This week marks the beginning of the fifth straight month of protests in Hong Kong. A million-person march on June 9 was focused on opposing the government’s extradition bill and that goal was finally ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-08
Globalization has gotten a bad rap in recent years, and often for good reason. But some critics, not least US President Donald Trump, place the blame in the wrong place, conjuring up a false image in ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-08
On Oct. 18, the government of Zhuhai will auction a large plot of land near the bridge to Hong Kong with a minimum price of 5.64 billion yuan (US$790 million). The land will be used to build a large h ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-08
... onlookers. Many Hongkongers say police have used excessive force against protesters – some of them school students and young adults – and want an independent inquiry into police action. Police arrive ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-08
Hong Kong Stock Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) said on Tuesday that it has dropped its US$39 billion bid to acquire London Stock Exchange Group (LSE). In a statement, Hong Kong's stock market operator ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-08
The US Commerce Department put 28 Chinese public security bureaus and companies, including video surveillance company Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd. (002415.CN), on a US trade blacklis ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-08
... rs reports. In London, police arrested 276 activists from the Extinction Rebellion group as they blocked bridges and roads in the city center, and glued themselves to cars, while protesters in Berlin ...More
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... heir faces. Police fired tear gas before charging at protesters, using batons and pepper spray to subdue them. Protesters set barricades on fire, and threw bricks and petrol bombs at the police. The r ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-06
... o stations. The MTR system stayed shut for the day, paralyzing transport in the city, while supermarkets and banks were closed. Friday’s protests across the territory erupted hours after Lam invoked c ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-05
... tomization. Amid this backdrop, Dayta AI, a Hong Kong-based AI technology startup, is focusing on tailor-made AI solutions for enterprises. The company's co-founder and CEO Patrick Tu recently sat dow ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-04
... he station. After night fell, some people showed up at a Maxim’s store in Kornhill Plaza, which lies close to the train station, to show their displeasure at the food chain’s pro-Beijing stance, given ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-04
The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act has been cleared by the foreign relations panels of the US Senate and House of Representatives, and is set to be put to a vote in Congress shortly. I don't ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-04
Ride-hailing giant Uber is launching an app that connects gig workers with businesses that need temporary staff, leveraging on its access to a large pool of independent contractors. Uber Works, curren ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-04
Tiffany & Co. is sending more of its priciest jewelry to mainland China to reach consumers kept at home by a weak currency, chief executive Alessandro Bogliolo said. “We follow our customers where ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-04
... rs reports. The Republican president said he believed both China and Ukraine should look into 2020 presidential hopeful Biden and his businessman son Hunter, and described the impeachment probe as “cr ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-04
... n Thursday. The city is also expected to ban face masks under a colonial-era emergency law that has not been used in half a century, media reported. The loosening of restrictions on the use of force c ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-03
... day before. The 18-year-old Secondary Five student, who was shot in the chest at close range by a police officer in Tsuen Wan on Tuesday, has been charged with rioting and assaulting police, the Hong ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-03
Malaysia’s competition regulator on Thursday proposed a fine of over 86 million ringgit (US$20.53 million) on ride-hailing firm Grab for violating the country’s competition law by imposing restrictive ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-03
While many US companies have been doing business in China for decades, it was only early this year that the Chinese government opened its market for local payment services to foreign firms. PayPal, on ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-03
In case you blinked, the Argentine government built up a pile of debt out of almost nothing with surprising speed, and then proceeded to default on it almost as quickly. Compared to the country’s slow ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-03
