The US economy will grow at a “solid” rate of 2.2 percent this year, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office forecasts, but the federal budget deficit will hit US$1.02 trillion. The economy will ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-29
... rs reports. Defying Britain’s closest ally in favor of China on the eve of Brexit, Johnson ruled that “high-risk vendors” such as Huawei would be allowed into the non-sensitive parts of the 5G network ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-29
The iPhone is back. But Apple is girding for more disruptions in virus-hit China. Apple Inc. on Tuesday reported sales and profits for the holiday shopping quarter above Wall Street expectations, than ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-29
... rs reports. Trump announced his plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace at a White House event on Tuesday with embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu standing at his side. It includes what Tru ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-29
... he disease. Fears of the spreading virus led airlines to reduce flights to China and global companies to restrict employee travel to the country. CNBC reported that the White House had told US airline ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-29
The new strain of coronavirus spreading across China claimed its first victim in Beijing, officials said on Tuesday, as the death toll climbed to 106. Meanwhile, the United States warned citizens agai ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-28
Market participants' excess of optimism over the trade agreement between the United States and China is clearly exaggerated, once we have the details. The trade conflict has had a mild impact on both ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-24
... rs reports. A lawsuit launched by Gambia in November at the United Nations’ highest body for disputes between states accuses Myanmar of genocide against Rohingya in violation of a 1948 convention. The ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-24
... cal issues. Some of the opposition DC members are already trying to overturn certain infrastructure projects approved by their predecessors, although it is not clear how they are going to explain thei ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-23
... rs reports. The lawsuit said Clinton’s comments had damaged the presidential candidacy of Gabbard, a US representative from Hawaii, and were motivated by anger over Gabbard’s endorsement in 2016 of Cl ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-23
... with China. Eventually, Beijing agreed that Hong Kong’s legal, economic and social systems would remain unchanged for 50 years after its return to Chinese sovereignty under a policy known as “one coun ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-23
... with China. Eventually, Beijing agreed that Hong Kong's ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2020年01月23日
... hment camp. According to his own description, he belongs to the so-called "open-minded pro-establishment bloc". Tien's recent “atypical” remarks are that he echoed the slogan of “Liberate Hong Kong” c ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-22
The death toll from a new flu-like coronavirus in China rose to nine on Wednesday with 440 confirmed cases, Reuters reports, citing Chinese health officials. Another 2,197 people who came into contact ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-22
Big technology firms are always thinking of the Next Big Thing. Right now, everyone is focusing on the fifth-generation mobile communications network, which is expected to play an important role in th ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-22
... Kong (HKU). Speaking to media in Hong Kong on Tuesday after returning from a trip to Wuhan, where he recently joined an expert team formed by China's National Health Commission (NHC) for an inspection ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-22
As this article is being written, protests are raging across Indian campuses amid anger over the government's move to amend a citizenship law and authorities' failure to heed the public's concerns. Ov ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-22
Remember that scene on the first working day after the Lunar New Year holiday last year, when thousands of employees of Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) formed a kilometric, serpentine line at their corpor ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-22
... rs reports. Ju Yong Chol, a counselor at North Korea’s mission to the UN in Geneva, said that over the past two years, his country had halted nuclear tests and test firing of inter-continental ballist ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-22
