... e Italian island of Lampedusa killed hundreds in October 2013. But Italy ended the operation in October 2014. The EU replaced it with much smaller operations run by Frontex, the EU’s border agency, th ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-24
... Huangyan island carried out their duties and managed the relevant waters according to law", Reuters reported. "Recently, many Philippine fishing boats disobeyed China's administration and gathered il ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-23
A mainland woman has boasted of adventure on the high seas as she claimed that she attempted to sail to the Huangyan Island to assert the nation's rights over the territory. Huangyan Island, also know ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-20
Hong Kong's railway operator is facing an angry public after leaks were found in a newly built station of the HK$18.5 billion (US$2.39 billion) West Island Land extension. Water has been dripping in f ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-20
... n Italian island of Lampedusa, as a large merchant ship approached it. A survivor told the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR that 700 people on board, hopeful the ship would save them, moved to one ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-20
Your home may be haunted. That's what some owners of flats in the Siena development at Discovery Bay on Lantau Island were annoyed to be told in a text message recently, the Apple Daily reported Frida ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-17
... e Paracel Islands further north in the South China Sea. It came a day after the US military commander for Asia, Adm.l Samuel Locklear, said China could eventually deploy radar and missile systems on o ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-17
... pport the island's Sunflower student movement. Asserting that they were tortured and that their human rights had been seriously infringed, Li and Chan said they had written to the police on January 19 ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
The outlying island of Cheung Chau topped the Google street view search list over the past year, suggesting it has become one of Hong Kong's most popular sightseeing spots, Apple Daily reported Wednes ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
... ns on the island but the broader US embargo on Cuba will remain in place because only Congress can end it. Iran, Sudan and Syria remain on the list. “We will continue to have differences with the Cuba ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
Beijing must be feeling the pressure from the United States to stop its campaign of turning tiny reefs that it controls in the South China Sea into artificial islands capable of accommodating military ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-14
... Yanggakdo Island outside Pyongyang (foreigners are required by their minders to stay put once on the island) under cover of darkness and bought a bun. He gave the salesman 10 yuan and received an 11,0 ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-14
... unist-run island in the 1960s were first registered by US authorities. Rubio, a son of Cuban immigrants who rode the anti-establishment Tea Party wave of 2010 to national prominence, said voters could ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-14
China on Monday rejected Taiwan’s application to become a founding member of the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank. It said, however,the island is welcome to apply to be a new member after both side ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-13
... Hong Kong Island for new top-tier office buildings, the report said. Authorities aim to create new office space equivalent to the combined floor area at the two IFC buildings, according to the report. ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-13
... ist-ruled island. Obama clearly sees Cuba as a possible success story for his policy of engaging US foes. At a time of multiple risks to his foreign policy record -- from Iran's nuclear program and th ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-13
When officials reopened the airport on sparsely populated Dachangshan Island off China's northeast coast after a US$6 million refurbishment in 2008, they planned to welcome 42,000 passengers in 2010 a ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-10
... man-made island in Osaka Bay, clinched the top spot for its faultless record on baggage. New Kansai International Airport Co., the airport's operator, was commended for the short time it takes for pa ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-09
Some Qingdao residents fell sick after eating watermelons that originated in Wanning in China's southern island province of Hainan, Apple Daily reported Thursday. Seventeen people had to seek hospital ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-02
... of Luzon Island on Sunday, in roughly the same place and with a similar impact as Typhoon Kalmaegi, which made landfall last September and killed 12 people, the Wall Street Journal reported. The US N ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-02
