The US government will pay American farmers hurt by the trade war with China between US$15 and US$150 per acre in an aid package totaling US$16 billion, Reuters reports The assistance, starting in Aug ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-26
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected the demonstration of a “new-type tactical guided weapon” on Thursday as a warning to South Korea to stop importing high-tech weapons and conducting joint mili ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-26
Four major automakers have reached an agreement with California on fuel efficiency rules, bypassing a Trump administration effort to strip the state of the right to fight climate change by setting its ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-26
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller emphasized he had not exonerated US President Donald Trump of obstruction of justice, as the president has claimed, but his long-awaited congressional testimony d ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
North Korea fired at least two projectiles early on Thursday from its eastern coast, which Japanese government sources confirmed to Kyodo news were short-range ballistic missiles, Reuters reports. The ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said online giant Amazon.com Inc. “destroyed the retail industry across the United States”. Mnuchin said he looked forward to hearing the results of a Justice Depa ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
Boris Johnson is the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He defeated Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in an election decided by 160,000 members of the Conservative Party. There are several burning ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
Boris Johnson promised in his first speech as prime minister to lead Britain out of the European Union on Oct. 31 with “no ifs or buts” and warned that if the bloc refused to negotiate then there woul ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
Army Secretary Mark Esper was sworn in as US secretary of defense on Tuesday, hours after being confirmed by the Senate in a strong bipartisan vote that ended the longest period by far the Pentagon ha ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-24
China said US officials were behind violent chaos in Hong Kong and warned against interference, following a series of protests in the city, including bloody clashes on the weekend, Reuters reports. “W ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-24
The US Justice Department said it was opening a broad investigation of major digital technology firms into whether they engage in anticompetitive practices, Reuters reports. The review will look into ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-24
The Federal Trade Commission is set to announce that Facebook Inc. has agreed to a sweeping settlement of significant allegations it mishandled user privacy and pay US$5 billion, Reuters reports, citi ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-24
Boris Johnson, the Brexiteer who has promised to lead Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal by the end of October, will replace Theresa May as prime minister after winning the leade ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-24
US President Donald Trump said he believes Chinese President Xi Jinping has acted “very responsibly” with the protests in Hong Kong over an extradition bill that could see people from the territory se ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
US President Donald Trump told the Pentagon to find better ways to procure a rare earth magnet used in specialty motors, warning that the nation’s defense would suffer without adequate stockpiles, Reu ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
Britain called for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, days after Iran seized a British-flagged tanker in what London described as an act of “state pirac ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. secretly helped North Korea build and maintain its commercial wireless network, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing sources and internal documents. The Chinese ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
Many Taiwanese high-end electronics makers are shifting part of their production lines from mainland China back to the island to avoid tariffs and other restrictions from the United States. Industry c ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-22
Britain was weighing its next moves in the Gulf tanker crisis on Sunday, with few good options apparent as a recording emerged showing that the Iranian military defied a British warship when it boarde ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-22
