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
New Zealand police said on Tuesday they were launching a criminal investigation after a volcanic island erupted with ash and steam on Monday, killing five people, injuring more than 30 and leaving eig ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-10
Amazon on Monday accused US President Donald Trump of exerting “improper pressure” and bias that led the Pentagon to award a US$10 billion cloud contract to rival Microsoft Corp, Reuters reports. In a ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-10
Tetsu Nakamura, the Japanese doctor and aid worker killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday, was inspired to make the country’s deserts green by the deaths of children in a clinic he ran in a drought-strick ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-05
Capital investment by Chinese firms has ground to its slowest pace in three years, as a weakening economy, tight credit and prolonged trade war with the United States dent sales growth and cash reserv ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-04
US President Donald Trump solicited foreign interference to boost his re-election chances, undermined national security and ordered an “unprecedented” campaign to obstruct Congress, Democrats said on ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-04
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said US legislation supporting protesters may damage business confidence in the financial hub, as she announced a fourth round of relief measures to boost th ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-03
US President Donald Trump announced tariffs on US steel and aluminum imports from Brazil and Argentina in a measure that shocked South American officials and left them scrambling for answers, Reuters ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-03
US shoppers made more purchases online on Black Friday than in the mall, hurting traffic and sales at brick-and-mortar stores, Reuters reports. For the first time in several years, however, store traf ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-02
Democratic Party chairman Wu Chi-wai urged the administration to listen to the voice of the people as expressed in the landslide victory of the pan-democrats in Sunday's District Council elections. Sp ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-26
As US Federal Reserve officials hone their monetary policy playbook in preparation for the next economic downturn, it appears they will eschew more controversial approaches tried by other global centr ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-21
