... has been blocked for more than two years over disagreements between China and the US, and the breakthrough was as welcome as it was surprising. The ITA breakthrough is doubly helpful, because China’s ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-17
... venues to block extradition, including an appeal for political asylum. Their lawyers argue that the Chinese legal system uses torture to extract confessions, sentences many to death and is under polit ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-17
... vowed to block funding approval for contentious projects in a protest against Beijing’s proposed arrangements for the 2017 chief executive election. Legislative Councilor Sin Chung-kai from the Democ ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-13
... sought to block access to its English-language and Chinese-language websites for people inside China over the past two years after it published news reports on the wealth of the country's political el ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-13
... 2014, to "block the last route of retreat" for corrupt officials, Xinhua said. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-12
Apple Inc must face a US federal lawsuit over the blocking of text messages to iPhone users who switch to Android-based smartphones. US District Judge Lucy Koh ordered Apple to face plaintiff Adrienne ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-12
Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB) reiterated its demand for a full investigation into a recent attack on its journalists and distanced itself from a move by a company official to block an online petiti ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-30
It would be a big loss to China if Beijing were to block the broadcast of the Golden Horse Film Festival awards, Taiwan’s Minister of Culture Lung Ying-tai said. She said it is not Taiwan’s wish to s ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-30
... ntinue to block the main access to Hong Kong's business and financial district, the sources were quoted as saying. Xu Lin, director of the Finance Department at the National Development and Reform Com ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-28
... apartment block in Taipei to protest unaffordable housing prices. Will this be the subject of the next protest movement in Hong Kong? The "sleep-out" on Renai Road on Oct. 4 to 5 was launched by the H ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-27
... action to block transport and occupy business streets, Koo said "no dictatorship on earth and tyrants in history had ever undertaken such tyranny of evil and betrayed democracy," according to the repo ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-24
A Legislative Council (LegCo) meeting in Hong Kong had to be adjourned Thursday due to lack of a quorum, with some pan-democrat lawmakers staying away as they wanted to block the setting up of a new I ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-23
... the road blockade. As pro-democracy occupation continues in Mong Kong, Admiralty and Causeway Bay, some protesters suggested in social media that the battlefront could be extended to the Hong Kong In ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-23
... esters to block the streets. Hundreds of police officers, some in helmets and shields, were on the scene to separate the demonstrators and taxi drivers, who came along with lawyer and court bailiffs. ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-22
... the road block at the intersection of Argyle Street and Nathan Road were spreading the word that they would re-occupy the area at 12:00 a.m. At 12:06, some protesters started grabbing the iron fences ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-20
... vities to block traffic, the report said, citing police spokesman Kong Man-keung. He warned the protesters that they are risking arrest if they break the law. The warning came after snap gatherings em ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-17
... ng not to block portions of the streets reserved for emergency services, the officer said. All MTR exits in the area are now open, the report said. -- Contact us at [email protected] TL/AC/CG ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-17
... rotesters blocked entrances to the building, preventing Apple Daily from delivering newspapers on Sunday and Monday and part of Tuesday. On Wednesday, they vowed to step up their action if Apple made ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-15
... the road blocks early Tuesday morning, RTHK reported Tuesday. They used chainsaws and sledgehammers to remove the various items put up by the protesters to block the streets. In Admiralty, around 300 ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-14
... ers would block all roads and passageways that CY Leung may use to enter the government headquarters on Thursday. “Leung is welcome to come and have a chat with members of the public anytime,” HKFS se ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-14
