... f Chinese goods from 10 to 25 percent by this Friday, and then on another US$325 billion of additional products shortly. Trump’s shocking tweet immediately triggered a global stock market selloff on M ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-08
... ng on the government proposal to amend the fugitives law. In a special meeting held last Saturday, Legco’s House Committee earlier voted to replace Democratic Party lawmaker James To Kun-sun, who had ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-08
... nce drove governance. Until recently, policymakers sought to provide empirically compelling – albeit often simplified – assessments of problems such as poverty, disease, and violence, in order to buil ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-08
... rmined to go head to head with each other over the bill. A pro-Beijing lawmaker has said the pan-dems are welcome to join their meeting on Saturday in their capacity as bills committee members, while ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-08
Big data is changing the way we see the world. When the amount of information reaches a certain level, powerful algorithms and machine learning will often lead to new conclusions that go against tradi ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-08
... S$500 and go up with each subsequent offense, topping out at more than US$1,000. Drivers are fined an additional US$173 each time. “It’s just like gangsterism fighting for turf,” said Ivan, a South Af ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-08
Alphabet Inc.’s Google launched more affordable versions of its Pixel smartphone at about half the price of its current models, Reuters reports. Since hitting the market three years ago, the Pixel has ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-08
Chaos threatens to scuttle work at the Legislative Council's bills committee, which is deliberating on the government proposal to amend the extradition laws, after the two opposing camps insisted on p ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-07
Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 da ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-07
... ything to go by, the women may be disappointed. Maimati was detained in 2017 but unlike most of the wives released after two months. Chinese authorities have since refused to return her passport and t ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-07
... TC should go further. “It should consider setting rules of the road on what Facebook can do with consumers’ private information, such as requiring the deletion of tracking data, restricting the collec ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-07
China backtracked on substantial commitments it had made during trade talks with the United States, prompting US President Donald Trump to impose additional tariffs on Chinese goods slated to go into ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-07
... illion of goods to 25 percent on Friday from 10 percent. His comments upended markets that had been enjoying a period of calm thanks to signs of robust growth in China and the United States, and from ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-06
Drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. in New York will go on strike this week shortly before the ride-hailing company goes public to protest what they view as unfair employment conditions, Reuters report ...More
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