Getting measles is even more dangerous than doctors had realized because it destroys immunity that the victim has acquired to other diseases, Reuters reports, citing two studies. The findings help to ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-01
Apple on Wednesday forecast sales for the crucial holiday shopping quarter ahead of Wall Street expectations, with CEO Tim Cook envisaging strong demand for wearables and new launches such as the nois ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-31
Crews lost ground against a wind-driven wildfire that has blackened a wide swath of California’s picturesque wine country and driven 180,000 people from their homes as they hoped for a break in the ho ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
The United Auto Workers union said it has chosen Ford Motor Co. as the next US automaker the union will negotiate with after workers at General Motors Co. approved a new contract deal, Reuters reports ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
Anti-government protesters set fire to shops and hurled petrol bombs after riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets to disperse thousands in the tourist district of Tsim Sha Tsui an ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
Fugitive Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died “whimpering and crying” in a raid by US special forces in northwest Syria, President Donald Trump has announced. Baghdadi, who had led the jihad ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-28
China is likely to become the first country in the world to start mining seabed minerals if the international rules for exploitation are approved next year, according to the International Seabed Autho ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-24
The Hong Kong government has formally withdrawn the extradition bill that sparked nearly five months of massive and often violent protests, but the move was unlikely to end the unrest as it met just o ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-23
A murder suspect whose case was used by the Hong Kong government to push for a controversial extradition bill walked free from jail in Hong Kong on Wednesday as the city’s authorities squabbled with T ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-23
Facebook, facing growing skepticism about its digital currency project Libra, said the initiative could use cryptocurrencies based on national currencies such as the US dollar, instead of the syntheti ...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
The United Kingdom's Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed confidence that British lawmakers will back the Brexit deal he clinched with the European Union, saying most agreed it was time to “get this ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-18
A Paris zoo has showcased a mysterious new organism, dubbed the “blob”, a yellowish unicellular small living being that looks like a fungus but acts like an animal. This newest exhibit of the Paris Zo ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-17
Chinese diplomats in the United States must now give advance notice of any meetings with state, local and municipal officials, as well as at educational and research institutions, senior State Departm ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-17
Kevin Boyle was a Northern Ireland-born human rights activist, barrister and educator. As a law lecturer in January 1969, in defiance of an appeal from the government of the day for a temporary end to ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-17
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is delivering her annual policy speech via video on Wednesday after she was thwarted from speaking in the Legislative Council due to intense heckling and pro ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-16
Authors' Note: The US Congress is currently considering the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019. If this bill becomes law it will increase conflict between the US and China and increase U ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-15
