... ey turned eight about five years ago, the private housing estate, which was developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties and managed by its unit Kai Shing Management Services, decided to retire them. That's p ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-03
A 45-year-old Filipino domestic helper pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually assaulting her eight-year-old ward for nearly two years at her employer's home in Kwai Chung, Apple Daily reports. She ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-03
... at least eight years to reach maturity, when they are almost 1.5 meters long. Their eggs can fetch as much as 1,000 yen (US$8.28) a gram. A large fish can yield as much as 3.5 kilograms of caviar, 50 ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-03
... verage of eight mainland women a month gave birth in Hong Kong without prior hospital booking. That compares with 160 in the fourth quarter alone four years earlier. Meanwhile, 61 mainlanders who ille ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-02
... falling freight rates are dragging on economic growth. Shipping a 40-foot standard container from Rotterdam to Shanghai now costs just US$300, just enough to cover fuel, processing costs and canal to ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-01
... ty. After eight months of detention, the Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People's Court started hearing the case last December, but sentencing has yet to be scheduled. Lawyers said smuggling air guns ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-01
... ained for eight months without charge." The report, meanwhile, also highlighted the disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers who had been publishing titles critical of Beijing. In other Hong Kong-r ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-01
... total of eight products to China, including blackberries and strawberries. On Jan. 23, the first batch of Mexican blackberries arrived in Shanghai by air. “Mexico is an agro-food power house. Right n ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-01
The bed of the pickup truck is already sagging under the weight of two camels, with no room to spare. But the butcher bought another and he’s not about to hire a second truck to move his haul. A few ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-30
... ng fakes. Eight pilot cities are now involved in the cross-border e-commerce scheme, namely Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Zhengzhou, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Tianjin. -- Contact us at english@ ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-28
... for up to eight hours a day and hospitals complain of shortages in medicine and medical equipment. Park said most of the apps developed by Gaza Sky Geeks addressed problems found in other parts of the ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-27
... the first eight months since it opened its doors at the end of March 2014, he noted. The Fox official said he will not rule out the possibility of choosing second-tier cities in Northern China for loc ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-26
... save for eight years. It is striking, therefore, that in her victory address, Tsai, who will be the first woman to be president when she assumes office on May 20, repeatedly used the name Republic of ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
The leaders of seven of Australia's eight states and territories called for the country to become a republic, reigniting a thorny debate before a national holiday, Reuters reported Monday. Australia i ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
Iran is planning to buy 160 European planes, including eight superjumbos, and a specified number of Boeing passenger aircraft in a spending spree fueled by the lifting of crippling western sanctions t ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
... tes, only eight are above the 10-week average, the lowest since 2008. That’s a sign that the whole housing market is under pressure. The ratio of market breadth below the 10-week average rarely drops ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-23
... t time in eight years. Meanwhile, the Hong Kong dollar has fallen to 7.83 from 7.75 against the greenback, marking the end of one-way inflows. That followed a rally which saw the local unit gain 25 pe ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
... nravelled eight years of courtship by Beijing of her predecessor, Ma Ying-jeou, who ultimately paid the price for warming to the mainland in the resounding defeat of his Kuomintang allies. Now Beijing ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
... k another eight decades to introduce direct current as a means of power transmission. Likewise, ENIAC, the first electronic computer, was developed in secret during World War II. Computing power and u ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-22
