... t scan. Fewer than 700 cases had been reported by 25 other countries, he said. Dr. Mike Ryan, head of WHO’s emergencies program, said: “The real issue is whether we are seeing efficient community tran ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-18
... ease manpower. They are also required to work extra and overnight shifts. Under normal circumstances, inmates should be off-duty at 5 p.m. But under the new work schedule, they have to put in three mo ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
... azing. If we take a closer look, it’s not difficult to understand why Evergrande customers are willing to make such commitments when the country is grappling with the Covid-19 outbreak. The answer lie ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
Hundreds of people staged protests in multiple districts in Hong Kong over the weekend to oppose government moves designating quarantine centers for suspected novel coronavirus (Covid-19) patients as ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
... ets where we have the right strategies to drive robust returns, and prioritizing global investments that will drive growth in the future of mobility,” especially in electric and autonomous vehicles, c ...More
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... China. However, prominent global health experts argue that restrictive policies such as these, which usually are reserved for life-threatening situations, are unlikely to stop the spread of what the ...More
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... r. “While we look at how to further improve the process, the stepped-up preventive measures apply to all of our servicing channels,” McDonald’s said in a statement to Reuters. Starbucks suggests custo ...More
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... ould also weigh on domestic consumption quite a lot,” said Taro Saito, executive research fellow at NLI Research Institute. “If this epidemic is not contained by the time of the Tokyo Olympic Games, t ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
Online content should be regulated with a system somewhere between the existing rules used for the telecoms and media industries, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Saturday, Reuters reports. Speaki ...More
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... ssure ... We will never yield to America’s pressure and we will not negotiate from a position of weakness,” Rouhani said in a televised news conference in Tehran, Reuters reports. “America’s ‘maximum ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
... e clients were mainly from Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China, the minister said. One of his family members was also confirmed to have the virus. The pair constituted Taiwan’s first local transmissio ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
On Feb. 7, news of the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at the Wuhan Central Hospital who was among the very first to warn of the novel coronavirus, grabbed headlines not only in China but ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
San Francisco-based banking giant Wells Fargo has invested US$5 million in British startup Elliptic, a provider of risk management systems for the cryptocurrency sector. The investment came from Wells ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
... y whether we will have a recession or not. It’s possible, but definitely our economy will take a hit,” Lee Hsien Loong said. “It’s already much more than SARS,” he added, referring to the economic imp ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
... eanwhile, we have also seen a few fraud cases where unscrupulous merchants sold second-hand masks, or failed to deliver the masks after taking the money in advance. Among other reports, one trader is ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
... edicted. “We are prepped and ready for that critical inflection point,” Dyson said. The company, unlike rivals like BT’s EE, said it would give customers access to 5G with no speed caps and at no extr ...More
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... nt said. “We strongly support and encourage the work of US and international aid and health organizations to counter and contain the spread of coronavirus in the DPRK,” spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said ...More
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... Crucially we understand that most of these cases relate to a period going back over days and weeks and are retrospectively reported as cases, sometimes back to the beginning of the outbreak itself,” h ...More
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... mber just weeks after the contract was awarded to Microsoft. Trump has publicly derided Amazon head Jeff Bezos and repeatedly criticized the company. Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith issued a preliminary ...More
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