Formal Mandarin may not always be useful for foreigners trying to make themselves at home in Taiwan, but some common pet phrases will surely come in handy. Jesus Sandoval, a young Spanish man, has poi ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-13
There have been two significant bouts of volatility in emerging currency markets since May last year, each featuring large losses on "carry trades" which involve borrowing low-yielding currencies to i ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-12
If he wasn't selling his home-style pork belly buns near Hunan University in Changsha, 43-year-old vendor Shao Jianhua from Hangzhou looks like he could be leading a nation and mixing with prime minis ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-06
He lived undercover, he operated under an assumed name and worked at all levels in the intelligence world. Edward Snowden, the man who leaked a flood of classified material on US National Security Ag ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-28
A woman expat had to be restrained after she climbed over a glass barrier in the gallery and threatened to jump into the chamber after Hong Kong legislators approved funding for a controversial waste ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-28
You know something has changed on the mainland when a developer cannot open a eight-story clubhouse in prime Shanghai real estate to give the city's elite the space to rub shoulders. Reuters reports ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-26
Prenuptial jitters are par for the course among prospective newlyweds, but when the would-be groom is one of the world's top golfers, the experience could be like trying to sink the winning putt in a ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-22
Are you sometimes tempted to unfriend some people on Facebook because they clutter your account with dozens of selfies -- and that's just in the past half hour -- or snapshots of the breakfast they ha ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-22
China, the world’s largest energy user, has made great progress in its decade-long talks for natural gas supply with Russia, with the latter looking to cut its dependence on Europe as a major market. ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
After 20 years of negotiations, the Philippines and Indonesia have reached an agreement on a sea border dispute, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. The Southeast Asian neighbors concluded their ta ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
There is one curious way Taiwanese pop star Bobby Chen is regarded in China -- his singing is mild and gentle but his views are extreme. That is no comfort to his hordes of fans in the mainland who co ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-15
In the online journal The Baffler, Kathleen Geier recently attempted a roundup of conservative criticism of Thomas Piketty’s new book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century". The astonishing thing to me ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12
Jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo has received an unlikely support from a group of "princelings", children of China's political elite, who has quietly urged the Communist Party le ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12
Law Society president Lam San-keung is used to making a point but now he's making headlines for something he refuses to say -- at least in English. It is an unwritten rule at Hong Kong press conferenc ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-07
Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, an Indonesian maid allegedly tortured by her Hong Kong employer, has been named by TIME magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential people, Apple Daily reported Friday ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-25
Cohabitation is losing its social stigma with more than 40 percent of Shanghai couples moving in together before marriage, Shanghai Daily reported Wednesday, citing the results of a Fudan University s ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-23
Ni Hao (Hello) ... Zai jian (Goodbye) ... Don’t be surprised if you hear more of these words in Spanish classrooms. Suffering from a weak economy in the past few years, Spain is looking to China fo ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-23
An independent governance group has warned investors to be wary in buying A shares once the Shanghai-Hong Kong share through train is up and running, saying less investor protection in the Chinese equ ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-15
... the creators of an "invisibility cloak" that can make a cat vanish into thin air and a goldfish disappear from a tank. The award -- one of many recognizing a range of silly achievements in science ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-15
AirAsia Berhad, a Malaysian low-cost carrier based in Kuala Lumpur, believes the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines' Flight MH370 will push the commercial aviation industry to strive to further improv ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-03
