President Xi Jinping has demanded an investigation into a New Year's Eve stampede in Shanghai that killed 36 people and injured 47. The crush happened in Chenyi Square in the city's historic Bund dist ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
A 14-year-girl arrested before Christmas for making graffiti on a wall at a former Occupy protest site has been sent to a children's home, RTHK reported. Police detained the girl for drawing a flower ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-31
US Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested a man from Colorado who posted online threats advocating the killing of police officers after receiving a tip from search giant Google. Jeremiah Pere ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-24
South Korea on Tuesday boosted computer security in the country's nuclear power plants after President Park Geun-hye said there had been a series of "grave" data leaks. Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power C ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-24
OPEC's leader has vowed that the oil cartel will not cut output even if the price of crude falls to US$20 a barrel. Ali al-Naimi, the Saudi oil minister, signaled an end to the traditional strategy of ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-23
Taliban gunmen on Tuesday broke into a military-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and opened fire, killing at least 132 students and nine staff members. It was the bloodiest massacre the co ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-17
Commandos stormed a Sydney cafe early on Tuesday morning and freed hostages being held there at gunpoint, ending a 16-hour siege in which three people including the attacker were killed. Police have n ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-16
The European Union and the United States criticized Turkish police raids on media outlets close to a US-based Muslim cleric, which have led to the arrest of at least 24 people. The operations against ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-15
Hearst Corp. has bought a 25 per cent stake in AwesomenessTV, the teen-focused digital video network owned by DreamWorks Animation, the Financial Times reported. The deal values Awesomeness at US$325 ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-12
A US Senate intelligence committee report on the extreme interrogation methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency on Al-Qaeda suspects showed that the frontline officers themselves had expressed ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-11
China's military infrastructure is one of the biggest in the world. With a defense budget that increases about 12 percent every year, the emerging superpower has acquired the most sophisticated weapon ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-10
He looks and moves like Bruce Lee. Since childhood, 20-year-old Abbas Alizada has been an avid fan of the late kung fu icon, who has inspired so many young people all over the world to take up martial ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-10
Moody's thinks investment banks are still rewarding their executives too quickly, encouraging them to engage in risky activity, the Financial Times reported. Following the global financial crisis in 2 ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-09
China's economic growth is expected to slow to 6.8 percent in 2015 as the country reduces fixed investment to combat industry overcapacity, a top economist at the Societe Generale Corporate & Inve ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-09
The Federal Reserve is expected to maintain its pledge to keep interest rates near zero for a "considerable time" as it is likely to take a slow and steady approach to its first rate rise in a decade. ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-09
The Vatican has found hundreds of millions of euros in various accounts with no trace of it being in its books. Economy minister Cardinal George Pell said the money was "tucked away" in accounts of va ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-05
President Barack Obama said Chinese President Xi Jinping is raising human rights concerns and worrying his neighbors after consolidating power more quickly than any Chinese leader in decades. However ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-04
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is not known as “hard-boned” ("unyielding" in Chinese) for nothing. He is especially tough on Hong Kong's young people. Having promised to tackle the youth issue in his ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-24
Hong Kong has topped Good magazine's list of the world's 50 most inspiring cities. The magazine's second annual Good City Index celebrates the cities that best capture the elusive quality of "possibil ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-20
Prague's graffiti-covered John Lennon Wall -- the inspiration for Hong Kong's sticky-note-covered Lennon Wall at Occupy Central's Admiralty protest site -- was painted completely white on Tuesday. Th ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-19
