HSBC Holdings Plc agreed to sell its Brazilian unit to Banco Bradesco SA for US$5.2 billion. Europe's top bank is retreating from the second-largest emerging market economy after years of disappointin ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-03
The United States and Egypt are returning to a "stronger base" in bilateral ties despite tensions and human rights concerns, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday after talks with his Egypti ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-03
"Hi, this is a call from the Liaison Office in Hong Kong. You have a problematic parcel. Please press zero for enquiry." Many Hong Kong people may have received such pre-recorded voice mail through th ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-31
Honeywell International Inc. has agreed to buy the utility consumption metering business of Britain's Melrose Industries Plc. for about US$5.1 billion. It's the largest acquisition by Honeywell in mor ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-29
Tight land supply is stifling growth and hampering efforts to improve living standards in Hong Kong, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam said Friday. Lam blamed the problem on a "repositioning policy" after th ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
A Pentagon investigation into the shipment of live anthrax spores to researchers in the US and seven other countries has concluded that protocols to inactive the bacteria were deficient, Reuters repor ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
It seems that Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying may be losing support from his allies in Hong Kong and Beijing. That would explain why he arranged for a cabinet reshuffle in an attempt to protect his jo ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-22
Mayors and governors from major cities around the world signed a declaration at the Vatican urging global leaders to take bold action at a landmark summit in Paris this year on global warming. At a co ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-22
The end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting, has in the past inspired friendly gestures between Indian and Pakistani forces on the disputed border. They would use Eid al-Fitr to reach out to ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
Icy mountains and a surprisingly young, crater-free surface are showing up in the first close-up views of Pluto. The images are the first to emerge from a probe after a pass within 12,550 kilometers o ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
A manhunt is under way after Mexico's most wanted drug lord escaped over the weekend from a high-security prison through a tunnel built right under his cell. Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who bribed his ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-13
Pope Francis said protecting the planet was no longer a choice but a duty and called for a new "social justice" where access to the earth's resources would be based on equality instead of economic int ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was seeking a last-minute rescue at an emergency eurozone summit in Brussels on Tuesday, days before his country's banks run out of money. EU leaders are scheduled ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
Anti-Japan dramas on television about the war have been an important part of Chinese nationalistic propaganda over the last few decades, but things sometimes go wrong. A video clip lasting 1 minute an ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
If you're the wife of X-Men and Les Miserables star Hugh Jackman, how do you handle all the young and eager ladies hovering around your famous husband? There's nothing to it, according to 59-year-old ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
A tutorial school in Tai Po has become the object of ridicule among Hong Kong netizens after it came out with a hard-sell advertisement that warns parents they could wreck their children's future if t ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-02
China has promised to invest in the European Union's new infrastructure fund and warned it didn't want to see Greece leave the euro zone. Speaking in his first summit with top EU officials on Monday, ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-30
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev apologized to the victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing on Wednesday, just before he was formally sentenced to death for his role in the deadly attacks. "Now I am sorry for the ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-25
US President Barack Obama has reassured his French counterpart Francois Hollande following claims that the US National Security Agency (NSA) had spied on France's leaders. Obama spoke to Hollande over ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-25
Competition in this year's Miss Hong Kong pageant has been taken to a higher level after a well-qualified young musician took the media spotlight. Enter Ada Pong Cheuk-yan (龐卓欣), a Manhattan School of ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-24
