Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor's announcement that the government is looking at building artificial islands to create new land for housing has been greeted with skepticism by some lawmaker ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-11
... an resort island of Bali on Thursday. “And there would also be lots of innocent bystanders.” China and the United States have slapped tit-for-tat tariffs over the past few months, rattling financial m ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-11
... se of the island city-state’s meteoric rise, one need only compare the glittering metropolis depicted in “Crazy Rich Asians” with the hut-filled fishing village depicted in the 1940 classic comedy, “R ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-10
Recently I made a trip to Papua New Guinea, the remote southwestern Pacific island country that is due to host the 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November. Before I set out fo ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
... an resort island of Bali where the IMF and World Bank annual meetings are getting underway, show that a burst of strong growth, fueled partly by US tax cuts and rising demand for imports, was starting ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
... Hong Kong Island South, where there are more beaches and sewage facilities, than elsewhere in the territory. The chemicals were found to have caused abnormalities and deaths in the offspring of zebraf ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-05
... over the island by any means possible, including military force. They wish to reduce their dependence, economic and otherwise, on the mainland. This is the view of many in the ruling Democratic Progr ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
... Sulawesi island last Friday stood at 1,234, many killed by tsunami waves triggered by the quake. But officials fear the toll could soar, as most of the confirmed dead have come from Palu, a small cit ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
Indonesia scrambled to get help into Sulawesi island, which was hit by an earthquake and tsunami on Friday, as survivors streamed away from their ruined homes and accounts of devastation filtered out ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
... the small island about 9.30 a.m. local time (7:30 a.m. Friday in Hong Kong), Emilio said. The passengers and crew were taken to hospital, where eight remained, four in a serious condition with bone fr ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
... elf-ruled island of Taiwan has formal relations with 16 other countries, many of them small, less developed nations in Central America and the Pacific. Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a renegade prov ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-27
... uth Asian island nation, Abdulla Yameen, by a substantial margin. As the pro-China Yameen was voted out of office and the pro-India Solih is set to become the new president, it has sparked speculation ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-27
... Hong Kong Island were found to have been damaged in the wake of Typhoon Mangkhut. People should avoid recreational activities, angling or seawater abstraction in potentially affected beaches as the se ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-21
