The Philippines will upgrade existing facilities on its inhabited islands and reefs in the South China Sea and not occupy new territories, adhering to a 2002 informal code in the disputed waters, defe ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-07
... terranean Sea against the airbase controlled by Assad's forces in response to the poison gas attack on Tuesday in a rebel-held area, Reuters reports, citing US officials. Facing his biggest foreign po ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-07
North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Wednesday from its east coast into the sea off the Peninsula, South Korea's military said, ahead of a summit between US and Chinese leaders who are set to disc ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-05
Legend holds that King Canute brought his flatterers to the sea to show them that even a king could not command the ocean waves, that the laws of nature are more powerful than the decrees of men. So p ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-03
SpaceX successfully relaunched a rocket recovered at sea from its maiden flight last year and capped the feat with another return landing on an ocean platform. The unprecedented twin achievements of r ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-31
... uth China Sea, Taiwan and trade. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang gave no details of the agenda, but spoke of the need to see the big picture while fostering mutual interests in trade relati ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-31
Rescue teams from the Marine Police and the Government Flying Service are searching for a foreign worker who fell into the sea after a construction platform collapsed at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bri ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-30
... otice the sea change in China’s foreign-exchange market. But, three years after it began, most observers have figured it out. Now someone needs to explain it to Trump. Mnuchin should be the one to do ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-23
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday said he trusted China would not build anything on a disputed South China Sea shoal because he was given its "word of honor" and Beijing would not want ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-23
... wned in a sea of options. For a good online shopping firm, achieving a 30 percent growth rate is still very much possible. It is entirely reasonable for them to trade at over 20 times price-earnings r ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-22
... ozen Meat Sea Food Wholesalers Retailers Association, told the Hong Kong Economic Journal that as many as 40 containers of frozen meat, involving total weight of 3.8 metric tons, are believed to be on ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-22
... through a sea of red tape which has deterred many bright and hopeful entrepreneurs. This bureaucratic culture may be one of the reasons Hong Kong never had our own Elon Musk. Taking a step back, how m ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-21
As sky-high property prices squeezed out many local buyers, real-estate agents have been urging Hongkongers to put their money elsewhere: assets in cheaper overseas markets. There are no official figu ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-17
China has started fresh construction work in the disputed South China Sea, new satellite images show, a sign that Beijing is continuing to strengthen its military reach across the vital trade waterway ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-15
... up in the seas off the east of the Korean peninsula was part of a "reckless scheme" to attack North Korea, it said. "If they infringe on the DPRK's sovereignty and dignity even a bit, its army will la ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-15
