... ule, Chan may be facing another, even more daunting, task in the coming days: how to minimize the fiscal deficits of the government. According to a government source, the government could effectively ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
... ng sector may be spilling over to the rest of the economy, and will eventually drive the unemployment rate higher. An alternative view, one that we share, is that the drop in job openings reflects in ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
... in China may slow. As we watch the situation unfold, three broader risks to the global economy are also becoming more apparent. The first risk is obviously in China itself. While the precise origins ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
Baidu Inc., China’s biggest search engine company, said first-quarter revenue could fall as much as 13 percent from a year earlier as the coronavirus epidemic puts the brakes on economic activity and ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
... ald Trump may hold a phone call to discuss Idlib after the attack on Turkish soldiers, two Turkish officials told Reuters. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, supported by relentless Russian ai ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
... C said in May 2018 it was investigating reports that a website flaw could have allowed the location of mobile phone customers to be tracked. That probe expanded into other uses of consumers’ location ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
... a vaccine may take up to 18 months to develop. Misinformation 'epidemic' Iran extended closures of cinemas, cultural events and conferences for another week and called off Friday prayers in some citie ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
... indicated may cause unnecessary cost, procurement burden and create a false sense of security that can lead to neglecting other essential measures such as hand hygiene practices,” the WHO said in a ge ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-27
... e, but it may take some time before the money can be disbursed because the proposal, along with other items in the latest budget, will have to be scrutinized by the Legislative Council. The 2020-21 Ap ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-27
... New York Mayor Bill de Blasio urged the federal government to tighten testing for visitors from a range of countries where the virus has been spreading, adding that its eventual detection in the city ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-27
... rend that may be mirrored in other affected countries as the virus spreads. The economic effects of this shift – including changes in Chinese demand for travel, tourism services, and luxury goods – wi ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-27
... e made in May was not the IOC’s official stance. – Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-27
... d that it may not be able to meet its March-quarter sales forecast. The software maker had previously expected the More Personal Computing unit, which houses Windows, to post third-quarter revenue bet ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-27
... Tomorrow may impose a heavy burden on public finances,” Chan said. “In this regard, the government has all along been implementing a stringent audit and monitoring mechanism for the approval of fundi ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-26
... ty, which may incorporate renovations to abandoned warehouse and workshop structures on the site, is expected to provide 130 new jobs, according to Musk. As designed, the Starship itself is actually t ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-26
... ubarak or mayhem. Many believed him, not just in Egypt. US administrations showered him – and the biggest army in the Middle East – with billions of dollars in gratitude for his loyalty to Sadat’s Col ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-26
... countries may find it hard to impose strict lockdowns like China does, the situation is quite worrying, particularly in underdeveloped nations. Gabriel Leung, dean of the faculty of medicine at the Un ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
... said they may cut back joint training due to the virus, in one of the first concrete signs of its fallout on global US military activities. The disclosure came during a visit to the Pentagon on Monday ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
... base who may not want, or be able, to switch everything online. Banks must maintain a fine balance between developing new, virtual banking offerings and updating their current bricks and mortar opera ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25