Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in the United States on Thursday on a trip that has angered Beijing, warning that democracy must be defended and that the island faced threats from “overseas f ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-12
Twitter Inc. said its microblogging platform was back up partially after suffering a worldwide outage for more than an hour, Reuters reports. "We were down ... and now slowly coming back up. Sorry!," ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-12
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was “working through” a bout of shaking that first occurred in mid-June and struck for the third time on Wednesday, though she insisted she was fine and that “ ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-11
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has set the stage for the first US rate cut in a decade this month, as records from policymakers’ latest meeting showed increasing fear that a US-China trade war ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-11
The United States would hope to see a freeze in the North Korean nuclear program as the start of a process of denuclearization, not the end of it, Washington said on Tuesday, Reuters reports. “(A) fre ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-10
China is not interested in a diplomatic war with Britain but rejects the “Cold War mentality” it has seen from some British politicians over Hong Kong, China’s ambassador to London said on Sunday. Chi ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-08
Deutsche Bank is set to axe vast swathes of its trading desks in a restructuring that will see 18,000 jobs go and cost 7.4 billion euros (US$8.3 billion), Reuters reports. The plan represents a major ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-08
Australia's consumer watchdog has sued Samsung's Australian unit for allegedly misleading consumers by promoting water-resistant Galaxy smartphones as suitable to use in swimming pools and the surf, R ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-05
China told Britain to keep its hands off Hong Kong while London called for Beijing to honor the agreements made when the city was handed over in 1997, escalating a diplomatic spat over the former Brit ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-04
European Union leaders agreed on Tuesday to name France’s Christine Lagarde as the new head of the European Central Bank (ECB) and also sealed a deal on filling the EU’s other top four jobs, Reuters r ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-03
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump agreed at their meeting on Sunday to push forward dialogue for making a new breakthrough in the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-02
The United States and China agreed to restart trade talks after President Donald Trump offered concessions, including no new tariffs and an easing of restrictions on tech company Huawei in order to re ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-02
US President Donald Trump said a trade deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping was possible this weekend but he is prepared to impose US tariffs on virtually all remaining Chinese imports if the two co ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-27
Facebook dismissed calls for a break-up of the social network giant and other big internet firms on Monday, saying this would not tackle issues such as privacy, attempts to influence elections or harm ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-25
The United States is looking for talks with Iran to help ease tensions in the Persian Gulf region, with President Donald Trump saying he is not seeking war with Tehran. “I’m not looking for war,” Trum ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-24
