Police used tear gas to disperse crowds in Mong Kok on Sunday night as some anti-government protesters moved to the area and blocked roads after participating in demonstrations at several shopping mal ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-16
... ment that blocked the story. The article was removed by Refinitiv, the financial information provider that distributes Reuters news to investors around the world on Eikon, a trading and analytics plat ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-13
... tried to block roads in response to an online call for a citywide strike. The EDB said it has recommended that the teacher be suspended from his duties. But education sector lawmaker Ip Kin-yuen oppo ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-12
... ecides to block the deal, it will deal a significant blow to AB InBEv which has been seeking to cut debt following its 2016 acquisition of rival SABMiller, the report noted. AB InBev had hoped to clos ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-12
... orcers to block the deal on the grounds that it will give Google even more data about American consumers, the report noted. Google's US$2.1 billion deal for Fitbit, which was announced on Nov. 1, woul ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-11
... tried to block roads in response to an online call for a citywide strike. Chief Superintendent Kenneth Kwok Ka-chuen of the Police Public Relations Branch (PPRB) said some of those arrested were foun ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-10
... began to block roads and confront the police in the evening. Sometime after 6 pm, the High Court building came under petrol bomb attack and the exterior walls of the building were spray-painted with ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-09
... cones to block the intersection of Ma Tau Wai Road and Tam Kung Road as well as spraying paint on a passing bus, prompting them to enforce the law and make arrests. Although the students resisted arr ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-05
... threat to block plans to defend northern and eastern Europe unless allies declared Kurdish fighters in Syria terrorists. But the meeting began and ended in acrimony startling even for the era of US Pr ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-05
... tempts to block career government officials from testifying and intimidation of witnesses. The Democrats argue that “damage ... will be long-lasting and potentially irrevocable if the President’s abil ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-04
... intent to block her way and to minimize her obstruction of [the police’s] ongoing dispersal operation", the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. “As you can see from the video, suddenly the woman knelt ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-03
... internet block showed protests continued in several cities on Monday night and a heavy presence of security forces in streets. The images posted on social media could not be verified by Reuters. Abou ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-20
... bricks to block roads, some chanting: “Liberate HK! Revolution of our time!” A police officer was shot in the calf by an arrow as anti-government protesters, many of them students, responded to police ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-18
Anti-government protesters paralyzed parts of Hong Kong for a third day, with some transport links, schools and many businesses closing after an escalation of violence. Around 1,000 protesters blocked ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-13
The early enthusiasm for blockchain and the virtual assets it supports, while still felt by a large and active community, has also given way to disappointment and cynicism in some quarters. At this po ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-13
More than a thousand people, many wearing office clothes and face masks, rallied in the Central business district on Tuesday, blocking roads in a flash mob protest. For the second day in a row, the fi ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-12
... tinued to block roads and conduct acts of vandalism on Monday, leading to chaos on the streets and serious transport disruptions. Lam told media that everyone in Hong Kong should condemn the demonstra ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-12
... ng up roadblocks with bicycles and iron railings near Sheung Tak Estate. They also flipped a black van on its side to block the road. Some of the protesters said the driver of the vehicle had knocked ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-12
... ntralized blockchain-based currency Bitcoin in 2009, the arrival of modern cryptocurrencies has had essentially zero impact on the global taste for dollars. Promoters of these new forms of money still ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-11
... seeks to block WeWork from rubber-stamping further transactions with SoftBank and Neumann, and restrict stock repurchases from minority shareholders. It also seeks punitive damages. SoftBank’s propos ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-11
