... rtook New York as the "billionaire capital of the world", and country-to-city migration is at its highest level in recent history. But mainland China's average annual wage was 56,360 yuan (US$8,655) i ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-10
A former New York University student from China who tried to buy a deadly toxin in order to sell "simple and easy death pills" has been jailed by a US court. Cheng Le, 22, was sentenced to 16 years in ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-09
... nt in New York City. A graduate student from China, Zhang spends her free time in the city's swankiest department stores buying designer goods for customers back home. She once blew US$45,000 on the c ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
... n the New York Stock Exchange at the height of a frigid climate for Chinese internet companies. The offering initially flopped, but the stock later became turbocharged as serious investors and later s ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
The Washington Post ran an article in May last year on how a 99 US cent Amazon Kindle ebook may have saved NASA and the Mars space program. Incidentally, it became a New York Times bestseller and, as ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
As sea levels rise, threatening cities from New York to Shanghai, the economic damage will increase even faster, scientists said on Monday. Extreme floods whipped up by storms will become ever more co ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
... ) and New York City (tied with Tokyo) lagged behind most big German, Scandinavian, Australian and Canadian cities. At 73rd, Seoul was slightly behind Hong Kong. Taipei was 84th. Shanghai (101st) was t ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-24
... gs in New York on Thursday - had fixed some of the problems since it brought them to the company's attention in November, but the Android browser still sends sensitive data such as the device ID in an ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-24
... ks on New York and Washington. The facility came to symbolize aggressive detention practices that opened the US to accusations of torture. Most detainees have been held without trial for more than a d ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-24
Thousands of protesters rallied in New York and more than 30 other US cities over the weekend in support of a former New York City police officer who was convicted of manslaughter for a shooting in a ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
... , the New York Times and Reporters Sans Frontières made a serial exposé in 2013 of the Hong Kong assets owned by families of top Chinese leaders, including former premier Wen Jiabao (溫家寶). Before long ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-22
... y the New York Times and recommended by former Financial Secretary Antony Leung, the book features a matchstick on its cover. A local artist, Kit Man, has re-created an image based on British artist B ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-22
... ly to New York and the US West coast, Bloomberg reported. Philippine Airlines will take delivery of the A350-900s in two years and the aircraft are meant to replace older A340 models, company presiden ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-18
... ir at New York's Tyche Capital Advisors. "The output freeze will do nothing to alleviate excess supply." Goldman Sachs, Wall Street's most influential voice in oil trading, was equally bearish on the ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-17
... y the New York Times, CNN, Al Jazeera English, Huffington Post, CBS, Daily Beast and other media, the report said. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-16
... , the New York-based insurer said on Thursday in a statement. Joining Paulson is Samuel Merksamer, a managing director at Icahn Capital. AIG chief executive Peter Hancock and chairman Doug Steenland a ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-12
Oil prices fell to their lowest level in more than 12 years as crude stockpiles at the delivery point for New York futures hit record highs, Bloomberg reported. West Texas Intermediate futures sank to ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-12
... jing, New York and Canada are likely to become targets. Investors should be careful about placing bets in Western Europe where large inflows of refugees could trigger terrorist attacks. Global market ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-11
... o the New York Times. The seaside resort east of Beijing is home to a municipal water official who made national headlines last year after the authorities said they found a one-ton mound of moldy cash ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-04
Mark Zuckerberg is the world's fourth richest man after Facebook shares fended off plunging stock markets. By the end of a tumultuous session in New York Tuesday, the 31-year-old founder of the larges ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-03
