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
Singapore’s economy could enter a recession due to the blow from the coronavirus outbreak, its prime minister said in comments reported by the Straits Times newspaper on Friday. “I can’t say whether w ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
... Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen greeted the passengers with handshakes and bouquets of roses as they stepped off the ship and boarded a waiting bus. “My wife and I gave him some chocolates as a show ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
Boris Johnson forced the resignation of his finance minister for refusing to toe the line, a sign the prime minister was tightening his control in a government reshuffle designed to deliver his vision ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
... aoiseach (prime minister), has ruled out talks with Sinn Féin so vehemently that it will be hard for him or his party to change their tune now. But Fianna Fáil and its leader, Micheál Martin, have mor ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-12
Australia is on track to meet just two of its targets aimed at improving the lives of its Indigenous people, including increasing life expectancy and improving literacy, Prime Minister Scott Morrison ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-12
... are more prime, but Fed Rate is too high, Dollar tough on exports.” Powell, asked about the tweet and the market moves, said the Fed is focused only on achieving its goals of full employment and stab ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-12
Amazon.com Inc. tapped Sony Corp executive Mike Hopkins to lead its Prime video platform as well as its movie and television studios, Reuters reports. Hopkins, currently chairman of Sony Pictures Tele ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-11
... al,” Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha told reporters on Sunday from Nakhon Ratchasima after traveling there to meet wounded survivors. Prayuth added that the conflict was with a relative of the s ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
... embers of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives who have demanded that Huawei must not have a role in Britain’s 5G mobile network are conducting “a kind of witch-hunt”. Last month, the governme ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
