... sweeping sea view, Béthanie was an ideal restorative facility for sick French priests and missionaries to recover from tropical diseases back then. Béthanie and the nearby Dairy Farm cowsheds were le ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-20
... k on deep-sea fishing. On the first day of his trip to Hong Kong, he saw the same fish as those being sold in the market swimming in a dirty river, which was later identified by some netizens as Ng Tu ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-20
The United States has urged China to reaffirm that the country has no plans to deploy military aircraft in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. The comments Tuesday came two days after Beijing ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-20
A ruling expected in the next few months in an international arbitration case the Philippines has brought against Beijing's South China Sea claims must be binding, Britain said on Monday. British Fore ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-19
China failed last week to pressure Japan and other G7 countries into not discussing the South China Sea when the group met in Hiroshima. Instead, foreign ministers from the seven countries issued a jo ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-18
A Chinese military aircraft has for the first time landed at a new airport on an island China has built in a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea, state media said Monday. The incident raises t ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-18
... h two Red Sea islands ceded to it by Saudi Arabia in 1950. The move exposed the Egyptian leadership’s narrative that the country remains a major regional power as a lie. Indeed, Egypt cannot even hand ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-18
China's South China Sea fleets have conducted training drills with upgraded methods that resemble actual combat conditions to increase the fleets' combat effectiveness, Reuters reports, citing an arti ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-18
... uth China Sea. Any picture you capture will find the sky and the sea almost blending their blue. Going down the path, I was soon greeted by Tortoise Rock. The rock formation appears like a huge turtle ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-15
The United States is stationing warplanes in the Philippines in response to Beijing’s assertiveness in the South China Sea, the Wall Street Journal reported. The US and the Philippines began joint pat ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-15
Russian warplanes flew simulated attack passes near a US guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday, according to the US military. One official described them as one of the most aggressive ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-14
... uth China Sea issues. In March, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi publicly accused Japan of “double dealing”, saying that Japan on one hand proclaims “nice things about wanting to improve relations” bu ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-11
... on. Dried seafood retailers from Des Voeux Road West gather at Hop Lee Ho, where boxes of salted fish of different species, origins and quantities are stacked on top of each other. After inspecting th ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-08
... he Yellow Sea in 1886 was Li Lianying (李蓮英), a eunuch close to Empress Dowager Cixi (慈禧). No wonder China suffered a crushing defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War eight years later. It is said that m ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-08
... looted by sea pirates near Malaysia. He wrote that he would send her a parcel with all his savings, 295,000 pounds (US$414,500), in it and said he hoped she would keep it safe for him. Yung then gave ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-08
... uth China Sea in May 2014, triggering an uproar in Vietnam. Anti-Chinese riots broke out in several parts of the country at the time, while Chinese and Vietnamese coast guard and fishing vessels stood ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-08
... ng “land, sea and air forces”, arguing that it seems to be in direct contradiction with the existence of the country’s Self-Defense Forces. At a glance, Abe’s proposal seems deeply unpopular. Accordin ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-07
Photos of Hong Kong tourists showing off what they caught in Andaman Sea in Thailand triggered an uproar on social media after they were accused of illegal fishing in the Similan National Park, a top ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-06
... the cross-sea bridge would require up to HK$100.9 million in management fee for the 2016-2017 financial year, and a team of 123 people from the Highways Department to oversee the project. The informat ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-06
... uth China Sea drive countries to take tougher action to defend their maritime sovereignty, the Wall Street Journal reported. Maritime and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti said her office used explo ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-06
