China and the United States are ramping up a word war after a tense exchange in the South China Sea. Beijing is insisting it's entitled to keep watch over airspace and seas surrounding artificial isla ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-22
Half a year ago, things were very different in the eurozone. There was talk of a third bailout package for Greece. It was going to be smaller, but at least there was talk of it. The Greek economy had ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
Spotify, the Swedish commercial music streaming platform, is pushing into video content and podcasts, weeks before Apple launches its own music streaming service. Chief executive Daniel Ek said Spotif ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
Iran will not allow inspectors to interview its top scientists or accept "unreasonable demands" by world powers over its disputed nuclear program. The warning comes as a June 30 deadline is drawing cl ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
US Federal Reserve officials believed that it might be too early to raise interest rates in June as some temporary factors were holding the economy back, minutes of an April policy meeting showed. Acc ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-21
While some incubators will look for “techie” products to invest in, the founder of Chinese incubator TriBeluga said she looks at the leaders of start-ups to decide whether to invest hundreds of thousa ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-19
A noise-insulating product made by a firm funded by Chinese incubator TriBeluga will allow people to talk on the phone even amid the deafening noise of a construction site or a plane taking off. The " ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-19
Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP), a non-profit organization, is launching a free English-language news website next month after recently completing the first round of an online crowd-funding campaign. “We ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-18
A person making US$40,000 a year is better off than someone who was making the same salary decades ago, because inventions like the internet have boosted the quality of life, Bill Gates, the world’s r ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-18
Perhaps because it's overshadowed by the migrant trafficking in the Mediterranean, the plight of thousands of refugees fleeing Burma and Bangladesh is taking a back seat and getting fewer mentions in ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-15
China is set to delay the maiden flight of its first homegrown commercial jet, the Comac C919, as the final assembly of the aircraft is taking longer than expected, Reuters reported. Delivery of the f ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-14
Britain is opting out of a quota system for distributing asylum seekers to European Union countries. The newly reelected Conservative government of David Cameron campaigned on a promise to curb immigr ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-14
United States Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to reaffirm Washington's commitment to ensuring freedom of navigation and flight in the South China Sea when he visits China this weekend. Kerry ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-14
China's banking sector is facing a cloudy outlook this year amid worsening asset quality and other challenges ranging from macroeconomic slowdown and value-added tax, Ernst & Young (EY) said on Tu ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-12
US Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen warned Wednesday of potential dangers from high equity valuations but said that risks to financial stability remained generally in check. "I would highlight that ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-07
Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen met with a research firm that later published confidential details from the central bank but said she did not know where the information had come from, Yellen met w ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
At the pace technology is developing, even the most tech-savvy of consumers will find it hard to predict the next big thing in mobile devices. First there were smartphones, then smart watches. But eve ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-30
Wang Jianlin controls the world's biggest cinema chain and is building skyscrapers that will redraw the skylines of London and Chicago. Among the 430 US dollar billionaires in China, Wang, the riches ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-29
Rioters hurled bricks, looted businesses and set fires in Baltimore on Monday in violence that followed the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died after he was injured in police custody. The dis ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-28
Every day we make hundreds of decisions, many of them related to the principle of "pocket it first". First question of the day: Would you cash out of the market? China allowed fund managers to short-s ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-20
