The British government is working on the assumption that the European Union will not renegotiate its Brexit deal, and is ramping up preparations to leave the bloc on Oct. 31 without an agreement, Reut ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-29
A week before suspected triad gang members attacked protesters and commuters at the Yuen Long MTR Station last Sunday, an official from China’s representative office urged local residents to drive awa ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-26
Four major automakers have reached an agreement with California on fuel efficiency rules, bypassing a Trump administration effort to strip the state of the right to fight climate change by setting its ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-26
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller emphasized he had not exonerated US President Donald Trump of obstruction of justice, as the president has claimed, but his long-awaited congressional testimony d ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
China’s defense ministry warned on Wednesday that it was ready for war if there was a move toward Taiwan’s independence, accusing the United States of undermining global stability and denouncing its a ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-24
For years, the growth in e-commerce has outpaced the underlying payments technology. With an aim to simplify payments, US-based startup Stripe has emerged as a key player in the financial technology r ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-24
US President Donald Trump said he believes Chinese President Xi Jinping has acted “very responsibly” with the protests in Hong Kong over an extradition bill that could see people from the territory se ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
Britain called for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, days after Iran seized a British-flagged tanker in what London described as an act of “state pirac ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
Britain was weighing its next moves in the Gulf tanker crisis on Sunday, with few good options apparent as a recording emerged showing that the Iranian military defied a British warship when it boarde ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-22
Boris Johnson, favored to become Britain’s new prime minister, said the country could agree a free trade deal to leave the European Union that would remove the need for one of the more problematic par ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-22
Digital currencies such as Facebook’s planned Libra raise serious concerns and must be regulated as tightly as possible to ensure they do not upset the world’s financial system, Group of Seven finance ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-19
Iran is ready to hold talks with the United States if Washington lifts sanctions and returns to the 2015 nuclear deal it quit last year, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said. “We have always believed ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-15
Singapore reported dismal preliminary second-quarter growth data on Friday, including the slowest pace of annual expansion in a decade, raising bets that a recession and monetary policy easing could b ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-12
