... rs reports. Citing a “deepening crackdown” on all forms of independent reporting inside China, administration officials said Beijing’s attacks on free speech were worse than they were a decade ago, co ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-03
Apple Inc. has agreed to pay up to US$500 million to settle litigation accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones as it launched new models, to induce owners to buy replacement phones or batter ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-03
Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet Inc., said it has raised US$2.25 billion in its first external investment round and expects to add more outside investors, Reuters reports. The company also di ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-03
The new coronavirus appears to now be spreading much more rapidly outside China than within, and airports in hard-hit countries were ramping up screening of travelers. World Health Organization (WHO) ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-03
Billionaire Peter Woo Kwong-ching intends to take its flagship property empire Wheelock & Co (00020.HK) private. This is the second major move from the group in recent years, since a previous over ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-02
... countries. To deflect such thinking, the president, who is also the Communist Party’s general secretary, came up with a strategy to depict China not as the country whose obsession with secrecy delaye ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-02
The Foreign Correspondents Club of China (FCCC) has accused Beijing of weaponizing visas as part of a stepped-up campaign of pressure on foreign journalists operating in the country. "Since 2013, when ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-02
... ealth said. Two of the newly confirmed cases are associated with the cluster related to the Buddhist temple Fook Wai Ching She on Shu Kuk Street in North Point. One is a 46-year-old woman (the 95th ca ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-02
The outbreak of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, that began in Wuhan, China, may well turn into a global pandemic. Nearly 50 countries have confirmed cases of the virus, with the precise nature of the t ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-02
... nd flights. The first American died from the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), a man in his 50s with underlying conditions in Washington state, officials said Saturday. They still do not know how he contr ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-02
... of dollars. Major distributors such as McKesson Corp. and drugmakers including Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. joined in the request that US District Judge Dan Polster in Cleveland, Ohio, reject a ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
Publishing magnate Jimmy Lai Chee-Ying and two other pro-democracy activists were arrested by police on Friday on charges of illegal assembly. Lai, a self-made millionaire who has been a major financi ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
Thyssenkrupp AG said it agreed to sell its elevators division to a consortium of Advent, Cinven and Germany’s RAG foundation for 17.2 billion euros (US$18.7 billion) in what could be the world’s large ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
... the matter. The FCC is expected to announce the proposed fines on AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. on Friday. The companies will be able to challenge the ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
Amazon.com Inc. said it has barred more than 1 million products from sale in recent weeks that had inaccurately claimed to cure or defend against the coronavirus, Reuters reports. Amazon also removed ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
... s possible. In his budget speech given on Wednesday, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po proposed HK$10,000 cash assistance to all Hong Kong permanent residents aged 18 or above “with a view to encour ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-27
... ng illness. Asia reported hundreds of new cases on Wednesday, Brazil confirmed Latin America’s first infection and the new disease – Covid-19 – was also detected for the first time in Pakistan, Sweden ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-27
