If you think China’s pledge to respect the status quo in Hong Kong for 50 years sounds like a faint echo from a distant galaxy, there's one place that can serve as a potent metaphor for the profound c ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
Desperate times, desperate deal. We are talking not about Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation but the record-breaking HK$1.5 billion (US$190 million) that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. chairman Jack Ma Yu ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-13
Guangdong province has unveiled the concept of “six bay areas and one peninsula”, which includes 14 coastal cities, in its latest blueprint for experimental marine economic zones. The bay area of the ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-08
Egypt received a show of international support on Thursday as it inaugurated a major extension of the Suez Canal, Reuters reported. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he hopes the New Suez Canal will ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-07
A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people in an attack on a mosque used by members of a local security force in southwest Saudi Arabia on Thursday, Reuters reported, citing the interior ministry. A s ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-07
North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea on Monday as the United States and South Korea kicked off eight weeks of joint military drills. The nuclear-armed North Korean People's Army (KP ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
In his 1996 book "Hong Kong: Asia's Network City", economic historian Takeshi Hamashita had identified eight hinterlands for Hong Kong, ranging from Northeast Asia to Southeast Asia. They are: 1. The ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
Winter has come to parts of Canada and the US Midwest with a vengeance. Frigid air pushed in by a powerful storm that hit Alaska with hurricane-force winds drove temperatures down by up to 22 degrees ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-12
Nobody knows yet what it will look like, not even George Lucas himself, but judging by the choice of the architects who will design his museum in Chicago, it's likely to be as syfy-ey as any of his St ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-29
By Bryan Wong and Peter So China's attempt to establish the East Sea Air Defense Identification Zone has touched nerves in the United States and Japan. The concerns prompted Japanese Prime Minister Sh ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-19
