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
Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker Prize on Monday in a surprise double award in which the literary prize recognized its oldest and fi ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-15
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
EJ Insight2019-10-14
The Australian government has ordered the competition watchdog to investigate why banks failed to pass three official interest rate cuts this year in full, less than a year after a public inquiry expo ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-14
Apple has removed from its app store an application, HKmap.live, which protesters in Hong Kong have used to track police movements, saying the app violated its rules. The move came after the US tech g ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-10
Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has dismissed suggestions that her new anti-mask law has proved to be a dud, arguing that it is too early to determine the effectiveness of the measure in ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-08
Embattled Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Saturday urged the public to condemn violence and dissociate themselves from rioters after a night of chaos in which police shot a teenage boy a ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-05
President Donald Trump again invited foreign interference in a US presidential election by publicly calling on China to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, the kind of request that has a ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-04
Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at pro-democracy protesters throwing petrol bombs in Hong Kong on Tuesday as China celebrated the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic. Ca ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-01
Boris Johnson said he would not quit as Britain’s prime minister even if he fails to secure a deal to leave the European Union, insisting only his Conservative government can deliver Brexit on Oct. 31 ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-30
