The World Bank expects a surge in the number of people being forced to move out of their homes as it ramps up funding for new infrastructure projects in the developing world. Some three million people ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-05
The proportion of women on the boards of the companies on the Hang Seng Index (HSI) has risen to 11.1 percent this year from 9.6 percent last year. It is the highest ratio in five years but still fall ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-03
Iran must commit to a verifiable freeze of at least 10 years on its nuclear activity to help pave way for a landmark atomic deal, US President Barack Obama said on Monday. In an interview with Reuters ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-03
Sun Art Retail Group Ltd. (06808.HK), China's leading hypermarket operator, hopes to build its online sales to 10 billion yuan (US$1.6 billion) within three years from 150 million yuan as online retai ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
China has ordered local governments in two key steel-producing cities to take tougher action against polluters from the sector as part of efforts to improve air quality, Reuters reported. Inspectors f ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
An Argentine judge has dismissed allegations that President Cristina Fernandez tried to cover up Iran's purported involvement in the deadly bombing of a Jewish center in 1994. The judge on Thursday "d ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-27
A North Korean shipping company, blacklisted by the United Nations, has renamed most of its vessels in a bid to disguise their origin and continues illicit shipments in violation of UN sanctions, Reut ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-26
Just in time for the annual meetings of China's top legislative and political advisory bodies next month, President Xi Jinping has unveiled his political philosophy: the Four Comprehensives. He first ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-26
In this day and age, it is often considered racist or culturalist to criticize one's regional neighbors. Yet as the Year of the Sheep begins, some Thais appear to be reaching the limit of their forbe ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-25
Hang Seng Bank Ltd. (00011.HK) will hire more people to expand its cross-border business despite deteriorating credit quality in the mainland. Loan impairment charges jumped 113.4 percent to HK$1.14 b ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-25
Happy Lunar New Year! Happy Year of the ... Is it sheep or goat? Up to now the debate is raging over which zodiac creature should represent the lunar new year which starts on Feb. 19. As Chinese com ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-18
Jack Ma Yun, founding chairman of e-commerce godzilla Alibaba Group, is worth at least US$20 billion. But before he was the richest person in China, Ma went through a lot of rejection, Business Inside ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-18
It's a crying shame, but things like this do happen. The plane that once served President Dwight Eisenhower, the first aircraft to be given the Air Force One call sign, a state-of-the-art machine duri ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-17
Forget iPhone 6 or iPad 3. It's sort of nice to have them, but neither would probably make you scream in delight when your name is announced as the winner of the grand prize at the Lunar New Year offi ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-16
Macau Legend Development Ltd. (01680.HK), a satellite casino running on the license of gaming giant SJM Holdings Ltd. (00880.HK), is urging the government to consider the interests of all casino opera ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-12
More than 300 people died trying to cross the sea from Africa to Italy this week, according to the UN refugee agency. The high number of deaths, including 29 people who died of hypothermia on the deck ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-12
Mainland investors are likely to be able to invest in more stocks through the forthcoming Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect than they can through the scheme that now links the Shanghai and Hong Kong ex ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-10
Michael Lynch has resigned as chief executive of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, citing family and health reasons, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, who chairs the authority, s ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-10
Times Property Holdings Ltd. (01233.HK) said it will go ahead with its urban redevelopment projects in Guangdong province although similar projects of developer Kaisa Group Holdings Ltd. (01638.HK) we ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-09
Iran's supreme leader said he supports a fair compromise in nuclear talks with the West. "I would go along with any agreement that could be made. Of course, if it is not a bad deal. No agreement is be ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-09
