On Feb. 7, news of the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at the Wuhan Central Hospital who was among the very first to warn of the novel coronavirus, grabbed headlines not only in China but ...More
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US prosecutors accused Huawei of stealing trade secrets and helping Iran track protesters in its latest indictment against the Chinese company, Reuters reports. In Thursday's indictment, which superse ...More
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... ond Brexit. Johnson, who had wanted to minimize any disruption from his long-planned cabinet revamp, quickly replaced Sajid Javid with his deputy Rishi Sunak, a loyal supporter of the prime minister w ...More
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... tment said. “We strongly support and encourage the work of US and international aid and health organizations to counter and contain the spread of coronavirus in the DPRK,” spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus s ...More
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A US judge granted Amazon.com Inc.’s request to temporarily halt the US Department of Defense and Microsoft Corp. from moving forward on a cloud computing deal worth up to US$10 billion that Amazon sa ...More
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... regulators. ESG investing is rapidly on the rise in Eur ...全文
今日信報時事評論Stephen Wong2020年02月14日
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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