... In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for sports and cultural events to be scrapped or curtailed for two weeks as concern mounted for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, while sources told Reuters the Inter ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-27
... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged sporting and cultural events be scrapped or curtailed for two weeks as part of containment efforts. Markets have begun pricing in the risk of a canceled Olym ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-27
As the coronavirus continues its global march, there is this question: how long will the epidemic last? Recently, Lee Hsien Loong, the Prime Minister of Singapore, made quite an interesting remark as ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-26
... nd Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met for talks. India’s capital has been a focus of unrest against the Citizenship Amendment Act, which makes it easier for non-Muslims from three neighboring Mus ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-26
Rival political factions competed to win favor with Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday after he plunged Malaysia into political turmoil by resigning as prime minister, reinforcing the likelihood his shock mo ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
... ble”, the prime minister’s office said in a statement. “It is essential to test all of the church members in order to contain the spread of the virus and relieve public anxiety,” the office said. The ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
... ngapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong that it would build a unified digital payments solution for the country. In the same year, the firm launched the virtual credit platform Razer Gold, which enab ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
... in their prime will be out of business for a while in the foreseeable future”. Founder Bang Si-hyuk held the biggest stake of about 43.06 percent in Big Hit Entertainment as of the end of 2018, follo ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
... Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and informed the visitor that China’s “most thorough and rigorous measures” to fight the outbreak were "producing results.” Xi has exuded confidence in this battle aga ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has submitted a letter of resignation to the country’s king, his office said on Monday, leaving the government in limbo amid talk of forming a new governing c ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-24
... perpower. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was at the airport to greet Trump and his wife, Melania, as they stepped off Air Force One. Folk dancers carrying colorful umbrellas danced alongside the red car ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-24
The fate of Malaysia’s ruling coalition hung in doubt on Monday, after surprise weekend talks between Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s party and other groups on forming a new government that would ex ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-24
... ” Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told state broadcaster RAI, warning numbers would likely rise in the coming days. “We will do everything we can to contain the contagion.” Almost a dozen towns ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-24
The Auschwitz Memorial criticized Amazon on Sunday for fictitious depictions of the Holocaust in its Prime series “Hunters” and for selling books of Nazi propaganda, Reuters reports. “Hunters”, releas ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-24
... f cases,” Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told state broadcaster RAI, warning that the numbers would likely rise in the coming days. “We will do everything we can to contain the contagion.” Italian heal ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-24
... number of prime-age people working – plain and simple. This factor lies at the heart of China and India’s growth stories over the past few decades. But a vibrant, growing workforce is not enough. Many ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-21
China cut the benchmark lending rate on Thursday, as widely expected, in a bid to lower financing costs for businesses and support the economy amid the coronavirus crisis. The one-year loan prime rate ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-21
... mark loan prime rate (LPR), which will be announced on Thursday, to lower borrowing costs and ease financial strains on companies hit by the virus epidemic, Reuters noted. Earlier this month, the PBoC ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
... r plan by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to increase tax revenues and counter a sharp economic slowdown due to weakening consumer demand. But the tax will hurt the country’s fledgling e-com ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
