Robert Iger will step down as chief executive officer of Walt Disney Co, handing the reins to Disney Parks head Bob Chapek, Reuters reports, citing a company announcement. Iger will assume the post o ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-26
The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday sharply criticized Tesla Inc.’s lack of system safeguards in a fatal 2018 Autopilot crash in California and called US regulators’ approach in overse ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-26
US health officials told Americans to begin preparing for coronavirus to spread within the country as outbreaks in Iran, South Korea and Italy escalated. Iran’s coronavirus death toll rose to 16 on Tu ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-26
Countries need to prepare immediately for an outbreak of the novel coronavirus so they can respond rapidly when it arrives, a top World Health Organization (WHO) expert said. “Think the virus is going ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-26
Hosni Mubarak, who died on Tuesday, never expected to be president. But when a very public assassination thrust the former bomber pilot into the job, he made it his mission never to give it up. His st ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-26
Big Hit Entertainment, the music label of South Korean boy band BTS, has chosen JPMorgan, NH Investment and Securities and others to handle its initial public offering, according to media reports. The ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
At the start of this year, things seemed to be looking up for the global economy. True, growth had slowed a bit in 2019: from 2.9 percent to 2.3 percent in the United States, and from 3.6 percent to 2 ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
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
