A 34-nation Islamic military coalition has been launched to fight terrorists "whatever their sect and name". Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced the grouping which includes Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
Bad news for Hong Kong residential developers and owners but good news for young people. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying recently told a group of secondary students that he is determined to bring down ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-11
Investigators believe the married couple who massacred 14 people in Southern California last week -- the US-born husband and his Pakistani wife -- had been radicalized "for some time", but no evidence ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-08
A Hong Kong rugby player is desperately looking for a man who caught him on a dash cam being knocked down by a speeding car in Jordan. Tom McQueen took to Facebook to reach out to the man after seeing ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen on Wednesday expressed confidence in the US economy and said that she is "looking forward" to the central bank's first interest rate hike in nearly a decade. "W ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
NATO allies plan to send patrol aircraft and missiles to strengthen Ankara's air defenses on its border with Syria, officials said, following Turkey's shooting-down of a Russian bomber. As NATO countr ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-02
Indonesian investigators said on Tuesday a chronically faulty component and the crew's attempt to fix the problem were among the factors that contributed to the crash of an AirAsia passenger jet last ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the reason Turkey downed a Russian warplane last week was that it wanted to protect supplies of oil from Islamic State. Putin added that the decision to shoot dow ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
The International Monetary Fund is expected to officially announce on Monday the addition of the Chinese currency to its reserves basket, an acknowledgement of the renminbi, also known as yuan, as a m ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-30
Canada's China-born Miss World contestant was stopped in Hong Kong and denied permission to board a flight to the beauty pageant's finals in China, Reuters reported. Anastasia Lin, 25, a Toronto actre ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-27
An exchange between University of Hong Kong vice chancellor Peter Mathieson and council member Lo Chung-mau is the highlight of the latest leaked recording from the HKU council's Sept. 29 meeting, App ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-26
Guotai Junan International Holdings Ltd. (01788.HK), a Hong Kong subsidiary of China’s No. 2 brokerage, said it hasn't been able to reach its chairman since last week. That spooked investors and promp ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-24
US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker said China will offer better legal protection to US firms that suffer theft of trade secrets, Reuters reported. Pritzker was speaking in an interview Monday after ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-24
Security officials are warning that threats remain despite the killing of the mastermind of last week's Paris attacks by Islamic extremists. Belgian jihadist Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged planner of ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-20
Islamic jihadists have released chilling plans to carry out suicide attacks and car bombings on the White House and more carnage in France. The new threat came in a six-minute video released on Thursd ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-20
An army of religious sisters who rescue victims of human trafficking by posing as prostitutes to infiltrate brothels and buying children being sold into slavery, is expanding to 140 countries, its cha ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
Facing a United Nations review of its human rights record, China denied that it held political prisoners and said its government prohibited use of torture. However, exiled dissidents who attended the ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in people and pigs in China. Some samples have the potential for epidemic, according to Reuters. Th ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the US House of Representatives, said an opportunity exists to find "common ground" with Chinese authorities on Tibet, Reuters reported. Pelosi, a longtime criti ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
French fighter jets struck Islamic State positions in Syria after Friday's coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the suicide bombings ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-16
