Fifty years ago this week, China embarked on what would turn out to be 10 years of turmoil known as the Cultural Revolution. It was not a revolution in the usual sense, in that it was initiated from a ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-17
The semi-official Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macau Studies, founded by Chen Zuoer (陳佐洱), former deputy director of the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, held a seminar last ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-12
An internet storm has been brewing in mainland China over the death of Lei Yang, 29, a native of Hunan province, in police custody. Lei left his Beijing home between 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday to p ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-12
Wealthy countries have seen a dramatic drop in abortions in the past 25 years but poorer developing nations have had only a slight decline. Restrictive laws do little to lower abortion rates and are m ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-12
Britain's Queen Elizabeth was caught on film by the Buckingham Palace cameraman making unguarded comments about last year's state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping. At a garden party in the palace ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-11
The Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, also known as the Hong Kong Anglican Church, has cut off its ties with Chung Chi College, which it co-founded but has stopped supporting financially over the past two dec ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-10
Japanese air bag manufacturer Takata Corp. is expected to announce as early as Wednesday that it is recalling 35 million to 40 million additional inflators in US vehicles, Reuters reported, citing unn ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-04
A new proposal by the Federal Reserve seeks to give big US banks greater protection from hedge funds in a future financial crisis. It requires that some investors wait 48 hours before cutting ties wit ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-04
Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights stipulates that “all peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political s ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-26
US President Barack Obama plans to send 250 more military personnel to Syria, increasing the American presence on the ground there to about 300 troops to help fight Islamic State militants, US officia ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-25
A former deputy head of the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office will be prosecuted for "serious discipline violations", the Chinese Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog said on Thursday. An investi ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
Music superstar Prince, whose genre-defying songs produced such hits as Purple Rain and When Doves Cry and won seven Grammy Awards and an Oscar, is dead at 57. Prince was found unresponsive in an elev ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-22
A new smartphone app that connects babysitters with parents is gaining in popularity in Europe after it was launched by two Belgian women recently. The app, airBsit, was the creation of Geraldine Bie ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-21
China is reacting fiercely to a proposal by US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump to jack up tariffs on Chinese goods. Finance Minister Lou Jiwei called Trump an "irrational type" after ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-18
It doesn't take much to see that Leung Chun-ying fits the argument in a revealing People's Daily article about privilege and special treatment. Leung is not mentioned in the article but the fact it wa ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-12
It's not easy to get an interview with Simon Murray. You'd think that the quintessential Hong Kong taipan would be easier to pin down now that he is 76 and removed from the epicenter of big business. ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-11
Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq are netting between US$150 million and US$200 million a year from illicit trade in plundered antiquities, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations said in a ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-07
The language in an editorial published in North Korea’s state media mouthpiece Rodong Sinmun last week was characteristically nationalistic and placed an incredible burden on the Hermit Kingdom’s citi ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-06
