... at least two weeks, making the restaurant chain the first among peers in Hong Kong to limit dine-in amid the Covid-19 pandemic. During the restriction period, people would still be able use the resta ...More
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... or almost two months but took in just 30,000 yuan on Saturday, local media reported. Retail sales in the world’s second-largest economy shrank by a fifth in January-February from the same period a yea ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-25
... buy only two units for each iPhone model on Apple online stores in the US, China, Hong Kong and Europe. But Apple dropped the arrangement on Tuesday as all of its retail stores outside the Greater Ch ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-25
The shock to the global economy from COVID-19 has been both faster and more severe than the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) and even the Great Depression. In those two previous episodes, stock mark ...More
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... the first two months. China Unicom, meanwhile, lost 1.08 million users in January alone. In all, the three wireless carriers together lost roughly over 14 million mobile users in the first two months ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-25
... the next two or three weeks, Governor Ned Lamont said. “We thought it might get worse before it gets better and I’m afraid that we are right,” Lamont told a news briefing. There were signs that nerve ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-25
... be about two weeks behind Italy in the outbreak cycle, on Tuesday began curbs on movement without precedent in peacetime after Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered the country to stay at home. The st ...More
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... st nearly two-thirds of their value so far in 2020. Data on Monday showed US business activity hit a record low in March, bolstering expert views that the economy was already in a recession. Traders w ...More
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... century’s two world wars. Cold War boycotts also disrupted the Moscow and Los Angeles Olympics in 1980 and 1984. The postponement leaves big question marks over the appeal and viability of the Olympic ...More
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... ic,” then two weeks later, “I anticipated this pandemic long before it was a pandemic.” Patting himself on the back, he claimed, “I’m doing really well.” But there will be no treatment for 25 percent ...More
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... n said, a two-fold increase from Sunday. Of the new cases, 74 were imported infections, up from 39 imported cases a day earlier. Beijing was the hardest-hit, with a record 31 new imported cases, follo ...More
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... history, two are co-workers of a man confirmed as a patient earlier and having links to a restaurant on Hollywood Road. In related developments, Now TV News said on Monday that it has evacuated its W ...More
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... the past two weeks also face 14 days of quarantine, Chief Executive Ho Iat-seng said on Tuesday. “The government assures all Macau citizens it will do a good job in epidemic prevention at any cost,” ...More
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... y move in two or three days is going to take twice as long – you have to still get it through the airport, you have put it on a truck and get it through borders,” Esa said. One European supplier of ac ...More
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... or nearly two hours, amid growing criticism that the world’s “fire station” has been slow to respond to the worsening crisis. G20 leaders are due to gather for an extraordinary virtual summit in the c ...More
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... more than two people in public who do not live together, and stop all social events, including weddings and baptisms but not funerals. Parks would remain open for exercise but gatherings would be dis ...More
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... ed. Also, two Republican US senators came under criticism last week for selling large amounts of stock before the coronavirus-induced market meltdown and after closed-door briefings on the coronavirus ...More
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... ivals for two weeks starting Wednesday. Meanwhile, all people including Hong Kong residents entering Hong Kong from Macau and Taiwan will have to go into mandatory 14-day quarantine from Wednesday onw ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-23
... d news of two well-known restaurants downing their shutters, albeit temporarily, due to the Covid-19 crisis, fueling animated chatter on social media as to what lies ahead for the sector. One of the ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-23
... teria for two programs under the Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) and one under the Hong Kong Productivity Council, which support private sector R&D efforts. In his budget last month, Financia ...More
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