... a tailspin. Trump announced the travel ban on live television along with emergency funds to boost the US economy, saying: “This is not a financial crisis. This is just a temporary moment of time that ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-12
The National Basketball Association (NBA) said it is suspending the season until further notice after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for the coronavirus, Reuters reports. The test result was repor ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-12
Social media app TikTok is launching a content moderation center in a bid to boost transparency, taking the initiative as it faces scrutiny from US lawmakers over security and data privacy issues. The ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-12
... rs reports. Fellow OPEC member, the United Arab Emirates, followed suit by pledging to accelerate its plans to increase capacity. Oil prices have almost halved since January after the collapse of a pa ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-12
... gatherings. The virus sent the Dow into a bear market for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis as the massive financial stimulus promised by governments around the globe failed to reassure i ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-12
... #MeToo era. The sentence was handed down on Wednesday in Manhattan criminal court by Justice James Burke, with Weinstein’s lawyer Donna Rotunno afterward denouncing the prison term as “obscene” and “c ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-12
Hong Kong has survived through the intense social turmoil and conflicts that spanned the entire second half of 2019. As the protests crisis waned, the city now faces fresh uncertainty in relation to t ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-11
... House bid. Biden, the former vice president under Barack Obama, also captured Missouri and Mississippi on a day when six states made their choices in the race to pick a challenger to Republican Presi ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-11
... of a deal. The rise in the number of US cases of Covid-19 has concerned health officials and spurred calls within Congress for action to expand testing and avert an economic meltdown. Almost three-qu ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-11
... rs reports. Alipay traditionally competes against Tencent Holding’s (00700.HK) WeChat pay in China for mobile payments and financial services, with users using both apps daily for tasks such as paying ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-11
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defeated his first party rebellion over a government decision to allow Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to have a role in building the country's 5G phone network, Reut ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-11
Saudi Arabia said it will boost its oil supplies to a record high in April, raising the stakes in a standoff with Russia and effectively rebuffing Moscow’s suggestion for new talks, Reuters reports. T ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-11
... rs reports. Weinstein, 67, faces up to 29 years in prison after being found guilty of sexually assaulting former production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006 and raping former aspiring actress Jessica Man ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-10
... rts brands. In two years since its launch, the firm has gained traction in business, with clients from Europe, North America and Asia. It decided to relocate to the United States after realizing that ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-10
... opponents. For example, Ho has recently been working aggressively to push for the enactment of a national security law, launching an online petition campaign and claiming that he has collected more t ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-10
The days when a relative minority of people can invest and manage their money effectively are coming to an end, rapidly brought about by new technologies. Alongside this, the behavior of a new generat ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-10
Twitter Inc. has reached an agreement with Elliott Management that lets Jack Dorsey stay as chief executive and adds three new directors a few days after Elliott’s plan to push out the social media co ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-10
Max von Sydow, the tall, blond Swedish actor who brought gravitas to arthouse dramas, horror movies and Hollywood blockbusters, has died in France aged 90. His wife, producer Catherine Brelet, told Pa ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-10
All of Italy under lockdown, reeling financial markets and rioting prisoners made clear how the global coronavirus epidemic was extending its reach into all aspects of social and economic life. Major ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-10
... he disease. China employs some of the world’s most sophisticated systems of electronic surveillance, including facial recognition. But the coronavirus, which emerged in Hubei province late last year, ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
