... au affairs. Some believe the installation of Luo, who had served as the Communist Party secretary of Shanxi and had been tasked with cracking down graft and other ills in the coal-rich province, as th ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-08
Iran launched missile attacks on US-led forces in Iraq in the early hours of Wednesday in retaliation for an American drone strike that killed a top Iranian commander in Baghdad last week. Iran fired ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-08
... one less". It's not just that the flu season is upon us. It has more to do with the outbreak of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, the capital of central China's Hubei province, which has raised fears of its ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-08
Tesla on Tuesday launched the Model Y electric sports utility vehicle program at the firm's new Shanghai factory, as it delivered its first cars built outside the United States to the public. CEO Elon ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-08
... rs reports. The former Nissan Motor and Renault chairman fled to Lebanon last month from Japan, where he has alleged there was a government-backed coup to oust him. A senior Japanese Ministry of Justi ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-08
... rs reports. The stampede happened in Kerman, Soleimani’s hometown in southeastern Iran, as the slain general was laid to rest after three days of national mourning. Also, the incident left more than 2 ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-08
Oil prices shot up last Friday after the United States launched an airstrike that killed an Iranian military commander in Baghdad. Investors worried that a new war in the Middle East was brewing. When ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-08
... iddle East. In defending his order to launch the drone attack, US President Donald Trump said Soleimani was “plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel but we ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
Although the lawyers are still ironing out the details, the last days of 2019 saw a Phase One trade deal sealed between China and the United States. The trade war is by no means finished and further s ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
... year early. “I must ask for your patience and understanding in allowing time for the campus to ease back to its former state of diversity and vibrancy,” CUHK vice-chancellor and president Professor Ro ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
For a half-century, American corporations (and many others around the world) have embraced shareholder primacy, which holds that the only responsibility of business is to maximize profits. But this pr ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
For decades, space has been the domain of governments. But Astroscale, a seven-year-old startup that wants to clear space trash from Earth’s orbit, aims to be one of the first private companies to dev ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
The Brookings Institution, a foreign policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., recently published a report on the state of global democratization. It was written by a team led by Norman Eisen, a re ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-06
... ted States. “Crazy Trump, don’t think that everything is over with my father’s martyrdom,” Zeinab Soleimani said in her address broadcast on state television after US President Donald Trump ordered Fr ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-06
Astroscale, a company founded by Japanese Nobu Okada, has taken on a bold mission: to design and operate satellites that will remove man-made debris in space. The purpose of the undertaking is signifi ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-06
There is a saying that goes, "Winners do things losers don't want to do." But when it comes to Hong Kong politics it seems to be the other way round. Consider this: most of the newly-elected district ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-06
... ight path". In his first comments to the media since Saturday’s announcement of his appointment to the key post in Hong Kong, Luo Huining said he is “not unfamiliar with the city”, Reuters reports. "H ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-06
Recently, I and some representatives of the Association of Hong Kong Nursing Staff met up with Henry Fan Hung-ling, the new chairman of the Hospital Authority (HA). Among the topics we discussed was ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-03
Kweichow Moutai (600519.CN), China’s top liquor brand, saw its share price tumble 4.5 percent on the first trading day of the new year, despite a strong overall market, after the company said its reve ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-03
... Iran said. Top Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an adviser to Soleimani, was also killed in the attack, a militia spokesman said. The high-profile assassinations are likely to be a mass ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-03
