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
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
