... rsial new-town project in the northeastern New Territories. The proposed new security measures have come under fire from pro-democracy groups. Alex Chow, secretary general of the Hong Kong Federation ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-19
... facturing town halfway between Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The activist, known only as Day, put up three banners with simplified Chinese characters, Apple Daily reported Friday. Day commutes between Hong ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-14
... d Kennedy Town, won’t stop at the first of the three stations, because work on the exits there won’t be completed in time. In recent years, the embattled railway operator has never lacked for construc ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-12
... d Kennedy Town sections. The Sai Ying Pun line will open in the first quarter next year. The three-kilometer line, which cost HK$18.5 billion (US$2.39 billion), will connect Hong Kong's old business d ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-11
... truck the town of L'Aquila, in Italy's central Abruzzo region, at 3:32 a.m. on April 6, 2009, killing more than 300 people, injuring more than 1,500 others and destroying tens of thousands of building ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-11
A suicide bomber dressed as a student killed at least 48 people, most of them students, at a school assembly in the Nigerian town of Potiskum, Reuters reported. A hospital official said 79 others were ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-11
... theastern town of Nong Khai, Reuters reported Thursday. Thai police said Neij will be extradited to Sweden to serve a jail term. Neij told reporters in Bangkok that his arrest was "expected" but did n ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-06
The fugitive mayor of Iguala, a southern Mexico town where 43 college students were apparently abducted in September after he reportedly ordered the police to attack them, has been detained along with ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-05
Schoolkids in a Portuguese shoe-making town are taking compulsory Mandarin lessons to prepare them to compete for business in the Chinese market when they grow up. China is the world’s biggest produce ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-03
... gn in the town of Cape Elizabeth for Democratic candidates, including Mike Michaud, who is trying to unseat LePage in Tuesday's midterm elections. He did not address the Ebola issue in public remarks ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-31
... riters in town. It is often said HKEJ has been the cradle for the top newsmen in town but even so, they are not as loyal as Detective Chan, who oversaw the golden period in HKEJ and witnessed the chan ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-31
Suspected Boko Haram militants seized at least 25 girls in an attack on a remote town in northeastern Nigeria despite ongoing talks on the release of over 200 other female hostages they abducted in Ap ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-24
... he Quebec town of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and was shot dead by police. One of the soldiers later died. Meanwhile, the guard credited with killing Zehaf-Bibeau fought back tears as lawmakers greeted h ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-24
Protesters on Wednesday set fire to a town hall building in Iguala, Mexico, angry over the fate of 43 student-teachers who went missing last month, Reuters reported. Mexican authorities suspect the to ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-23
... he Quebec town of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, about 40 kilometers southeast of Montreal, the report said. The man, identified in the media as 25-year-old Martin Rouleau, had waited in a parking lot outs ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-22
... an border town of Kobani. The SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks jihadist social media accounts, drew attention to the video Tuesday, according to the Washington Post. At one point, it appears to s ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-22
Turkey said it will allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to reinforce fellow Kurds in the Syrian border town of Kobani, while the United States air-dropped arms to help the Kurds resist an Islamic State onsla ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-21
You better watch out. You better not cry. Better not pout. I'm telling you why. The Umbrella IPO is coming to town. Jicheng Umbrella Holdings, China's top umbrella exporter, has just filed for an ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-17
... n Kurdish town of Kobani over Monday and Tuesday and appeared to have slowed militants' advances in the area, the US military was quoted as saying. War on the militants in Syria is threatening to unra ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-15
... nd out of town tourists. As a longtime observer of this project, I have to say that this time it looks like the park may actually be built. That's because the official green light from the NDRC is usu ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-14
