Uber Technologies and Lyft, the two leading US ride-hailing companies, are on divergent paths as Uber pours money into money-losing side businesses while smaller rival Lyft focuses on moving people ar ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
... to help residents cope with the economic impact of the outbreak. In Macau, mortgage payers are allowed to delay their principal repayments for up to six months. This has prompted the Alliance for Car ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-04
US President Donald Trump proposed creating a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace plan, drawing Palestinian condemnation for imposing strict conditions and agreeing to let Israel maintain ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-29
... d by both side to negotiate. Almost no one doubts that the impact of the tariffs would have been much greater if these were maintained. Of course, the trade war has been widely used as an excuse to ju ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-24
... on Tien’s side: the Legco election is only a lttle more than half a year away, and this raises serious question as to whether Tien can recruit the right persons, formulate his party constitution and o ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-22
The Republican-controlled US Senate rejected a second Democratic bid to obtain documents and evidence in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, an early sign the trial could proceed along lines f ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-22
More than seven months into the civil unrest in Hong Kong, the war between the “yellow” and “blue” camps appears to have ground to a stalemate, with neither side being able to gain an upper hand. For ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-21
... ing the upside against the downside. Yet the question is, will such plan really work? My answer is in the negative. It is because, as media reports have pointed out, the outlets or stores that were va ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-21
... ssions. Besides, such demands as pardoning arrested protesters, holding the police accountable for its brutality and delivering universal suffrage are not only untimely at this stage but also not up t ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-15
The election last Saturday, in which Tsai Ing-wen won a second term as president, shows democracy maturing in Taiwan, which only started direct presidential elections in 1996. Political power has now ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-14
... s of your side. This win condition is checked only at the end of a round, i.e. after all five major powers have taken their turns. There is an alternative ending - humans losing the world to zombies. ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-10
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton said on Monday that he is willing to testify in the expected Senate impeachment trial of the US president, a surprise development that could ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
... the only side blaming the court on unreasonable grounds. The pro-democracy bloc and netizens, too, have often been lambasting the judiciary for making court rulings that aren’t to their liking. As bo ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-02
... turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, one of the Middle East and North Africa’s most brutal leaders, to squash last year’s protests. The question is for how long. The question is all the more relevan ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-02
... genda. President Xi Jinping and other leading mainland officials, including the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office director Zhang Xiaoming, have repeatedly said that Hong Kong urgently needs this, to ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-02
... st. US President Donald Trump, who faces a re-election campaign in 2020, accused Iran of orchestrating the violence. He threatened on Tuesday to retaliate against Iran but said later he did not want w ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-02
... et’s walk side by side”, in Chinese. However, the fake poster changes the wording to "Do not forget revenge, let’s renovate the whole city”. The wording in Chinese was altered, as well as the main gra ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-31
... rn in the side of investors next year. Agreement on a “Phase One” trade deal, which will see some tariffs rolled back, was good news and gave a shot in the arm for sentiment. However, negotiations on ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-31
... if either side shirks its commitments. As a result, a broad Sino-American decoupling will likely intensify over time, and is all but certain in the technology sector. The US regards China’s quest to a ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-24
