Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede who inspired millions of young people to take action against climate change, has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019. Thunberg launched a grass ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-12
... ng a Love Actually segment in their campaign do much to stifle the seemingly turning tides? The following are my thoughts and observations about past elections and the upcoming one (2015, 2017, and 20 ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-11
... iven the fact that the launch site is closely related to Pyongyang’s Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program, some experts believe North Korea may have achieved major breakthroughs in ballis ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-11
Evidently stung by the passage of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act by the United States, the Hong Kong government has made a multi-barreled response: denied that human rights have been ero ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-09
... Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) from at least 2000 to 2016 by engaging in a scheme to pay bribes and to falsify books and records and by failing to implement reasonable internal accounting controls, the ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-09
... Democracy Act into law. And after about a week of relative tranquility, our city once again saw the eruption of violent protests. Meanwhile, over the last couple of days, state leaders in Beijing bega ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-05
... gly unattractive; but the only alternative – the Liberal Democrats – has struggled to fill the void. Only regional parties – the Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru in Wales, and the Democratic Union ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-05
... ica takes actions to hurt China’s interests we won’t take any action?” Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying was quoted as saying when asked whether the Uighur bill would affect the Sino-U ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-05
... he Uighur Act of 2019 is a stronger version of a bill that angered Beijing when it passed the Senate in September. It calls on US President Donald Trump to impose sanctions for the first time on a mem ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-04
... get their act together and carve out a niche for themselves in the local financial landscape. A challenger bank, or a virtual bank, is defined as a bank that primarily delivers retail banking services ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-04
France and the European Union said they are ready to retaliate if US President Donald Trump acted on a threat to impose duties of up to 100 percent on imports of champagne, handbags and other French p ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-04
After getting swiftly passed by both houses of US Congress, the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and the Protect Hong Kong Act were signed into law by President Donald Trump last Wednesday. Th ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-03
... Democracy Act signed into US law last week was “wholly unnecessary” as the city grapples with its first recession in a decade. The act requires the US State Department to certify at least annually tha ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-03
... r Privacy Act (CCPA), the report noted. The California law requires large businesses to give consumers more transparency and control over their personal information, such as allowing them to request t ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-03
... criminal acts”, Reuters reports. The measures were announced by China’s Foreign Ministry in response to US legislation passed last week supporting anti-government protesters. It said it had suspended ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-03
With US President Donald Trump signing the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act into law, it means that from now on Washington will be examining the status of human rights and the degree of autono ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-02
... that are actually detrimental to public welfare. Unfortunately, by the time the need for legislation or regulation becomes apparent, the innovators have their billions – and they can use that money t ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-02
