... riven out eight months before. The army and Iranian-backed militia advanced inside Palmyra on Thursday as Islamic State withdrew completely, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Bri ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-03
... en, up to eight candidates could have conceivably contested to reach the threshold of 150 nominations from the 1,200-strong committee. As it turns out, Carrie Lam received 580 nominations, retired jud ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-02
... o take an eight-hour training course by the Vocational Training Council to improve their communication skills and learn how to deal with complaints. A driver could be blacklisted or referred to the in ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-01
... arrested eight people, three of whom were convicted on theft charges. But HK$7 million was still missing as authorities managed to recover only part of the missing currency. - Contact us at english@h ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-01
... years and eight months to investigate and prefer charges. The offense of receiving an advantage, on which the jury failed to agree, was a last-minute addition to the indictment. It is not appropriate ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-28
... over past eight years. Yet, it is true that the expenditure is very significant. Among the spending plans, Xinjiang and Tibet have set fixed-assets investment growth goals of 50 percent and 25 percent ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-27
... ording to eight analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Casino revenue from VIPs rose 13 percent last quarter, and their contribution to Macau’s overall gambling revenue gained about six percentage points fro ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-27
... women and eight Filipino women between 2014 and 2015, Beijing News reports, citing court documents. After the women arrived in Beijing, they were provided accommodation but forbidden to go out until t ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-24
... more than eight times the original estimate of HK$11 billion. Stronger-than-expected land sales income boosted overall revenue to HK$559.5 billion, 12 percent more than the initial estimate. Meanwhile ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-22
... was among eight workers who were cleaning the vessel when the ash collapsed on them. Six of the workers escaped. Another worker who was buried with Cheung survived. One woman worker was taken to hospi ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-22
... ers added eight oil rigs in the week to Feb. 10, bringing the total to 591, the most since October 2015, the Journal reports, citing data from US driller Baker Hughes. The oil price increase was drive ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-22
... n six and eight are identified as better languages learners than adults, as they are more able to readily pick up and internalize what they have learned into their own language system. In other words, ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-17
... omprising eight women and one man, raised some questions during more than nine hours of discussions Thursday on the high-profile case involving the former chief executive. Tsang, who was the CE for se ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-17
... launched eight rounds of counter-cyclical measures to cool the housing market. However, these measures have failed to cap home prices. They have effectively curbed housing demand and thus demand for ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-16
... orce some eight years after negotiations began, the news agency said. European trade unions and protest groups complain the pact will lead to a race to the bottom in labour and environmental standards ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-16
... uring the eight years of the Ma Ying-jeou presidency. Those years saw an unprecedented boom in mainland tourists in Taiwan. So Tsai and her ministers have to find a way to balance the demands of the s ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-16
... set up an eight-member committee comprising local and foreign experts to investigate the attack. The attack happened at about 7:15 p.m. on Friday when a 60-year-old man, surnamed Cheung and said to be ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-14
A 15-year-old secondary student plunged to his death on Sunday in Ma On Shan, the third such case in eight days. The boy is believed to have jumped off the roof of Kam Pong House in Kam Tai Court arou ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-13
... force his eight-year-old daughter and six-year-old son to take it, according to Apple Daily. Fortunately, their cries for help were heard by Tsui’s sister, who came from mainland China to help look af ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-07
