Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at the Wuhan Central Hospital who was among the very first in the mainland to sound the alarm about the Wuhan novel coronavirus outbreak, died of pneumonia on Feb. ...More
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... er control. Health officials in Hubei province said 242 people had died from the flu-like virus on Wednesday, the fastest rise in the daily count since the pathogen was identified in December, and bri ...More
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The government said on Wednesday that it has received official information that 10 Hong Kong people stuck in China's central Hubei province had been infected with the novel coronavirus. The Constitu ...More
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This year's Valentine's Day will probably be the least romantic of all. Lovers, no matter how deep their feelings for each other, would not dare to go out on a date. No steak dinner in a fancy restaur ...More
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reiterated his confidence in the US economic outlook, even as he said he expected some drag “soon” from China’s new coronavirus epidemic, Reuters reports. “There ...More
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... rs reports. Bowing to the inevitable, the GSMA telecoms association that hosts the get-together said on Wednesday it had canceled the Feb. 24-27 event despite assurances from local and national health ...More
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... direction”. The 2,015 new confirmed cases took China’s total to 44,653 as of Wednesday. That was the lowest daily rise since Jan. 30 and came a day after epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan said the outbreak ...More
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... ith dismay. Duterte on Tuesday announced the termination of the two-decades-old Visiting Forces Agreement. US Defense Secretary Mark Esper called the decision “unfortunate” as Washington and its allie ...More
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... regulators. ESG investing is rapidly on the rise in Europe, the United States and Japan, and globally its scale exceeded US$30 trillion in 2018. In Hong Kong, however, ESG market development has been ...More
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Sinn Féin’s success in Ireland’s Feb. 8 general election, where it headed the poll, has come as a shock, owing to the party’s historic ties to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and that organization’s a ...More
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T-Mobile US Inc. edged closer to a takeover of Sprint Corp. after a federal judge approved the deal, rejecting a claim by a group of states that said the proposed transaction would violate antitrust l ...More
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Awareness of potentially high-impact but improbable developments should help investors prepare for unexpected changes in market conditions. Here, we consider the grey swans – alternative scenarios out ...More
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... rs reports. With risks like trade policy uncertainty receding and global growth stabilizing, “we find the US economy in a very good place, performing well”, Powell told the US House of Representatives ...More
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Macau's leader Ho Iat-seng has scored over his Hong Kong counterpart Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor when it comes to the fight against the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic. Ho has earned a lot of praise for actin ...More
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... e alliance. The mercurial Duterte, who has made no secret of his grudge with the US and his disdain for his country's close military relationship, believed it was time to be more militarily independen ...More
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... al reports. The partial evacuation came several hours after the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) under the Department of Health (DH) reported six new confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV infection, bringing ...More
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... e epidemic. China’s anti-corruption body said Hubei health commission chief Zhang Jin and director Liu Yingzi had been sacked for unspecified reasons and their roles would be filled by Wang Hesheng, a ...More
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... businesses. Xinchao Media, which places advertisements in elevators, will cut 10 percent of its workforce to “ensure survival”, the company said in a post on its official WeChat account on Monday, whi ...More
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... and funny. One guy in the group decided to take the pic and post it on his Instagram. The caption reads: “Best WFH (work from home) activity." Netizens, who probably were working from home themselves ...More
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Awareness of potentially high-impact but improbable developments should help investors prepare for unexpected changes in market conditions. In our base case, the global economy is poised to improve in ...More
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