Critics of incentives for electric vehicles (EVs) often scornfully say that the government shouldn’t be giving handouts to “rich men” and their “toys” since the only EVs that had been seeing any signi ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-06
Syria's army says it has recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra from Islamic State for the second time in a year, with help from allied forces and Russian warplanes. "With backing from the Syrian and ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-03
US President Donald Trump told Congress he was open to immigration reform, shifting from his harsh rhetoric on illegal immigration in a speech that offered a more restrained tone than his election cam ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-01
US Republican Senator Marco Rubio, his partymate Tom Cotton and Democratic Senator Ben Cardin have jointly reintroduced the “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act” to Congress, a move that might pr ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-01
In democratic countries governed by the system of “checks and balances” like the US, the mainstream media is often referred to as the “fourth branch of power”, while the White House is often known as ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-28
Verizon Communications Inc. said it would buy Yahoo Inc.'s core business for US$4.48 billion, lowering its original offer by US$350 million in the wake of two massive cyber attacks at the internet com ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-22
Sukhumvit Soi 38, a renowned night food market in Bangkok, no longer exists but it lives on in Hong Kong in a vibrant eatery in North Point. SOI. 38, located in City Garden Road, boasts authentic Thai ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-10
Airbus Group plans to test a prototype for a self-piloted flying car by the end of the year as a way of avoiding gridlock on city roads. Airbus last year formed a division called Urban Air Mobility t ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-17
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in Honduras on Sunday for a closely watched four-nation Central American visit but, in China at least, there was much more interest in her stopovers in the Unit ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-09
The United States, supposedly the world's beacon of democracy, is practicing a strange form of it nowadays. One presidential candidate won nearly three million more votes than her opponent, who, with ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-29
US billionaire Bill Gates has teamed up with other business leaders, including Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma, to launch a US$1 billion clean-technology fund. The fund, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, wi ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-13
Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, who has spent more than US$140 million to fight climate change, will do whatever it takes to oppose President-elect Donald Trump's pro-drilling and anti- ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-16
Four of Australia’s wealthiest farming barons are joining forces to prevent Chinese investors from buying S. Kidman & Co., the country’s largest cattle farm. The BBHO consortium comprising the fa ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-24
The Wang Chau saga is a cross between Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Animal Farm. The goings-on of Leung Chun-ying’s government demand a deeply credulous population. When people, whether governm ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-27
Actress Angelina Jolie has filed for a divorce from actor Brad Pitt, her husband of two years and romantic partner since 2005. "This decision was made for the health of the family. She will not be com ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-21
The United States has launched a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint against Chinese subsidies for domestic wheat, rice and corn growers. Washington is alleging state support for these farmers ex ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-14
A nearly four-hour long movie about a woman's thirst for revenge and her feelings of forgiveness after 30 years in jail for a crime she did not commit has won the Venice Film Festival's top prize, Reu ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-12
Donald Trump's original nominees to his economic council included some 15 names of which only two are economists. Commentators were swift to press the point that this group was an all-male affair, and ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-19
US regulators paved the way for a lightning-fast next generation of wireless services in a move, making the United States the first country to set aside an ample amount of airwaves for so-called 5G wi ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-15
Beer is an absolute necessity for some sports fans. They wash their excitement down with it or toast their favorite teams in all its frothy glory. Euro Cup and Olympics diehards, for instance, can har ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-08
