Dear Mr. Xi, As a new decade dawns, it may be fitting to reflect upon the events of 2019 in Hong Kong and how to ensure, as you have said, that "one country, two systems" will be "fully applied ... wi ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-30
The US military carried out air strikes in Iraq and Syria on Sunday targeting an Iran-backed militia group which has been blamed for a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base that killed a US civilian ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-30
Police defended the action of an officer who drew his gun on a crowd during a confrontation with protesters on Sunday, saying he was forced to brandish his weapon in order to save himself and his coll ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-24
Three people died of injuries sustained in intensifying protests against a new citizenship law in India on Thursday with thousands taking to the streets nationwide in defiance of temporary bans on pub ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-20
Micron Technology said on Wednesday that it expects a recovery in 2020 after a “cyclical bottom” in its fiscal second quarter, and that it had received all requested licenses to supply some products t ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-19
The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday proposed changes to its decades-old definition of a professional investor in order to allow more Americans to buy shares in private companies, Re ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-19
Hong Kong football fans booed as the Chinese national anthem was played before their team’s clash with China in South Korea, Reuters reports. The Korea Football Association said on Wednesday it had ta ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-19
Pope Francis announced sweeping changes to the way the Roman Catholic Church deals with cases of sexual abuse of minors, abolishing the rule of “pontifical secrecy” that previously covered them, Reute ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-18
The so-called Phase One trade deal between Washington and Beijing has been “absolutely completed,” a top White House adviser said, adding that US exports to China will double under the agreement. “The ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-17
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede who inspired millions of young people to take action against climate change, has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019. Thunberg launched a grass ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-12
The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday held interest rates steady and signaled borrowing costs will not change anytime soon, with moderate economic growth and historically low unemployment expected to pe ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-12
Britain’s election race has tightened markedly over the past two weeks and Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now likely to win only a modest majority in Thursday’s vote, according to a closely watched f ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-11
Five foreign experts have quit a panel advising Hong Kong’s police watchdog on an investigation into police conduct during months of pro-democracy protests after raising doubts about the probe’s indep ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-11
Just as the civil unrest in Hong Kong is considered the most serious popular challenge to the authority of President Xi Jinping since he took power in 2012, the young protesters in this city of ours h ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-11
US senators grilled Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc. executives over their encryption practices and threatened to regulate the technology unless the companies make encrypted user data accessible to law en ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-11
