Ethiopia expects to open a new Chinese-built railway line linking the capital Addis Ababa with the Red Sea state of Djibouti in early 2016, Reuters reported Wednesday. "By October 2015, a considerable ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-29
... tions for seamen and porters. Several people could share one ticket and they could also bring their own stools into the chamber or even sit on stairs. The London Theatre (now the Chuang's London Plaza ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-26
Hong Kong people have been flocking to the Tai Po seashore to marvel at fluorescent blue patches of water. The glow is a sign of a potential harmful algal bloom, more commonly known as Sea Sparkle, a ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-26
... ng on the Sea of Azov coast indicate further escalation after fighting intensified this month, eradicating a truce signed in September. The rise in violence sparked a flurry of diplomatic activity, wi ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-26
... uth China Sea 7. Taiwan 8. Japan, South Korea, Russian Siberia and Northeast China. Hong Kong has indeed counted several regions as its hinterland in the earlier days. But since its reunification wi ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
... the North Sea oil industry and elsewhere, curbing supply and eventually forcing the price back up. Also in Davos, Italian oil group Eni said the next price spike could be to about US$200 a barrel. Eni ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
... . Rising sea temperatures and pollution from agriculture are believed to be among the biggest threats to its ecosystem. The reef is also facing further pressure from the proposed expansion of ports t ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-21
... rnational sea routes, Israel’s security and geopolitical competition with Russia in Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The US now has more than 20 military bases in six countries in the region (Afghanistan, ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-16
Temple Street (廟街) is a popular hangout for tourists seeking good bargains, cheap knockoffs and seafood restaurants in a lively night-time atmosphere in Hong Kong. The street -- named after a Tin Hau ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-14
... ast China Sea. "The situation around Japan is changing," Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Sunday. "The level of defense spending reflects the amount necessary to protect Japan's air, sea and land an ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-14
Searchers have found the cockpit voice recorder from the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet, Reuters reported Tuesday. Investigators had been waiting for the key piece of evidence to determine the caus ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-13
Indonesian navy divers retrieved one of the two black boxes Monday from an Indonesia AirAsia airliner that crashed into the sea two weeks ago, killing all 162 people on board, a government official sa ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
... lity of a sea route to Europe over the top of Russia. In 2013, China also became a permanent observer at the Arctic Council, the decision-making body for the region. For Greenland and its government, ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
Search teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet detected pings that may show the location of the black box flight recorders, 12 days after the plane went missing with 162 people on boar ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-09
Indoesian officials said on Wednesday that search teams looking for underwater wreckage of the crashed AirAsia passenger jet have located the tail of the aircraft, bolstering hopes for retrieval of th ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-07
Indonesian authorities said on Monday that a naval patrol vessel has found what could be the tail of the AirAsia passenger jet that crashed into the sea on Dec. 28, boosting hopes for retrieval of the ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-06
Bad weather forced Indonesian authorities to conduct underwater search operations for the wreckage of the crashed AirAsia jetliner only briefly on Sunday, with officials also saying that they are yet ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-05
... into the sea off Indonesia on Dec. 28 with 162 people on board. Search teams are still trying to retrieve all the victims, and the black boxes that could tell what happened in its last minutes. In an ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
... years if sea pollution at the Pearl River estuary continued to worsen, the report said. -- Contact us at [email protected] TL/AC/CG ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
Early in 2013, the Philippine government initiated international arbitral proceedings against China over their maritime dispute in the South China Sea. Beijing announced that it would not take part, a ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-31
