... Nigerian towns this month when the militants stormed through them, the newspaper cited human rights groups as saying. Fighters from the Islamist insurgent group that has taken control of much of nort ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
Boko Haram militants have killed dozens of people and burned down homes in a second assault after capturing the northeast Nigerian town of Baga at the weekend. The Islamist insurgents began shooting i ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-09
... ual shantytown amidst the neighboring modern high-rises and malls in southwestern Kowloon. But delve deeper, and you will realize that the streets had served quite an important role in people's lives ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-07
... rn Borneo town of Pangkalan Bun, said there had been no "pings" detected from the black box's emergency locator beacon, possibly because it was buried in the seabed or the muddy water was impeding its ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-07
... or out-of-town cars to four key districts -- Futian, Luohu, Nanshan and Yantian. However, Hong Kong cars are not affected by the policy. -- Contact us at [email protected] EL/AC/RA ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-31
... ories new town plan. Farmers are being forced to sell their land and quit the trade they acquired from their parents. And now, Leung is planning to allocate government funding to subsidize the agricul ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
... d Kennedy Town could only opt for buses, vans or trams if they wanted to take public transport. It used to take around 30 minutes to travel from Kennedy Town to Central. But with MTR, the trip is now ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-29
... f its downtown districts and settled in the suburbs, so the area in which they spend their time has increasingly expanded. Some go to work in Guangzhou in the morning and meet someone for lunch in Fos ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-29
Even before the West Island Line extension of the MRT opens on Dec. 28, Kennedy Town, which the new line will link to Sheung Wan district, has been experiencing a sea change. With their eye on the fre ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-24
Beauties, yes. Beauty queens, no. In banning beauty contests, the town council in the Argentinian town of Chivilcoy said they are sexist and encourage violence against women. The town in the Buenos A ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
No protesters. No umbrellas. Too bad Macau was drizzly when President Xi Jinping arrived Friday noon in the former Portuguese enclave to help it celebrate the 15th anniversary of its return to Chinese ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-19
... en out-of-town choices were extremely limited, pricey and often required long trips across the city. During my earlier years living in Hong Kong, I developed a particular fondness for these Cantonese ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-17
The West Island Line extension of Hong Kong's mass railway system will open on Dec. 28, Ming Pao Daily reported Thursday. The three-kilometer section connects Sheung Wan district with Kennedy Town, wi ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-11
... the Cape Town Convention, meaning there is no territory limitation. Thus, Li does not have to rely too much on governments. Second, aircraft leasing management is much less complicated than operating ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-10
... niversity town of Berkeley, where windows were smashed, stores looted and tear gas fired at protesters, Reuters reported. Protests were planned on Sunday in dozens of cities across the country, includ ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
... hatin New Town Plaza, but the same trip cost him HK$350 when he used the Uber service another day. Taxis in Hong Kong are so cheap that Uber finds no room to compete with its UberX. That's why the gro ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
... ip out of town? At the same time, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was in Beijing with several other principal officials. She told the media her trip to the capital had nothing to do with Oc ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
... on out-of-town assignments. I was lucky to witness the golden age in the mid-1990s when publishing a newspaper was like printing money. That was when the South China Morning Post, where I worked for a ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
... DX in downtown Los Angeles. More than 100 seats buck and dip in close synchronization with the action on the screen. Compressed air blasts from headrests to simulate flying bullets. Fans provide a gen ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
... in a new town development. The company paid a land premium of HK$1,874 per square foot of gross floor area for the plot in LOHAS Park earmarked for the fifth phase of a new town project, the Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-27
