... ct of 2019. Organizers estimated that more than 130,000 people joined the rally, while police put the crowd at 25,200 at the peak, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. Statue Square, Edinburgh Plac ...More
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... rs reports. India, the world’s second-biggest wireless market by users, will hold an airwaves auction for 5G services before March, according to the country’s Telecoms Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. It ...More
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... rs reports. The authors will split the 50,000 pounds (US$62,800) annual prize, the judging panel said. The award honors “the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Irela ...More
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Economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for their work in fighting global poverty, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. French- ...More
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... Basic Law. Amid this, the foreign relations panels of the US Senate and the House of Representatives have pushed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, and the bill is scheduled to be put to v ...More
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... rs reports. The cable to carry telecommunication, which goes via land and under the sea, as well as microwave transmissions and telco towers, cost 7.63 trillion rupiah (US$540.18 million) to build, ac ...More
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Anti-government protesters clashed with police in various districts across Hong Kong on Sunday, with an officer suffering a slash in the neck. According to the Hospital Authority, a total of 73 people ...More
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Many people in Hong Kong are feeling depressed. According to a study published in July by the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, 9.1 percent of the respondents were suspec ...More
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... rs reports. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been asked to investigate prices charged for residential mortgages by all lenders and how they make pricing decisions, includi ...More
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Facebook Inc.’s ambitious efforts to establish a global digital currency called Libra suffered more setbacks as major payment companies including Mastercard and Visa Inc. quit the group behind the pro ...More
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... suffering”. In a joint declaration, climate scientists, physicists, biologists, engineers and others from at least 20 countries broke with the caution traditionally associated with academia to side wi ...More
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US President Donald Trump on Friday outlined the first phase of a deal to end a trade war with China and suspended a threatened tariff hike, Reuters reports. But officials on both sides said much more ...More
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... platforms. The latest financing was led by General Catalyst, with participation from previous investor IVP and new unnamed backers. It brings the total funds raised by the 10-year-old startup to US$2 ...More
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... of crimes. As such, the controversial law that prohibits the wearing of face masks in public assemblies should not be a cause for worry among law-abiding citizens, Cheung told an inter-departmental p ...More
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Artificial intelligence is now playing a crucial role in the digital transformation of businesses. Eric Moy, chief executive of digital transformation consulting firm KBQuest, recently sat down with t ...More
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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday trade talks with China are “going well” and “should be wrapping up soon”. He was scheduled to meet with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He at the White House today. ...More
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Boeing Co. said airlines had inspected 810 of the company’s 737 NG jets around the world and found 38 structural cracks requiring repair and replacement of the affected parts, Reuters reports. The pla ...More
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... s the city. Just as the pan-democrats are deeply concerned about the prospect of the government further tightening its grip on civil liberties with the emergency law, Executive Council member Ip Kwok- ...More
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The protesters' so-called endgame on Oct. 1 turned out to be a damp squib compared to what happened over the weekend following the government’s decision to invoke emergency powers to impose a ban on w ...More
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... of chaos”. In her speech marking Double Ten Day, the island's national day, Tsai also vowed to defend Taiwan’s sovereignty, saying her government would safeguard freedom and democracy as Beijing ramp ...More
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