... thwestern islands, is one of the most extreme militant groups operating in the region. It claims to be fighting for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate across the Muslim regions of Southeast Asi ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-27
... l Pacific islands. Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court found that detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island breached the right to freedom of 850 people held there -- half of them already determined to ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-27
A tourism group in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido has been forced to change the title of a travel brochure after Chinese visitors criticized it for implying they lack common sense. Hokkaido ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-26
Japan has been suffering sluggish economic growth for over 25 years. The island nation enjoyed scorching expansion for several decades until the 1990s, when bubbles burst in the real estate and stock ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-26
... hilippine island. The Philippine army said a severed head was found on a remote island on Monday, five hours after the expiry of a ransom deadline set by militants who had threatened to execute one of ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-26
... rtificial island that links Tuen Mun and Chek Lap Kok as part of the bridge at about 10:50 a.m. Saturday when he was setting up a 15-meter-high platform for work. Noranin tethered himself to a fence w ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-25
... Hong Kong Island to Britain in the Treaty of Nanjing -- Jardine Matheson set up offices and a dockyard at East Point in Causeway Bay. Around the time the trading company was transforming the mint buil ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
... Hong Kong Island with trams. But many could not miss the unusual sight. They said the scene was something straight out of Grand Theft Auto, an action-adventure video game with plenty of wild car racin ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
... rote. The island's normally secretive top security agency said the Gambia move was to pressure Tsai to "fall in line with China's expectations" once in office. Throughout, Tsai, who has said she wants ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-21
The United States has urged China to reaffirm that the country has no plans to deploy military aircraft in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. The comments Tuesday came two days after Beijing ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-20
... Hong Kong Island constituency and Lai possibly joining the race in Kowloon East. Alex Chow and Lester Shum, along with other campus comrades, have formed a new alliance with Shum deliberating on a cra ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-19
... southern island of Mindanao. "There was no intention of disrespecting our women and those who have been victims of this horrible crime. Sometimes my mouth can get the better of me. My life is an open ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-19
A Chinese military aircraft has for the first time landed at a new airport on an island China has built in a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea, state media said Monday. The incident raises t ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-18
... e Pacific island nation of Tonga, with no immediate reports of damage. Three nuclear plants in the southern Japanese region were unaffected by the quakes but the Nuclear Regulation Authority said it w ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-18
... nt of the island -- in other words, dishing out more land for property development. However property developers are powerful people, and their voice carries far more weight than that of ordinary citi ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-15
Po Toi Island (蒲台島), often referred to as the 'South Pole of Hong Kong', features many interesting rock formations, thanks to the weathered granite there. There are also quite a few other sightseeing ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-15
... ern major island of Kyushu and nearby Shikoku. In March 2011, a quake of magnitude 9 struck offshore north of Tokyo, causing tsunami waves along the coast that killed nearly 20,000 people and triggere ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-15
... Hong Kong Island and Kowloon before the first cross-harbor tunnel opened in 1972. In their time, the car ferries were a Hong Kong icon immortalized in many movies. Services stopped in 1998, a year aft ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-14
... about its island building and militarization in the South China Sea. But, if that cannot be entirely stopped, Beijing wants discussion kept to a low level and, preferably, not mentioned in any subseq ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-11
... ng Kong's Island School and at Queens’ College in Cambridge. After graduation, she appeared in many TV dramas and movies. Her popularity soared after her appearance in the 2006 Hindi film Rang De Basa ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-11
