US prosecutors are building cases that would accuse North Korea of directing the theft of US$81 million from the Bangladesh central bank's account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last year, th ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-23
Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp. has pleaded guilty in US federal court for conspiring to violate US sanctions against Iran by illegally shipping US goods and technology to the country. The g ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-23
... Brazil's Federal Police into meatpacking companies, calling their findings "alarmist" and saying they used a few isolated incidents to tarnish an entire industry that maintains rigorous standards. An ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-21
Director James Comey of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed for the first time that the bureau is investigating possible ties between Republican Donald Trump's presidential campaign and R ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-21
... es to the federal parliament from Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh, has been magnanimous in victory, pledging to uphold Modi's slogan of 'sabka saath, sabka vikas' ('all together, development for al ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-20
Hong Kong equities surged along with global markets after the US Federal Reserve announced a 25 basis points rate hike and kept its plan for two more rate increments within this year. Investors took c ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-17
A US federal judge in Hawaii dealt another legal blow to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, issuing an emergency halt to his revised travel ban just hours before it was set to go into effect early o ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-16
The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate for the second time in three months amid increased confidence over the prospects of the world's largest economy. In a widely expected move, th ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-16
... Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) is the successor to the KGB. Yahoo said when it announced the then-unprecedented breach last September that it believed the attack was state-sponsored, and on ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-16
... rights on federal lands. Among other changes, the new executive order is expected to instruct regulators to rescind regulations limiting oil industry emissions of methane, a particularly potent greenh ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-15
Iraqi forces said on Tuesday that they killed a top commander of the Islamic State (IS) in Mosul as a battle for the militants' last stronghold in Iraq entered a key phase. Reuters quoted federal poli ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-15
... halted by federal courts, the state of Washington, along with California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Oregon, filed court papers in a bid to prevent the March 6 order from taking effect, the ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-14
... he entire federal monarchy. Thanks to its well-established federal system under which the seven-member emirates are entitled to a high degree of autonomy, the UAE has been well-known for social and po ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-13
... ed by the federal government, violates a rule that bars elected officials from being party to the lease or benefiting from it. "We simply want to level the playing field so that all District of Columb ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-10
Market participants are factoring in a 90 percent chance for a March rate hike by the US Federal Reserve, as indicated by latest Fed funds futures. It is generally expected that the central bank will ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-09
The state of Hawaii can sue over President Donald Trump's new executive order temporarily banning the entry of refugees and travelers from six Muslim-majority countries, a federal judge ruled on Wedne ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-09
Financial markets had earlier been factoring in a 30 percent chance for a March rate hike by the US Federal Reserve. Now, after a series of comments from Fed officials, including chair Janet Yellen, t ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-08
... e. The US Federal Reserve may respond to such an increase by hiking its policy rate, a move that would ultimately lead to a rise in long-term interest rates and place further upward pressure on the do ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-06
... US law, a federal court would have to have found probable cause that the target of the surveillance is an "agent of a foreign power" in order to approve a warrant authorizing electronic surveillance o ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-06
... osal, the federal government is going to divert an extra US$54 billion to the Pentagon in the 2018 fiscal year, thereby driving total military expenditures up to US$603 billion, almost twice as much a ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-03
