... plete at least a high school education. UNESCO recently calculated the global education “financing gap” to cover the incremental costs – classrooms, teachers and supplies – of universal completion of ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-01
... 67 Middle East war and agreed to a "just solution" for Palestinian refugees. In 2013, after the initiative's terms were softened to include possible land swaps between Israel and the Palestinians, Net ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-31
... posing an East Coast-style park in North Point, linking pedestrian walks, Victoria Park and the Eastern Corridor over three kilometers. Ivan Ho, a member of the Harborfront Commission, said the plans ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-30
Sharp Peak, High Junk Peak and Tai Yue Ngam Teng are nicknamed the "three treacherous peaks of Sai Kung". Situated in the northeastern part of the Sai Kung East Country Park and rising to a height of ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-27
... he Middle East by 12,000 kilometers and give the country access to the Indian Ocean, where it would be able to challenge India from India’s own maritime backyard. Xi also signed deals for new power pr ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-27
... he Middle East and Africa, and the remainder heading to Asian accounts. The sale comes amid a broader push from China for the yuan to take on a more significant role in global financial markets as Bei ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-27
... Sha Tsui East store was a heart-wrenching one for many loyal followers who have been making regular visits to the establishment just to see the cat, which was often seen taking cozy naps. Tsim Tung B ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-26
... rritories East in February, that person allegedly forwarded messages on Facebook urging her friends to vote for Edward Leung Tin-kei, the candidate representing Hong Kong Indigenous. That person was n ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-24
... dden rock east of the Pearl River estuary as the crown prize in 1841 following the First Opium War. That was how Hong Kong's colonial history began. Records of that era show that Elliot's choice of Ho ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-20
... along the Eastern Corridor and the Eastern Harbour Crossing after police shut down major road junctions. Motorists and passengers in Island East district and East Kowloon complained about the severe c ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-19
... have at least started to address the problem. They have attempted to raise retirement ages, so pension systems become better financed. In some western countries, immigration will help prevent a decli ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-19
Passengers on the MTR’s South Island Line (East) (SIL(E)) can expect to pay between HK$5.20 (67 US cents) and HK$8 for a journey within Hong Kong Island when the line starts operating by the end of th ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-18
... mate (at least in his own mind) dealmaker. But the “art of the deal” that he seems to have in mind for the US apparently takes the word “art” literally. His vision of US economic and financial relatio ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-18
... o one-way eastbound and to one-way westbound from 7 a.m. on Tuesday to noon on Thursday. This section of the road will be intermittently closed if necessary, police said. Expo Drive, Expo Drive Centra ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-16
... es in the East and South China seas, Yang was quoted as saying. "China follows a national defense policy that is defensive in nature," Yang said, adding that the country's military build-up and reform ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-16
... o Man Tin East Service Reservoir Playground. On the natural turf pitches, one can no longer see any "dangerous path". Off the coast of old Castle Peak Bay in Tuen Mun, there has been a similar story o ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-13
... ted atoll east of the Bashi Channel. The crew was allowed to leave after paying a fine of NT$1.76 million (US$54,254). Such an incident is usually not a big deal as similar arrests and releases had oc ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-10
Improving conditions at home and weakening demand for imported labor in places like the Middle East have begun to reverse a Philippine brain drain. Since the 1970s, Filipinos by the millions have left ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-03
... south of East Point and west of Causeway Bay (now Lee Garden Road), and not the Mount Parker Cable Car. First, Wu passed away one year after the operation of the cable car. It was quite impossible fo ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-29
... d see the East in an eastern way. This is the challenge, and one I truly believe that we at SSRSC can rise to. There will always be those who shirk from tough challenges, but they have no place in th ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-29
