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
The South African government is considering a controversial proposal to legalize trade in rhinoceros horns in a bid to curb poaching. The plan seeks to beat the crime syndicates engaged in the trade b ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-14
Morocco has been disqualified from the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations and dumped as host of the event after refusing to commit to the scheduled dates early next year because of fears over Ebola, the Assoc ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-12
You must remember her. Nancy Kissel was a rich Hong Kong housewife before her husband's murder by her hand 11 years ago thrust her into world notoriety. Convicted by two juries for the killing which c ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-06
China will set up a new anti-corruption bureau under a top government prosecutor to handle "unprecedentedly serious" corruption issues, Xinhua reported. A full-time member of the procuratorial committ ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-03
Tse Sui Luen Jewellery (International) Ltd. (00417.HK) says it will be promoting its products on the online shopping channel of Hong Kong Television Network Ltd. (HKTV) (01137.HK). Lambert Chan, deput ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-31
The World Bank warned China against carrying its "ambitious" 2014 economic growth target of 7.5 percent into next year, saying that such a move would detract from the government's reform plans, Reuter ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-29
The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect is expected to be launched by the end of this year, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said on Monday. "At this stage we still expect the launch date to be by the end o ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-27
