... 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
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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
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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
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... 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
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... 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
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... rs reports. As the third impeachment trial in US history began in earnest on Tuesday, senators voted 53-47 along party lines to block a motion from Democratic leader Chuck Schumer to subpoena State De ...More
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Boeing Co. said it does not expect to win approval for the return of the 737 MAX to service until mid-year due to further potential developments in the certification process and regulatory scrutiny on ...More
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US President Donald Trump touted the success of the American economy in Davos on Tuesday, dismissing “perennial prophets of doom” on climate change, Reuters reports. Speaking to an audience that inclu ...More
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... investors. The Hang Seng Index, which has been buoyed over the past weeks by the initial trade agreement between China and the United States, lost more than 800 points to close 2.81 percent lower at ...More
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... rs reports. The agency, however, moved its outlook to stable from negative. “The absence of tangible plans to address either the political or economic and social concerns of the Hong Kong population t ...More
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The role of corporate boards has never been more important, nor subject to as much scrutiny, as it is today. The technological, environmental, geopolitical, and socioeconomic transformations of the pa ...More
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... o election. He told reporters that he is now making a joint effort with the other two honorary party chairpersons -- Miriam Lau Kin-yee and Selina Chow Liang Shuk-yee -- as well as former financial se ...More
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... protesters. There have been some allegations that the vandalism may have been carried out by undercover police officers posing as protesters, so as to create an excuse for the law enforcement to stop ...More
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... rs reports. Putin also replaced Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, who had held the role since 2006, a move suggesting his planned changes could reach beyond the political system and the government. In a ...More
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A lawyer for Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou argued in a Canadian court that “double criminality” was at the center of a trial to decide whether she can be extradited to the United States, Reuters reports. ...More
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South Korea reported on Monday its first confirmed case of a new coronavirus that has broken out in China, Reuters reports, citing South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). The ...More
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... oung guns”. Amid this situation, it appears some District Officers (DOs), who are government representatives at the district level under the Home Affairs Bureau, have come up with some “outside-the-bo ...More
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Police fired tear gas at a pro-democracy rally in Central on Sunday after some protesters blocked roads, set fires, engaged in vandalism and attacked officers. The protest, although approved by the po ...More
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