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
Republican Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election will deepen Asian allies' anxiety about Washington's commitment to post-war security arrangements in the face of a rising China and vo ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-10
Toblerone has drawn mounting criticisms from British consumers who are upset over the bigger spaces between the distinctive jagged peaks of the chocolate bars sold in the UK. US manufacturer Mondelez ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-09
More than 1,000 Hong Kong lawyers dressed in black marched through the heart of Hong Kong in silence to denounce a move by China that effectively bars two elected pro-independence lawmakers from takin ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-09
Philippine police are planning to reduce the killing of drug suspects and shift to arresting prominent people tied to the narcotics trade. Project Double Barrel Alpha will put a stronger focus on arre ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-25
Microsoft Corp. saw its shares jump to an all-time high after reporting adjusted revenue and profit that blew past analysts' estimates amid strong sales from its cloud business. The news underscores t ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-21
The United States said it will seek an explanation from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte after he announced his "separation" from the US on Thursday. Duterte made his comments in Beijing, where he ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-21
It seldom rains in Hong Kong in October, much less do we have a storm at this time of the year –and definitely not twice in the same week. But then we have not seen the pro-establishment lawmakers fin ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-20
A European space lander reached Mars on Wednesday, but there are growing fears that it has been lost. Older European and US spacecraft already in orbit relayed data of the lander's six-minute descent. ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-20
Federal Reserve policymakers expect a rate hike "relatively soon" if the US economy continues to strengthen even as doubts on inflation remain. The minutes of the Sept. 20-21 meeting, at which the US ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-13
Renowned American-Taiwanese artist Davy Liu knows what failure means. It's something that has followed him most of his young life. And so when he finally made a breakthrough in his chosen career, he ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
One person was killed and more than 100 injured when a commuter train plowed into a station in New Jersey at the height of the morning rush hour on Thursday. In the accident at Hoboken station, a busy ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
Indian officials say elite troops crossed into Pakistan-ruled Kashmir on Thursday and killed suspected militants preparing to infiltrate and carry out attacks on major cities, raising tensions between ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
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
