... 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
In recent years, fears of a new cold war between the United States and China have been proliferating. But the tensions between the two powers would be better described as a “cool war,” characterized n ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-03
For more than a decade, China has been haunted by the prospect of getting stuck at an income level below that of the developed world (the “middle-income trap”). But the country’s economy is well on it ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-03
... ales (NSW). At the peak of the summer holiday period, tens of thousands of holidaymakers were urged to leave national parks and tourist areas on the NSW south coast and eastern areas of Victoria befor ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-03
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said there are indications Iran or forces it backs may be planning additional attacks, Reuters reports. He also warned that the “game has changed” and it is possible th ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-03
