A high-ranking Chinese official, in charge of promoting the learning of Chinese language overseas, has sought to defend the program from charges that it is being used to stifle academic freedom in uni ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
The head of India's most powerful Hindu group vowed to press ahead with a campaign to convert Muslims and Christians to Hinduism, Reuters reported. Debate over the sensitive issue has stalled parliame ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
Traditional Chinese medicine company Eu Yan Sang aired its latest TV commercial Monday night, triggering instant controversy. Animal lovers have complained that the ad demonizes mongrels, and demanded ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-17
The families of nine people killed in a mass shooting in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, two years ago sued the maker of the gun used in the attack, saying the weapon should not have bee ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-16
Hong Kong people need "re-enlightenment" on the one "one country, two systems" principle, a mainland official said, also suggesting that the territory's citizens need to gain more clarity on the Basic ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-15
The US Senate passed a US$1.1 trillion spending bill that removes the threat of a government shutdown. The Senate's 56-40 vote Saturday sends the bill to President Barack Obama, who is expected to si ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-15
There's an ongoing debate among men about open collars: When you're not wearing a tie, is it better to have one button undone, or two? On a busy day in the office, your boss and colleagues probaby wou ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-12
Some CIA officers used "abhorrent" methods on detainees, the agency's head admits. US Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan said Thursday it was "unknowable" whether the harsh interrogatio ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-12
Interrogation tactics by United States intelligence authorities on terror suspects were ineffective and amounted to torture in some cases, a senate investigation has concluded. The report reignited an ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-10
The ten-week-old Occupy campaign continues to be the main taking point in the student community in Hong Kong, but just across the border in Shenzhen there is an entirely different thing that is occupy ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
Authorities were bracing for a fifth day of nationwide protests against police violence on Sunday after a New York grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer who put an unarmed black man ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
With the students softening their rhetoric and even indicating that they could terminate the weeks-long street occupation, will the government make any conciliatory gesture in return? This is the t ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-05
Was anyone really surprised that the talks held in October between the representatives of the Hong Kong government and the student leaders of the protest movement have ended in an impasse? There was m ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-05
New York is bracing for further unrest after a grand jury decided not to charge a white police officer who choked an unarmed black man to death. The decision sparked outrage and protests on Wednesday ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-04
China has broken its agreement with Britain to let Hong Kong govern its own borders for at least 50 years, the Guardian quoted senior members of Parliament as saying Tuesday. In an emergency debate in ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
Beijing has scuttled plans by a group of British members of Parliament to visit Hong Kong. Richard Ottoway, who chairs the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, accused the Chinese authorities of a ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
Ng Hong-Mun, a former Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress, has called for the revival of plans to introduce national education to schools, am730 reported Friday. He said the subject cou ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-28
More than 400 people have been arrested in Ferguson, Missouri, and around the United States during protests after a white policeman was cleared in the killing of an unarmed black teenager, Reuters rep ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-27
British MPs have cancelled a visit to Shanghai after China denied a visa to one of them who led a debate in a parliamentary hall on the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, The Guardian reported Tuesd ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-25
Liberal Studies, which is one of the core academic subjects in the new senior secondary curriculum in Hong Kong, continues to provoke debate in the education fraternity, with many arguing that it is a ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-24
