Amazon.com Inc. posted holiday quarter results well above expectations as the expansion of its one-day shipping program came under budget and membership in its Prime loyalty club notched a 50 percent ...More
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... e services. The Payment Services Act, passed in January last year, came into force on Tuesday. With the new act, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched the first formal comprehensive s ...More
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The California Institute of Technology said it won a US$1.1 billion jury verdict in a patent case against Apple and Broadcom, Reuters reports. In a case filed in federal court in Los Angeles in 2016, ...More
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At the stroke of midnight in Brussels on Friday, Britain will leave the European Union and Prime Minister Boris Johnson will deliver on his election promise to “Get Brexit Done”. But he won’t have lon ...More
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According to figures recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), China's population exceeded 1.4 billion in 2019. However, the number of newborns recorded last year only stood at 14. ...More
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... Kong (HKU). Considering that the government only started implementing border controls from Thursday, and hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers have already been returning from the mainland, it may take ...More
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Microsoft Corp. reported fiscal second-quarter sales and profit that beat Wall Street expectations, driven by the first acceleration of Azure cloud computing revenue growth in eight quarters, Reuters ...More
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... wing costs. “We believe the current stance of monetary policy is appropriate to support sustained economic growth, a strong labor market and inflation returning to our symmetric 2 percent objective,” ...More
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Amid the social unrest, the huge question is whether "one country, two systems" in Hong Kong will remain intact for 50 years as promised – or grind to a sudden halt. As we all know, the idea of "one c ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-29
... oronavirus. Macau late on Tuesday said it would curb its individual visit scheme through which visitors gain entry from mainland China, days after it suspended inbound package tours. Since Friday, arr ...More
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According to the Chinese almanac, 2020 is the Year of the Rat – the symbol of wealth and vitality. With how the markets have been performing, many investors are hoping that this is the year their port ...More
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... o science”. Other decisive acts followed and, by Sunday (Jan. 26), more than 56 million people in Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital, were quarantined, with many other cities taking their o ...More
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On Jan. 15, US President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed a “phase one” agreement aimed at containing the two countries’ long-running bilateral trade war. But no sooner had the deal ...More
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... rs reports. The US Justice Department lawsuits said most of the calls originated in India and used voice over internet protocol (VoIP) carriers, which use internet connections instead of traditional c ...More
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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
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... 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
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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
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... 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
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... 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
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