Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a missile fired from a launcher brought into Ukraine from Russia and located in a village held by pro-Russian rebels, international prosecutors say. The ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-29
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and real estate tycoon Donald Trump clash in their first US presidential debate, with the Democratic nominee accusing her Republican rival of racism, sexis ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-27
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he will visit Russia and China this year to chart an independent foreign policy and "open alliances" with two powers with historic rivalries with the United S ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-27
Health minister Dr. Ko Wing-man has called for stepped-up mosquito control measures in all districts after a 59-year-old Hong Kong woman was diagnosed with dengue fever, the fourth local case reported ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-21
China is Britain's biggest supplier of surveillance equipment, raising security concerns over some of the Asian giant's investments in the country. Hikvision, a company controlled by the Chinese gover ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-20
South Korea has a plan to annihilate the North Korean capital if it shows any signs of mounting a nuclear attack, the South's Yonhap news agency reports. A military source told the news agency every p ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-12
Saudi Arabia and Russia have agreed to cooperate in world oil markets, saying they will not act immediately but could limit output in the future. The announcement sent prices higher on hopes the two t ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-06
The head of the International Monetary Fund has called on global leaders to take "forceful" action to revive the world economy. IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said that as of 2016, global eco ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-02
The earliest fossil evidence of life on Earth has been found in rocks 3.7 billion years old in Greenland, scientists said. The discovery raises chances of life on Mars aeons ago when both planets were ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-01
Facebook Inc. will not become a media company, its founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said, adding that the firm will remain a technology platform. An increasing number of users are turning t ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-30
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve is warning that a law banning the full-body "burkini" swimsuit is unconstitutional, ineffective and will only ratchet up tensions between communities. The Co ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-29
Wage-cost pressures are affecting the profit margins of Singapore businesses and sparking worries about a possible recession in the city-state's economy. At roughly 43 percent of gross domestic produc ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-22
Egyptian judoka Islam El Shehaby has been sent home from the Rio Olympics after refusing to shake the hand of Israeli Or Sasson following the end of their bout, Reuters reports, citing a statement fro ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-16
A Chinese tour guide stabbed and killed a tourist who was visiting Kenya's famed Maasai Mara Game Reserve after an argument over the seating arrangement for dinner, Reuters reports. John Kiruti, manag ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-10
Russia has been barred from next month's Rio Paralympics over its "medals over morals mentality" that caused its Olympic team to come under International Olympic Committee (IOC) sanctions but largely ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-08
A book about Miss Hong Kong Louisa Mak Ming-sze by her mother made its debut at this year's Hong Kong Book Fair and was sold out on the fourth day of the annual event. This isn't surprising at all, co ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-05
Justice Secretary Rimsky Yuen defended a decision to ban localist leader Edward Leung from running in the upcoming Legislative Council election, saying the move was based on legal grounds. An election ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-04
Al Qaeda's powerful Syrian branch, the Nusra Front, announced it was ending its relationship with the global jihadist network founded by Osama bin Laden, to remove a pretext used by world powers to at ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-29
