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
Some young college graduates, still a bit wet behind the ears, founded the Hong Kong National Party last month with a pro-Hong Kong independence platform. Beijing lost no time hitting out with severe ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-06
Recent satellite images have pointed to "suspicious" activity at North Korea's main nuclear site at Yongbyon, according to a US research institute. The images suggest that reprocessing is under way at ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-05
A Chinese casino junket operator has returned US$4.63 million of the US$81 million stolen by hackers from the Bangladesh central bank's account in the US Federal Reserve and laundered in Manila's casi ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-01
Just a few days after a shrimp feeding frenzy at a buffet restaurant in Thailand hit the news, another episode of misbehavior by a group of mainland Chinese tourists was captured on video and has gone ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-24
Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad has filed a lawsuit against Prime Minister Najib Razak, accusing him of corruption and abuse of power. The civil suit filed in a Kuala Lumpur court seeks appro ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-24
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said the United States should use waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques when questioning terror suspects, and renewed his call for to ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-23
US Secretary of State John Kerry is accusing Islamic State of systematic killing of Christians, Yazidis and Shi'ite Muslims, calling it "genocidal by self-proclamation, by ideology, and by actions". " ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-18
I knew I was off to a miserable week when my gas water heater broke down. But I wasn't expecting a disaster or anything close. It was all clear to me by the time the technician had started fixing the ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-12
China's violence-prone western region of Xinjiang needs to put more effort into developing its Uyghur heartland to ensure young people have "something to do and money to earn", Premier Li Keqiang told ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-11
The Philippine Supreme Court has ruled that Senator Grace Poe, who spent much of her life in the United States, is eligible to run for president. The 9-6 ruling Tuesday reverses a decision by the elec ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-09
Saudi Arabia is facing increasing pressure from foreign countries to ensure that local construction firms pay thousands of workers back wages going back months. Construction companies are feeling the ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
An Iranian billionaire who helped Tehran evade western oil sanctions has been sentenced to death for embezzlement. Babak Zanjani and two accomplices were convicted by an Islamic court of "spreading co ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-07
EU Council President Donald Tusk told illegal economic migrants not to risk their lives or money to make a perilous trip to Europe "for nothing" but said unilateral actions by European Union states to ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-04
Oh well, there's always next time. Life goes on for the rest of us but it will never be the same for the five lucky winners of Tuesday's record HK$136 million (US$17.5 million) jackpot. Millions of dr ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-02
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton clinched a series of primary victories in the biggest night of voting for the US presidential nominations. Trump and Clinton each won four states o ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-02
It wasn’t anything we haven’t heard before. But in a year in which #OscarsSoWhite dominated headlines, awards host Chris Rock’s tone-deaf joke at the expense of Asian kids was a cheap shot. In case yo ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
The visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to the United States illustrates the seemingly schizophrenic relationship between the two countries. On one hand, clear progress was made on joint action ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
