Huawei Technologies is boldly pursuing its campaign in the smartphone market, refusing to slow down amid the novel coronavirus outbreak and growing pressure from the US government. The world's largest ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
As Hong Kong frets about the coronavirus outbreak and its potential fallout on the economy, the city's finance chief is preparing to unveil the government's annual budget proposals on Wednesday. Unlik ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
Five years ago, billionaire Bill Gates warned that the world’s biggest disaster would not be a nuclear war but a global pandemic from a highly contagious virus. He cited the Spanish flu in 1918, which ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
... rs reports. Investors sold riskier assets and rushed to traditionally safer bets such as gold and US Treasuries after countries including Iran, Italy and South Korea reported a rise in virus cases ove ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
After shutting down several border crossings, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor had announced that starting from Feb. 8 all people entering Hong Kong from mainland China must undergo 14 days ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-24
... y and Iran. A surge of infections in South Korea and Italy, and an alarming rise in the death toll in Iran over the weekend, triggered steep falls in Asian share markets and Wall Street stock futures ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-24
... al reports. Political parties have been urging the administration to rescue the more than 2,700 Hongkongers in Hubei as the virus-linked death toll continued to increase in the province, which has bee ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-24
Prices of corn, soy and wheat are continuing to move closely in line with the currencies of key exporting nations. Corn and wheat prices are sensitive to movements in the Russian ruble (RUB) while soy ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-24
... platforms. The bill, proposed by Senators Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Richard Blumenthal, aims to curb the distribution of child sexual abuse material on platf ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-24
On Feb. 9, Bloomberg ran article titled “Hong Kong is Showing Symptoms of a Failed State” in its opinion section, in which the author, Clara Ferreira Marques, referred to Hong Kong as a "fragile state ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-21
... ncy (CBDC). The year-long pilot project will use distributed ledger technology (DLT) such as blockchain which supports cryptocurrencies. CBDCs are traditional money, but in digital form, issued and su ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-21
A policeman has tested positive for Covid-19 in Hong Kong, becoming the first law enforcement official in the city to be infected with the novel coronavirus, authorities said. The victim, the 69th con ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-21
China's Hubei province reported an uptick in new cases of coronavirus on Friday, reversing three days of declines, although the numbers still confirmed a downward trend, Reuters reports. Hubei, the pr ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-21
... rs reports. The deserted shopping malls and cinemas of Daegu, a city of 2.5 million people, became one of the most striking images outside China of an outbreak that international authorities are tryin ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-21
... t of there. However, the government has yet to come up with a concrete evacuation plan for them, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. “The HKSAR government is very concerned about the situation of ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-20
... s on board. Security Secretary John Lee Ka-chiu told reporters that the flight, which landed in Hong Kong at around 8.30 am, carried 106 Hong Kong people who had been under quarantine aboard the Diamo ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-20
... ed onboard. More than 620 of the passengers on the Diamond Princess liner have been infected on the ship, which has been quarantined since Feb. 3, initially with about 3,700 people on board. NHK, citi ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-20
... ion (KCDC). Of the new cases, 23 cases were traced to church services that a 61-year-old patient who has tested positive had attended in the central city of Daegu. On Wednesday, Shincheonji Church pos ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-20
