Relatives of passengers on a missing AirAsia plane wept as they watched Indonesian searchers on television pulling bodies and wreckage from the sea off the coast of Borneo Tuesday, Reuters reported. I ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-31
... uring the search operation, was quoted by the Kompas.com website as saying. "The debris is red and white," Djoko Murjatmodjo, acting director general of air transportation at the transportation minist ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
A missing AirAsia jet carrying 162 people likely crashed off the Indonesian coast and could be at the bottom of the sea. "Based on our coordinates, we expect it is in the sea, so for now [we think] it ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-29
... nd rising sea levels. While these future costs cannot be predicted with precision, recent estimates put the current social cost of each added ton of atmospheric CO2 at US$10-100, with the US governme ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-29
Even before the West Island Line extension of the MRT opens on Dec. 28, Kennedy Town, which the new line will link to Sheung Wan district, has been experiencing a sea change. With their eye on the fre ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-24
... along the sea route. The ambitious initiative looks set to benefit the infrastructure sector, railways in particular. The One Belt, One Road plan would enable China to open up new markets and tackle t ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
... ce of the sea and in satellite measurements of the troposphere. But the reason it has occurred is not that our greenhouse-gas emissions are no longer changing the earth’s climate; it is that surface t ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
... s the Red Sea into the Mediterranean, with a stop in Athens before meeting the land-based Silk Road in Venice. The ambitious plan will have various benefits for China strategically, Yiu said. And it w ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-19
... nd rising sea levels. Some environmental groups, however, said the deal, reached at a tent city on a military base in the Peruvian capital, was far too weak. "We went from weak to weaker to weakest," ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-15
... of oil research at Societe Generale S.A. in New York, said by phone. WTI for January delivery dropped 99 cents to close at US$59.95 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It was the lowest se ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-12
... ied about sea-level gains as well as other countries facing climate extremes want to limit the average surface temperature of the globe to no more than a degree or 1.5 degrees celsius over pre-industr ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-11
... apparent sea change in Beijing's thinking. On the mainland, the focus remains on economic development. Truly making it "a better place" will entail improvements in aspects like human rights, democr ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-10
... credible sea-based nuclear deterrent," the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission was quoted as saying in a recent report. The submarines are expected to initially confine themselves to Ch ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-09
... British research firm Maplecroft ranks the Philippines second to Japan for being at-risk from tropical storms. Hagupit was expected to be 107 kilometers o Manila on Monday night before crossing into t ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
... due to be sealed in Paris at the end of next year. Meanwhile, British government scientists said humans are likely to be responsible for the elevated temperatures. “We would not be breaking these reco ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-04
A couple of weeks ago, IHS Jane’s, a leading British publishing company specializing in military topics, reported that China was reclaiming land at Fiery Cross Reef in the South China Sea and was tran ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
... i mayoral seat. The loss of Taipei, traditionally a KMT stronghold, was the bitterest blow. The KMT candidate, Sean Lian, was son of Lian Chan, a former vice-president and a very wealthy man. The resu ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
... uth China Sea. Beijing's naval superiority has rattled the region. "We should be worried the way we have run down our submarine fleet," said Arun Prakash, former chief of the Indian navy. "But with Ch ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-03
... he Bering Sea while catching pollock, a popular fish in South Korea. Sajo Industries Co. Ltd., the Seoul-based operator of the ship, said that of 60 people on board, one Russian inspector, three Indon ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-02
... uth China Sea has resulted in a series of counter-alliances around Asia. Xi took a slightly more conciliatory tone in a foreign policy speech carried in official media on Saturday night but still vowe ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-01
