The shores of tourist resort Lake Garda may seem like an unlikely place to make nylon. But it’s here that an Italian company, Aquafil, discovered a way to take discarded carpeting, clothing and fishi ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-04
Examination of a key piece of debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 suggests that the aircraft was most likely in a steep dive when it plunged into the ocean, with the wing flaps in a r ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-03
A female giant panda, which had been one of the top attractions in Ocean Park since 1999, was euthanized on Sunday after her health condition worsened rapidly due to multiple chronic diseases. Jia Jia ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-17
China’s two biggest state-owned shipping companies plan to merge 11 shipbuilding yards into a single entity in one of the industry’s biggest consolidation moves yet, the Wall Street Journal reports, c ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-06
Last month, US President Barack Obama was in Hangzhou for a G-20 meeting and, while there, held what is likely to be his last substantive bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two men ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-03
It was a wondrous sight, a four-meter-long whale shark swimming gracefully in waters off Sai Kung. But just a day after the video clip was published on social media and brought cheer to local netizens ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-08
A large whale shark was spotted in Hong Kong waters earlier this week, according to a video clip doing the rounds on social media. On Tuesday, a man posted footage of what he claimed was a four-meter ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-07
Animal rescuers picked up nearly 250 red-eared slider turtles off a beach in Tsuen Wan on Sunday, saving them from possible death, after receiving an alert that a family had released the creatures int ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-29
The pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had plotted a flight path into the Indian Ocean, but it is only one of thousands of routes that were on his home simulator, a top Malaysian official s ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-05
The hunt for monsters continues unabated, more than a week after Pokemon GO landed in Hong Kong. And it looks like the online craze is hooking up strangers and turning them into friends. Nearly three ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-03
Paul Reichler, a well-respected practitioner of public international law, was the lead counsel for Manila when an ad hoc international tribunal rejected Beijing’s claims to disputed waters in the Sout ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
Asia is on the cusp of a theme park boom. Shanghai Disneyland opened in June, Wanda City opened in May and 14 more Wanda theme parks are set to open by 2020. And by 2018 Universal Beijing, 21st Cent ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-18
Hong Kong has seen significant capital inflows as international investors sought out safe-havens and high-dividend plays amid an uncertain global macro environment. As a result, REITs and some risk-o ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-12
Ocean Park, Hong Kong's popular marine-themed tourist attraction, has rejected accusations that it sought to keep a child-related escalator accident under wraps by paying hush money to the victim's fa ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-04
The city is still grieving over the two firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty, Senior Station Officer Thomas Cheung and Senior Fireman Samuel Hui. Condolences continue to pour in for t ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-28
What should have been a joyful celebration at Ocean Park turned into mourning after a newborn dolphin lived for only a few minutes. The baby dolphin was born to a 15-year-old bottlenose dolphin on Wed ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-23
