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
Canada-listed Husky Energy Inc., a unit of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. (00013.HK), plans to make its Gaolan onshore gas plant -- part of the South China Sea Liwan gas project -- a regional hub for future p ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-02
Unthinkable just a year ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping won a promise from the European Union on Monday to consider a multi-billion-dollar free-trade deal. Xi, the first Chinese leader to visit Euro ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-01
Erin Hunter is looking for the answer to the big question Mark Zuckerberg is asking. As Facebook's global head of marketing for fast-moving consumer goods, part of Hunter's job is to work out ways ads ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-31
Expect competition in the handset sector to intensify further this year as players launch state-of-the-art models for the fourth-generation wireless telecommunications technology. Handset maker Coolpa ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-24
China's central bank has hinted that it is willing to accept some debt defaults in the US$1.8 trillion wealth management market, Shanghai Daily reported Monday. People’s Bank of China deputy governor ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-24
Handset maker Coolpad Group Ltd. (02369.HK) aims to sail past Lenovo Group Ltd. (00992.HK) to be second in smartphone shipments in China and in the top five worldwide this year, according to top manag ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-21
A vice chairman of Macau casino operator Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd. (00027.HK) hinted Wednesday at possible expansion into Japan, saying he is keen to know when a gaming law will pass in the coun ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-19
