EJ Insight Pictures 04

The Hong Kong government has been trying to rein in soaring home prices since 2009. However, its efforts, including adopting increasingly stringent measures, have failed to cool down the red-hot market. The Centa-City Leading...

US President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, paid a secret visit to Pyongyang over the Easter weekend to hammer out details of a planned summit between Trump and North Korean...

The Boao Forum for Asia event this year, which drew about 2,000 international guests, including six foreign heads of state, drew to a close in Boao in China’s island province of Hainan on April 11....

Cuba’s new leader Miguel Diaz-Canel began his term on Thursday with a vow to defend the Castro socialist revolutionary legacy while also outlining the need to modernize the island’s economy. “The mandate given by...

The bronze statue of a little girl that became a tourism phenomenon by staring down Wall Street’s massive “Charging Bull” sculpture is to be moved to a nearby spot where its stern gaze will...

North Korea has expressed its commitment to “complete denuclearization” of the Korean peninsula and has not attached conditions, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in said. Moon said agreements about denuclearization, establishing a peace regime and...

China has conducted live-fire military drills along its southeast coast after increasingly stern warnings by Beijing for neighboring Taiwan to toe the line, but the exercises were more low key than had been flagged...

The Belarusian government, as I mentioned in a previous article, had recently changed the official Chinese translation of the country’s name. The move has aroused widespread suspicions that it could have been part of Minsk’s...

2018 will be a milestone in the application of Artificial intelligence (AI), according to Gartner. By 2020, 20 percent of citizens in developed economies are expected to use AI to help them make daily...

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said gene-editing technologies that alter mosquitoes’ DNA could prove critical in the fight against malaria, adding that ethical concerns should not block progress in such research. Speaking at the Malaria Forum...