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今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2019年12月19日
Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot maker PSA have reached a binding agreement over a roughly US$50 billion merger that will reshape the global car industry, Reuters reports. Europe’s second and third biggest a ...More
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... next year. In a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Anthony Neoh, who chairs the police watchdog, said the report will be out by the end of January or in early February at the latest, the Hong Kon ...More
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... lice force. The animosity between the protesters, particularly the young and radical elements among them, and law enforcement personnel has run so deep that it is almost beyond reconciliation. Meanwhi ...More
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... rs reports. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who won a large majority in the general election last Thursday, will use his control of parliament to outlaw any extension of the Brexit transition period bey ...More
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A Pakistani court sentenced former military dictator Pervez Musharraf to death in absentia on treason charges stemming from his imposition of a state of emergency in 2007, Reuters reports. Musharraf, ...More
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... rs reports. Advocates for the victims of a sex abuse scandal that has rocked the church for nearly two decades applauded the move as being long overdue but said it had to be applied broadly. Two docum ...More
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With US President Donald Trump signing the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act into law on Nov. 28, the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong has been elevated to the next level. Following Washingt ...More
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... le on duty. Media workers at protest sites should avoid staying close to police cordon lines when dispersal actions and arrests are being conducted, the police said. In a regular press briefing on Mo ...More
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A 12-year-old boy in Australia and his dog have escaped a fire that was lapping his family’s farmhouse by grabbing the keys to his brother’s pick-up truck and driving to safety. Lucas Sturrock was hom ...More
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The food delivery market has been flooded with capital, paving way for the rise of a new batch of online platforms. As firms seek to stand out from the crowd, Ritual, a Toronto-headquartered startup h ...More
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Despite delivering some of the best returns of any equity market globally over the last century, Australian companies are frequently overlooked by global investors, in our view. Australia accounts for ...More
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Swiss drugmaker Roche has won US antitrust approval for its US$4.3 billion deal to buy gene therapy specialist Spark Therapeutics, clearing the way for Roche’s push into treating rare diseases includi ...More
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China and Russia proposed that the UN Security Council lift a ban on North Korea exporting statues, seafood and textiles, Reuters said, citing a draft resolution. The draft also called for a ban to be ...More
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... to plummet. Among the respondents, over 59 percent said they don’t trust the government, as compared to just 30 percent who expressed a similar opinion in a previous poll in May, while only 15 percent ...More
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... der events.” Just three months since that announcement, the International Expert Panel (IEP), after completing the initial phase of its work, has suddenly called it quits, complaining that there is a ...More
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Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, recently marked the 50th anniversary of his organization by unveiling a new ‘Davos Manifesto’. His aim is to ask what sort of ...More
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... ncy action. The COP25 talks in Madrid were viewed as a test of governments’ collective will to heed the advice of science to cut greenhouse gas emissions more rapidly, in order to prevent rising globa ...More
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... th service. After winning a commanding majority in last week’s election, Johnson will seek to speed up the approval by parliament of his withdrawal agreement with the European Union, and to start plow ...More
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... on Sunday. Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation” program, Lighthizer said there would be some routine “scrubs” to the text but “this is totally done, absolutely,” Reuters reports. A date for senior US a ...More
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