... anquet bookings at restaurants in the Year of the Sheep are reportedly as poor as in the aftermath of the financial tsunami, because of cautious spending amid antigraft sentiment spilling over from th ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-12
... he "party king". If found guilty, he could face up to 10 years in jail and a 1.5 million euro (US$1.7 million) fine. It is the latest sex-related allegation against Strauss-Kahn, who stepped down from ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-11
Jordan's King Abdullah pledged a "relentless" war against Islamic State after a video from the militants showed a captured Jordanian air force pilot being burned alive in a cage, Reuters reported. Jor ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-05
Jordan is vowing an "earth-shaking response" after Islamist militants released a video on Tuesday appearing to show a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage. A Jordanian official said t ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-04
... England. King John agreed to sign it to appease rebel barons in the heat of battle. It is considered one of the first steps toward parliamentary democracy and includes the principle that no one is ab ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-03
... the time. King's Road Playground next to the new Customs headquarters is witness to Hong Kong’s volatile past. The site was a refugee camp during World War II and was converted into a large prisoner c ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-30
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo admitted that one of its greatest treasures, King Tutankhamun's mask, had been crudely glued back together after being damaged, but insisted the golden mask could be resto ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-26
... the "good king mentality". If we look back on the ancient history of China, we can always notice a striking pattern, in which emperors who founded a new dynasty were often intelligent and powerful lea ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-26
... Jordan’s King Abdullah about the hostage situation, part of a flurry of calls in which Japan has sought the help of better-connected foreign leaders. The Japanese leader condemned the killing of Yuka ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-26
... Yuen Wai King Kindergarten in Yuen Long said it received over 1,000 applications for its 120 places this year. Around 20 percent of the students admitted are cross-border children, the school said. T ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah died early on Friday and the royal court said his brother Salman will succeed him. King Salman named his half-brother Muqrin as his crown prince and heir, Reuters reported ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
... aid. Au King-chi, Permanent Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, said the government received 33 responses in the first round of consultation in which it gave five proposals. These inc ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
To commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth anniversary on Monday, Chinese internet heavyweight Tencent Holdings Ltd. designed a function that allowed WeChat app users who sent a message with the En ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-20
... ddie Kwan King-hung said he welcomed the government’s proposals, as eligible applicants can now increase their chances of success by matching their occupations to the government’s wish list. Kwan sai ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
... ory. Chan King-cheung, Hong Kong Economic Journal's former deputy publisher, noted in an essay commemorating HKEJ’s 40th anniversary that "the most noticeable change within the past decades is the eme ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-15
... ugural ranking of the wealthiest Chinese investors with a personal fortune estimated at US$4.5 billion, according to the Financial Times. Club Med joins Fosun’s growing stable of overseas assets. In ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-13
... ng and kicking a handcuffed Occupy Central protester. As with all commercial entities, the management of a media organization has absolute power when it comes to personnel changes, and the boss does n ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
... Jordan's King Abdullah II, joined the start of the Paris march, linking arms in an act of solidarity. Demonstrating unity after the attacks on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, police officers, and a ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
... ndent Chu King-wai, the Sha Tin police division commander, during the clearing operation at the Mong Kok protest site in late November last year. Ken Tsang described the report as ridiculous. "The go ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-07
... ng Kong's king of snacks. Lam is founder and chairman of CEC International (00759.HK). He used to run a factory that counted Nokia as one of its clients. When the 2008 global financial crisis struck, ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-31
