Flying speed would be limited to 100 miles per hour (160 kph) and an al ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-17
... l airline pilot community as well as ordinary aviation enthusiasts. Part of the reason is that landing or taking off at Kai Tak was considered to be quite dangerous amid a sea of high-rises, requiring ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-13
... ed by the pilot scheme are temporary. A long-term arrangement is necessary to truly break the barriers between the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock markets, or else the financial power of the Greater Chin ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-13
A pilot and his wife navigated and landed a plane using Apple iPads after the aircraft's electrical systems failed, the International Business Times reported. They used information from the tablets to ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-10
... hat a LAN pilot had spotted something he said was the footballers' plane in another location -- near the city of Linares, AFP noted. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-10
Beijing is piloting a points system that opens the door for rural migrants to gain local residency status, along with greater access to public services and social welfare. The experiment involving the ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-10
Taiwanese airline TransAsia Airways is cancelling 90 flights so that its pilots can attend training after one of its planes, an ATR 72-600, crashed on Wednesday. The decision came after civil aviation ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-09
Jordan's King Abdullah pledged a "relentless" war against Islamic State after a video from the militants showed a captured Jordanian air force pilot being burned alive in a cage, Reuters reported. Jor ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-05
... ether the pilot was aiming for the river. A video clip shows a van skidding to a halt on the damaged overpass after barely missing the plane's wing, with small pieces of the aircraft scattered along t ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-05
... picked to pilot a government initiative aimed at letting market forces, rather than power transmission companies, determine what end-users pay for electricity. Under the pilot scheme, the grid company ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-04
Jordan is vowing an "earth-shaking response" after Islamist militants released a video on Tuesday appearing to show a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage. A Jordanian official said t ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-04
... . Another pilot research initiative — "High Capacity Back-up Power Storage System development" —designated by the NEA has also passed the on-load test with satisfactory results, the safety panel said. ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-02
... said its pilot kept a safe distance. It also demanded the US stop surveillance flights near its coastline. US officials remain hopeful a deal will be possible this year but said reaching an agreement ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-29
... r Trainer Pilot Program in 2013. The scheme — a collaboration between the Singapore Workforce Development Agency and the National Environment Agency -- allows prospective hawkers to be apprentices of ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-21
... signed to pilot national reforms, including the reform of foreign investment regulations. The proposed law also highlights the concept of the "actual controllers” of a company. Whether a firm is a for ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-21
... East as a pilot area to study the feasibility of building a Smart City; 3. Setting up a HK$300 million Youth Development Fund to encourage entrepreneurship; 4. Enhancing education on science and techn ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-20
... posals, a pilot scheme to attract the second generation of overseas Hongkongers to return to the territory is pointless. As people have a lot of grievances and frustration permeates every corner of ou ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-19
... Kong. The pilot scheme is among several new measures the government is taking to attract talent to the city after it suspended the capital investment entrant scheme, which has been blamed for skyrocke ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
