Police and pro-democracy protesters battled on the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday after tens of thousands of people staged a rally despite being refused permission by authorities. The weekend rally dr ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-21
... rs reports. David Marcus, who heads the Libra project for Facebook, told a banking seminar on Sunday the group’s main goal remained to create a more efficient payments system, but it was open to looki ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-21
The British government insisted on Sunday that the country will leave the European Union on Oct. 31 despite a letter that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced by parliament to send to the bloc requ ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-21
... rs reports. The move by parliament, on a day Johnson had pitched as a day of reckoning for Brexit, increases the chances that the divorce will be delayed and thus increases the opportunity for opponen ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-19
Every time you think that the Chief Executive in Name Only (CENO) and her motley crew of waxworks can sink no lower, she triumphantly proves that the absolute depths have yet to be tested. While the f ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-18
... the matter. Aramco had been expected to announce plans next week to float a 1-2 percent stake on the kingdom’s Tadawul market, in what could have been one of the largest ever public offerings, worth u ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-18
Facebook Inc. chief executive Mark Zuckerberg attacked the rapidly growing Chinese short-video app TikTok, saying it censored political protest, including in the United States, Reuters reports. While ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-18
Turkey agreed to pause its offensive in Syria for five days to let Kurdish forces withdraw from a “safe zone” Ankara had sought to capture, Reuters reports. The truce was announced by US Vice Presiden ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-18
... media said. “Alicia Alonso has gone and left an enormous void, but also an unbeatable legacy,” President Miguel Diaz-Canel said in a post on Twitter. “She positioned Cuba at the altar of the best of d ...More
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... n Brussels. Separately, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: “we have a great new Brexit deal”. Juncker said in a letter that he would recommend that the leaders of the other 27 member states ap ...More
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... co members. Retreating from the House, she gave her speech through video instead. Meanwhile, the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act was passed by unanimous voice vote in the United States House ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-17
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said on Thursday it will roll out a software patch to fix problems with its flagship Galaxy S10 smartphone’s fingerprint recognition, Reuters reports. A British user told ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-17
... rs reports. Taiwan is China’s most sensitive territorial issue. Beijing considers the self-ruled island a wayward province and part of “one China”. The incident involving the map occurred during a pre ...More
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Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s third-quarter revenue jumped 27 percent, driven by a surge in shipments of smartphones prior to a US trade blacklisting, Reuters reports. Huawei, the world’s biggest mak ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-17
Netflix Inc. added slightly more paying subscribers than Wall Street expected in the third quarter, a relief to investors who had worried the company might fall short just as Disney and Apple prepare ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-17
I spent two weeks in Taiwan recently. During the trip, many Taiwanese asked me about the ongoing Hong Kong social unrest that was triggered by a controversial extradition bill. Almost everyone I met e ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-17
... rs reports. Officials from the United States, Britain and South Korea described the network as one of the largest child pornography operations they had encountered to date. Called Welcome To Video, th ...More
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... al economy. In her third policy address, Lam warned that there will be more layoffs in the near term, adding that violent protests in recent months have aggravated the situation, “posing an unpreceden ...More
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