The Fitbit on your wrist not only counts your steps and minutes of sleep, it can also help tell if you’re coming down with the flu – and warn health authorities to get ready to help. A study in the Un ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
At the start of a new decade, many commentators are understandably focused on the health of the global economy. Gross domestic product growth this decade most likely will be lower than during the teen ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
Microsoft Corp. has set a new ambition among Fortune 500 companies in addressing climate change, pledging to remove as much carbon as it has emitted in its 45-year history, Reuters reports. The focus ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
A second person has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan following an outbreak of a previously unknown virus, Reuters reports, citing local health authorities. The 69-year-old man ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
... r for life. The State Duma, the lower house of parliament, on Thursday gave its backing to Mikhail Mishustin, a 53-year-old with almost no political profile, endorsing his nomination with 383 votes of ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
... rs reports. The assessment from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) was a setback for Trump, but it was unclear if it would figure in his trial in the Republican-led Senate given th ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
... as "riots". The squabbles over the nature of the social unrest won't end anytime soon. If you ask me, both those labels -- “resistance”, "riots” -- are not truly reflective of what is really going on ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-16
... US exports. The agreement, meant to reduce tensions after nearly two years of a tit-for-tat tariff war, included a pledge by China to purchase at least an additional US$12.5 billion worth of agricultu ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-16
... rs reports. In an emailed statement, Hironaka said that everyone involved in the case at his practice had resigned. A spokeswoman there declined to give a reason. A second lawyer in Ghosn’s three-pers ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-16
... heir homes. Some residents took advantage of what they perceived as a lull in the activity of Taal, one of country’s most active and deadliest volcanoes, to return home even though a 14-kilometer (nin ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-16
... nald Trump. The Democratic-led House voted earlier in the day to send the two formal charges against Trump to the Senate, clearing the way for only the third impeachment trial of a US president to beg ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-16
... unresolved. Beijing and Washington touted the “Phase 1” agreement as a step forward after months of start-and-stop talks, and investors greeted the news with relief. Even so, there was skepticism the ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-16
They say when it rains, it pours. But some end up with just trickles. Same thing with IPOs. Beijing-based mobile app developer NewBorn Town (09911) saw the retail tranche of its initial public offerin ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-15
... from users. Google's plan is to restrict advertising software companies and other organizations from connecting their browser cookies to websites they do not operate, the company said in a blog post o ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-15
Iran said on Tuesday that it has arrested people accused of a role in shooting down a Ukrainian airliner that killed all 176 people aboard last week. President Hassan Rouhani, in address Tuesday, prom ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-15
Commodity traders and analysts are struggling to map out how China will reach the eye-popping amounts it is committing to buy from the United States under Phase 1 of their trade deal. China has pledge ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-15
... terim deal. Mnuchin told reporters that President Donald Trump could consider easing tariffs if the world’s two largest economies move quickly to seal a follow-up agreement. “If the president gets a P ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-15
