A US court has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay US$417 million to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer after using the company's talc-based products like Johnson's Baby Powder for femi ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-22
... the high court in Madrid, which has jurisdiction over terrorism matters. Abouyaaqoub lived in Ripoll, a town in the Pyrenees mountains north of Barcelona close to the French border. Islamic State als ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-22
... d to seek court approval on Monday for the sale of Oncor to Berkshire for US$9 billion over opposition from its biggest creditor, hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. Instead, Energy Future lawyer Cha ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-22
... Hong Kong court found five Uber drivers guilty of the crime in March and fined them HK$10,000 each. Uber has said it would help the drivers to appeal and criticized authorities for failing to keep up ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-21
... ai to the Court of Final Appeal in Central. Police estimated the crowd at 22,000 at its peak while the organizers did not give a number. On Thursday, the Court of Appeal sentenced three former student ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-21
Shortly after student leaders Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow were sentenced to 6-8 months in prison by the Court of Appeal last week, the pan-democrats published a joint statement demanding tha ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-21
A lawsuit filed in a US federal court has accused a Nestle SA unit of duping American consumers into paying premium prices for ordinary groundwater that’s pumped from some of Maine’s most populated ar ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-21
... y a lower court which gave community service orders and a suspended jail sentence. Weiss said the pro-democracy trio led the Umbrella Movement with the intention of “defending Hong Kong’s freedoms”. ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-18
Pan-democrats slammed the government over the jailing of three young activists, calling it political repression, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. Overturning a lower court's ruling, the Court o ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-18
China's top court ruled on Wednesday that JDB (China) Drink Company and Guangzhou Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Holdings (00874.HK) can continue to use similar packaging for their herbal tea beverage prod ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-18
In an emotional but expected postscript to the 2014 Occupy Movement, the Court of Appeal on Thursday sentenced three student leaders who kicked off the 79-day pro-democracy protests to prison sentence ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-17
The Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS) will release 620 units under the Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) for application by the end of October this year. The new flats include 330 units at Chui Ling Court in ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-17
... loon City court on Thursday. Lau said she had not known Lam that long but she knows he is an honest man. She said she once nominated Lam to be the vice chairman of the party. Critics accused Lam of fa ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-17
... when the Court of Appeal gives its ruling on Thursday. The trio stormed a barricaded area outside government headquarters on Sept. 26, 2014, a few days before the Occupy protests began. Wong and Law ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-17
... istrates’ Court on Thursday morning. Lam had been sent to Queen Elizabeth Hospital after complaining of feeling unwell, but was later able to appear in court. Lam underwent a brain scan and was taken ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-17
... hs by the Court of Appeal, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. The court acted on an appeal by the Department of Justice for harsher punishment for the protesters, who were opposing a government d ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-16
It was a sad day again for Hong Kong's young activists on Tuesday as the Court of Appeal increased the punishment for 13 activists, who stormed the Legislative Council complex in June 2014, to jail te ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-16
Following the High Court decision to disqualify four localist lawmakers last month, the Legislative Council Commission hired a barrister to seek independent legal advice on whether it should demand fu ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-16
... year, has courted China and avoided rows over maritime sovereignty that dogged his predecessors, while berating traditional ally the United States over several issues. China has built seven islands up ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-16
... Shanghai court in June. Crown executive chairman John Alexander said in a statement that he was "very pleased" staff were being reunited with their families. He expressed gratitude for the help prov ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-14
