... nlike the two previous global recessions this century, the new coronavirus (Covid-19) implies a supply shock as well as a demand shock. Indeed, one has to go back to the oil-supply shocks of the mid-1 ...More
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... evision Network, China Radio International and China Daily Distribution Corp. at 100 from 160 currently. Beijing’s UN ambassador said the move was not “appropriate”. China last month revoked the visas ...More
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... uccessor. Two of Welch’s other top disciples – and Immelt rivals – left GE to head other major companies, helping spread Welch’s gospel: Jim McNerney at Boeing Co. and Bob Nardelli at Chrysler and Hom ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-03
... previous two in Washington state. Eight of the 14 total cases in his jurisdiction are linked to an outbreak at a nursing facility in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland, including four deaths, Duchin said ...More
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... signating two public housing estates as quarantine centers, only days after the chief executive pledged that she wouldn’t use any new public housing estates for such purpose. As Lam went back on her w ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-02
... wing day, two things happened: the data was shared with the WHO and the Shanghai lab was ordered to close “for rectification”. It apparently remains closed. Thus, in the early weeks, while the disease ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-02
... lth said. Two of the newly confirmed cases are associated with the cluster related to the Buddhist temple Fook Wai Ching She on Shu Kuk Street in North Point. One is a 46-year-old woman (the 95th case ...More
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Clashes erupted in multiple districts in Hong Kong over the weekend, as citizens took to the streets to vent their anger over two issues -- police conduct during last year's anti-government protests a ...More
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... rved four two-year terms as mayor of Burlington, in the northeastern US state of Vermont, and was credited for implementing extensive revitalization projects in the city's downtown area. He served as ...More
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Two more Chinese cities that rely heavily on car manufacturing plan to offer incentives to bolster auto sales, which have been hit by the fallout from the spread of the coronavirus, Reuters reports. I ...More
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... age, with two terms as mayor of a small Midwestern city as the chief item on his political resume. But his campaign invested heavily in rural and Trump-leaning counties in Iowa in the hope that a win ...More
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... confirmed two other cases and locked down a long-term care facility where a resident and a worker also tested positive for coronavirus and 50 residents and staff are showing symptoms. About 70 cases h ...More
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... subsidies two years ago. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Feb 27 Translation by Alan Lee with additional reporting [Chinese version 中文版] – Contact us at [email protected] JC/C ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
US job openings dropped to a two-year low in December, with most sectors and regions pointing in the same direction. Retail and transportation were particularly affected, accounting for 40 percent of ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) under the Department of Health said two more people tested positive for novel coronavirus (Covid-19) infection, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the cit ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
... et if the two items cannot be handled separately. Lawmaker Wu Chi-wai, chairman of the Democratic Party, said since the cash handout will not benefit those under 18 and as the budget planned for the p ...More
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Publishing magnate Jimmy Lai Chee-Ying and two other pro-democracy activists were arrested by police on Friday on charges of illegal assembly. Lai, a self-made millionaire who has been a major financi ...More
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... soldiers, two Turkish officials told Reuters. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, supported by relentless Russian airstrikes, have pushed hard in recent months to retake the last large rebel-he ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
... more than two-thirds of US economic activity, slowed to a 1.7 percent pace in the fourth quarter, instead of the previously reported 1.8 percent rate. A decline in imports in the fourth quarter, in p ...More
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