If Amazon.com decides to fight the Pentagon’s decision to award a highly contested US$10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft, it could act as early as next week. A challenge to the Defense D ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-29
I have written before in this column about the negative effects of social media and other digital channels in enabling cyber-bullying. Online intimidation, harassment and doxing have become especially ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
HSBC Holdings (00005.HK) on Monday flagged a softer revenue growth outlook and additional restructuring charges, leading it to drop a key profit target for next year after posting a more-than-expected ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
Amid the civil unrest, there are a lot of uncertainties hanging over the District Council elections scheduled for Nov. 24. Although Barnabas Fung Wah, chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
Depression is widespread in Hong Kong, especially in these days of unrest. A recent study by a research team from the University of Hong Kong faculty of medicine has described the mental health proble ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
... rs reports. About 3,000 people were battling the Kinkade Fire, the worst of more than a dozen major blazes that have damaged or destroyed nearly 400 structures, and prompted Governor Gavin Newsom to d ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
Argentina’s Peronists swept back into power on Sunday, ousting conservative President Mauricio Macri in an election result that shifts Latin America’s No. 3 economy firmly back toward the left after i ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
The United Auto Workers union said it has chosen Ford Motor Co. as the next US automaker the union will negotiate with after workers at General Motors Co. approved a new contract deal, Reuters reports ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
Microsoft Corp. has won the Pentagon’s US$10 billion cloud computing contract, beating out favorite Amazon.com Inc., Reuters reports. The contracting process had long been mired in conflict of interes ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
... on Sunday. The protesters, many in all-black clothing and face masks now banned under a resurrected British colonial-era law, had gathered to denounce perceived police brutality during more than four ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
Fugitive Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died “whimpering and crying” in a raid by US special forces in northwest Syria, President Donald Trump has announced. Baghdadi, who had led the jihad ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
... the future. In a press conference on Thursday, Deputy Chief Fire Officer (Headquarters) Derek Armstrong Chan said firefighters already have too much work to handle themselves, and it is impossible for ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-25
... ovember 24. In a paper submitted to the Legislative Council on Thursday, the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau said a crisis management committee has been established to cope with any situati ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-25
... oko Widodo. Andre Soelistyo, the company's new CEO, said in a media briefing on Thursday that the primary listing will be in the home country, as Gojek wants to provide "the opportunity for Indonesian ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-25
In the United States and other advanced industrial economies, a growing number of workers no longer work for a single employer on a traditional contract. Instead, they earn income through a variety of ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-25
US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Tom Cotton asked intelligence officials to investigate whether the popular Chinese-owned app TikTok poses national security risks, Reuters reports. ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-25
... and profit. The company, India’s second-biggest IT services firm by revenue, said the Indian market regulator -- Securities and Exchange Board of India -- had also sought information concerning the co ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-24
... t protests. "This is very much needed at this point in time because of the very drastic reduction in [the number of] visitors to Hong Kong," Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Edward Yau ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-24
The language of international monetary policy has turned militaristic. The phrase “currency war” has now been popular for a decade, and the United States government’s more recent “weaponization” of th ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-24
... rity (ISA). “I do believe that China could easily be among the first (to start exploitation),” Reuters quoted Michael Lodge, ISA general-secretary, as saying. “The demand for minerals is enormous and ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-24
