North Korea declared on Sunday that it can test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at any time, saying a hostile US policy is to blame for the nation's arms development. "The ICBM wil ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-09
Donald Trump's "clear warning" to North Korea shows that the US President-elect is aware of the urgency of the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear program, South Korea said on Tuesday. A foreign min ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-04
A Syrian migrant who arrived in Germany two years ago has been arrested on suspicion of seeking funds from Islamic State to drive truck bombs into a crowd, according to German state prosecutors. The a ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-03
Australian police said on Friday they have foiled an Islamic State-inspired terrorist plot to bomb prominent sites in Melbourne on Christmas Day. Six men and a woman, all in their 20s, were arrested i ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-23
Monte dei Paschi di Siena said its plan to raise on the market 5 billion euros (US$5.2 billion) in capital by the end of the year had failed, paving the way for a state bailout of Italy's third-larges ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-23
Taiwan accused China of using Sao Tome and Principe's financial woes to push its "one China" policy after the small West African state ended ties with the self-ruled island. Taiwan Foreign Minister Da ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-21
The Dow and Nasdaq Composite rose to record highs in a rally fueled by optimism about US President-elect Donald Trump's policies. The Dow Jones industrial average on Tuesday ended just 25 points shy o ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-21
Top executives of New York-based hedge fund manager Platinum Partners were arrested and charged with running a US$1 billion fraud. Federal prosecutors said the case was "like a Ponzi scheme" as its la ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-20
A truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on Monday evening, killing nine people and injuring up to 50 others, police said, in what appeared to be one of the deadliest attacks i ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-20
From the panel, the row of men and women stared at Harold. They watched, listened and watched some more. As usual, Harold was impeccably dressed in a suit and tie. When he was younger he had dreams of ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-19
Apple will launch a legal challenge this week to the European Union's record US$14 billion tax demand, arguing that EU regulators ignored tax experts and corporate law and deliberately picked a method ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-19
Health or family. That's the usual excuse a beleaguered politician gives when he is forced to bow out of office. In March 2005 then Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa said the “acute leg pain” he had been ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-14
When the Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte, the man dubbed "Trump of the East", told US businesses to pack their bags if they didn't like his anti-American rhetoric, the huge and growing outsourc ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-09
Heavy security at subway stations in Los Angeles greeted commuters on Tuesday as federal and local authorities investigated a specific but uncorroborated threat to detonate a bomb at the Metro Red Lin ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-07
Residents of besieged rebel-held eastern Aleppo have fewer than 10 days to receive aid or face starvation and death from a lack of medical supplies. That's according to the head of the Syria Civil Def ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-25
Scores of Hong Kong-listed companies, many of them small, are drumming up investor interest in the mainland ahead of the launch of a cross-border stock trading link between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Mai ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-21
On Wednesday Hong Kong people and the rest of the world closely monitored the edge-of-the-seat race for the White House between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. When it became clear that America chos ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-10
