US President Donald Trump plans to announce in the next few weeks the most ambitious tax reform plan since the Reagan era, according to the White House. During a meeting with airline executives on Thu ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-10
Marine Le Pen, leader of France's far-right National Front (FN) party, launched her presidential campaign on Sunday, vowing to fight globalization and drastically curb the inflow of migrants. Addressi ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-06
More than 80 Islamic State militants, some of whom were believed to be plotting attacks in Europe, died in US air strikes on camps outside the group's former North African stronghold of Sirte in Libya ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-20
Italy's Luxottica and France's Essilor have signed a 46 billion euro (US$49 billion) merger to create a global eyewear powerhouse with annual revenue of more than 15 billion euros. The all-share deal ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-17
US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday warned of a "major border tax" on firms that shift jobs outside the United States, echoing the threats made during his election campaign. "You want to move ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-12
North Korea declared on Sunday that it can test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at any time, saying a hostile US policy is to blame for the nation's arms development. "The ICBM wil ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-09
Donald Trump's "clear warning" to North Korea shows that the US President-elect is aware of the urgency of the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear program, South Korea said on Tuesday. A foreign min ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-04
A Syrian migrant who arrived in Germany two years ago has been arrested on suspicion of seeking funds from Islamic State to drive truck bombs into a crowd, according to German state prosecutors. The a ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-03
Australian police said on Friday they have foiled an Islamic State-inspired terrorist plot to bomb prominent sites in Melbourne on Christmas Day. Six men and a woman, all in their 20s, were arrested i ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-23
Monte dei Paschi di Siena said its plan to raise on the market 5 billion euros (US$5.2 billion) in capital by the end of the year had failed, paving the way for a state bailout of Italy's third-larges ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-23
Taiwan accused China of using Sao Tome and Principe's financial woes to push its "one China" policy after the small West African state ended ties with the self-ruled island. Taiwan Foreign Minister Da ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-21
The Dow and Nasdaq Composite rose to record highs in a rally fueled by optimism about US President-elect Donald Trump's policies. The Dow Jones industrial average on Tuesday ended just 25 points shy o ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-21
Top executives of New York-based hedge fund manager Platinum Partners were arrested and charged with running a US$1 billion fraud. Federal prosecutors said the case was "like a Ponzi scheme" as its la ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-20
A truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on Monday evening, killing nine people and injuring up to 50 others, police said, in what appeared to be one of the deadliest attacks i ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-20
From the panel, the row of men and women stared at Harold. They watched, listened and watched some more. As usual, Harold was impeccably dressed in a suit and tie. When he was younger he had dreams of ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-19
Apple will launch a legal challenge this week to the European Union's record US$14 billion tax demand, arguing that EU regulators ignored tax experts and corporate law and deliberately picked a method ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-19
Health or family. That's the usual excuse a beleaguered politician gives when he is forced to bow out of office. In March 2005 then Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa said the “acute leg pain” he had been ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-14
When the Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte, the man dubbed "Trump of the East", told US businesses to pack their bags if they didn't like his anti-American rhetoric, the huge and growing outsourc ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-09
