Desperate for funding to fend off a financial crisis fuelled in part by mounting debt to China, Pakistan is playing a complicated game of poker that could hand Saudi Arabia a strategic victory in its ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-11
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has announced an increase in the government's subsidy offer for employers to end an arrangement that allows them to offset long-service and severance payment ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-10
President Donald Trump repeated his threat to impose tariffs on US$267 billion worth of additional Chinese imports if China retaliates for the recent levies and other measures the United States has ta ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-10
Following the comment by US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell last week that "we're a long way from neutral at this point", the 10-year US treasury yield spiked above 3 percent. The decade-long b ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its global economic growth forecasts for 2018 and 2019, saying that trade policy tensions and the imposition of import tariffs were taking a toll on comm ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
Since World War II’s end, trade has grown 50 percent faster than global GDP, owing largely to successive rounds of liberalization under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (previously the Gen ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
Pakistan’s new government will open talks with the International Monetary Fund for emergency financial assistance to ease a mounting balance of payments crisis, Reuters reports, citing the finance min ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
Venezuelan consumer prices rose 488,865 percent in the 12 months ending in September, Reuters reports, citing a member of the opposition-run congress. Daily inflation is now 4 percent, according to op ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
Dr. Lam Ching-choi, chairman of the Elderly Commission, said the government will set up a fund as soon as November that will allow elderly service units to procure technology products for their reside ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-08
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has recently introduced the Faster Payment System (FPS), which aims to facilitate fund transfers. So far 21 commercial banks and 10 stored value facilities (SVF) have ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-08
The government has approved the sale of a new drug for patients who suffer from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). SMA is a genetic neuromuscular disorder characterized by the loss of motor neurons and pr ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
The government is considering ending the system that allows employers to offset employees’ severance payments or long-service payments with Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) contributions after members o ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
Japan’s SoftBank Vision Fund is reportedly in talks with Chinese online education startup Zuoyebang, seeking to invest about US$500 million in the firm in a bid to gain a foothold in the country’s rap ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
There are roughly two major types of funds in the stock market. One is controlled by professional investors, namely active funds that make investment decisions after analyzing macro factors and compan ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
彭博昨引述知情人士稱，日本軟銀集團（SoftBank）旗下的願景基金（Vision Fund），計劃投資內地教 ...全文
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Scientists Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for breakthroughs in the field of lasers used for surgery as well as scientific study, the award-givin ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
LINE, a Japan-based mobile messaging app owned by South Korean internet giant Naver, aims to create a blockchain ecosystem for its service offerings. Its blockchain efforts have included the establish ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
