A week ago, only two laboratories in Africa could diagnose the novel coronavirus that originated in China and is rapidly spreading around the world. As of Sunday, the World Health Organization (WHO) e ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-11
... ntine for two weeks upon arriving in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on Feb. 3, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong was diagnosed with the virus. About 3,700 people are aboard the ship, which usually h ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
(First of a two-part series) The coronavirus outbreak has sparked panic-buying in Hong Kong, with residents snapping up all the surgical masks they could find as well as daily necessities such as rice ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
... r men and two women, aged 26 to 57, were arrested on charges of obstructing a police officer in execution of duty or for loitering. Zoe Leung Hin-yan, a member of the Sai Kung District Council, later ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
(Second of a two-part series) "Virtual waiting room" technology firm Queue-it, launched in 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark, provides a first-in, first-out online waiting system for transactional websites, ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
... elatives, two more have shown symptoms and are currently confined at Prince of Wales Hospital for treatment. Dr. Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the CHP's Communicable Disease Branch, told a press conferenc ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
... . “I have two-year-old sheep who are seeing green grass for the first time.” Bushfire warning signs were almost swamped by floods in several areas as the weekend rainfall cut power to tens of thousand ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
... untry for two weeks prior to the event, GSMA said. Some 5,000-6,000 visitors typically come from China to the world’s premier telecoms industry gathering, where companies spend millions on stands and ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
... rity. The two sides are unlikely to agree on any major legislation this year, though, as they fight for control of the White House and Congress in the November elections. The budget would raise milita ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
... en nearly two weeks to get the government’s green light on its composition, which was not announced, other than to say that WHO veteran Dr. Bruce Aylward, a Canadian epidemiologist and emergencies exp ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
... not have two or three years to figure out how we use connectivity in the F-150 and our new electric architecture that we launch later this year.” Ford, the No. 2 US automaker, is in the midst of a gl ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
Uber Technologies and Lyft, the two leading US ride-hailing companies, are on divergent paths as Uber pours money into money-losing side businesses while smaller rival Lyft focuses on moving people ar ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
... the past two weeks as Communist Party rulers ordered virtual lockdowns, canceled flights, closed factories and shut schools. Even on Monday, a large number of workplaces and schools remained closed a ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
... nsidering two options, with one being that only practical exams for physical education and music, and an oral exam for the Chinese language subject will be postponed until May while the other exams, i ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-07
... s under a two-week quarantine with about 3,700 people in it. The new cases were out of the 171 remaining test results, Health Minister Katsunobu Kato told reporters. Kato said that the new patients wo ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-07
... tions for two weeks. The Chinese territory has confirmed at least 10 cases so far. The company will now focus on Macau, the Philippines and Cyprus and will still seek a casino license in Japan, Melco ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-07
... so-called Two Sessions, but some of Hong Kong's delegates to the meetings said the odds are growing that they will be postponed. Some Hong Kong delegates to the CPPCC, the country's top political advi ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-06
... rs of the two cities both held separate press conferences to announce further measures on disease containment. Macau Chief Executive Ho Iat-seng declared that all casinos in the city would be closed f ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-06
