Japan is said to be planning to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May in its biggest show of naval force in the region since World War Two. Th ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-14
... tir-fried seasonal vegetables. Not far from there was an eatery that specialized in claypot rice. Between Kansu Street and Jordan Road, customers ordered freshly boiled mantis shrimps, red-spotted sw ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-10
... into the Sea of Japan on Sunday. The deployment has sparked a fierce backlash from Beijing, particularly among the hawks in the People's Liberation Army (PLA), who see them as an offensive and powerf ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-10
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) recently test-fired a sea-launched medium-range ballistic missile, according to Iranian news agencies. Tasnim News Agency cited an IRGC commander, Amir ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-10
... ion group Sea Shepherd Global found that many shark fin traders would use labels such as “dried seafood” and “marine products” to trick shipping companies into bringing their goods into Hong Kong. Mea ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-07
North Korea fired four ballistic missiles into the sea off Japan's northwest coast early on Monday, South Korean and Japanese officials said. The launches came days after the reclusive state promised ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-06
... important sea route between the Middle East and East Asia as well as connecting the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific, Sri Lanka has tremendous strategic value both from the commercial and geopolit ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-06
... uth China Sea dispute? With bated breath the international community is waiting for a more definite answer from the White House. As far as China is concerned, it would definitely be good news if the U ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-03
Microfossils up to almost 4.3 billion years old found in Canada of microbes are similar to the bacteria that thrive today around sea floor hydrothermal vents and may represent the oldest-known evidenc ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-02
... ts backup seats available to staff the space station in case of delays with US commercial space taxis under development by Boeing and by Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as Spac ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-01
... er By The Sea star Casey Affleck was named best actor. "Man, I wish I had something better and more meaningful to say ... I'm just dumbfounded that I'm included," said Affleck, a first-time Oscar winn ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-27
... migratory season. This would allow the birds to consume the fish while the fishpond owners could also benefit as the process would turn the ponds into better breeding grounds for fish. Promoting local ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-24
Indonesian President Joko Widodo will discuss the prospect of joint patrols with Australia in the South China Sea when he meets his counterpart Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the weekend. Widodo t ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-24
... uth China Sea for “routine operations” despite an explicit warning from Beijing three days previously “to refrain from challenging China’s sovereignty and security” in the area. Under its “one-China p ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-20
Back in the 1930s, Tai O was one of the four biggest fishing villages in Hong Kong, contributing about a quarter of the seafood supply to the local market. And because refrigeration was limited in tho ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-17
