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💪您的一杯咖啡錢 = 我們遠大的目標！捐款支持我們： https://pse.is/3jknpx 🔴Monday June 7th 2021 🔵2021年6月7日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🌛🇬🇧💰End of the honeymoon? Britain’s foreign-aid spending 蜜月期結束？英國的對外援助支出 Riding high in the polls and recently married, Boris Johnson must be feeling beloved. But one group that seems to be tiring of Britain’s prime min...

🔴Friday June 4th 2021 🔵2021年6月4日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🔢💰🔢All in the numbers: corporate-tax reform 一切都在字裡行間：改革公司稅 A long-overdue revolution in the way multinationals are taxed may be imminent, sparked by the sequence 7, 20, 139. Finance ministers from the G7, a club of rich countries, are expected to voice support for a global minimum tax rate...

🔴Thursday June 3rd 2021 🔵2021年6月3日星期四 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 💰💉💪A $2.4bn shot in the arm: financing COVAX 24億美元募給 COVAX：疫苗催落去 A fundraising summit yesterday got rich countries to pledge $2.4bn for COVAX, a partnership that buys covid-19 vaccines for poor countries. If they fulfill those promises, that will help COVAX meet its target of distributing 1....

🔴Wednesday June 2nd 2021 🔵2021年6月2日星期三 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 👷🌍👷Long way home: global labour markets 全球勞動力市場：還有漫漫長路要走… Today the International Labour Organisation, an arm of the United Nations, releases a report on employment trends during the pandemic. Last year was grim for workers around the world. Overall hours worked were down by 9% compare...

🔴Tuesday June 1st 2021 🔵2021年6月1日星期二 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 💰🇦🇪💰To buy in Dubai: UAE’s new foreign investment rules 買在杜拜：阿拉伯聯合大公國新的外資投資規定 Investing in the United Arab Emirates is about to get a lot more straightforward. Previously, foreigners wishing to break into the wealthy Gulf nation needed a local owner to take at least a 51% stake in th...

🔴Monday May 31st 2021 🔵2021年5月31日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 ⏰🇦🇷😅Restarting the debt clock: Argentina 阿根廷的還款期：不算，重來！ Today the Argentine government faces the first of a series of repayment dates for a $2.4bn debt to the Paris Club, an informal creditor group composed of rich countries. Default may be on the cards. On a European trip earlier this mont...

🔴Friday May 28th 2021 🔵2021年5月28日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🌈💰📈Cashing in its chips: Taiwan’s economy 台灣的經濟：兌現籌碼 Taiwan is home to just 0.3% of the world’s population, but over half of global semiconductor manufacture. That’s an enviable position given the chip shortage. Businesses from gadget-makers to auto-manufacturers the world over rely on Taiwan’...

🔴Thursday May 27th 2021 🔵2021年5月27日星期四 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 💰💰💰Boom boom boom boom: capital expenditure 鈔票花好花滿：資本支出 As lockdowns lift, consumers are splashing their cash—and they’re not the only ones. In America capital spending (or capex) by companies is rising at an annual rate of 15%. Is this boom merely a reflex response to reopening, or part of...

🔴Wednesday May 26th 2021 🔵2021年5月26日星期三 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 📹🚀🏃Mission impossible? The space film race 「不可能的任務」之外太空拍片競賽 Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, has picked an actor and a director to fly to the International Space Station in October. Their mission? To create the first feature-length motion picture filmed entirely in space, provisional...

🔴Tuesday May 25th 2021 🔵2021年5月25日星期二 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 👦🏿🇺🇸👮George Floyd, one year on: policing in America 喬治佛洛伊德逝世一週年：美國警務 A year ago George Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer who kneeled on his neck for over nine minutes. Today Mr Floyd’s family will meet President Joe Biden at the White House. Reverend Al Sha...

🔴Monday May 24th 2021 🔵2021年5月24日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🚀🚀🚀Drone wars: autonomous weapons 自動化武器：無人機大戰 Today military brass from around the world will meet, virtually, for the Future Artillery conference, an annual event looking at how munitions systems are evolving. There is increasing interest in the use of artificial intelligence in offensive we...

🔴Friday May 21st 2021 🔵2021年5月21日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇺🇸🤝🇰🇷Building back better: Joe Biden meets Moon Jae-in 重拾舊歡：當拜登會見文在寅 Today’s meeting at the White House between the presidents of America and South Korea is intended to strengthen an alliance that had come under strain during the Trump administration. The two leaders will present a harmonious...

🔴Thursday May 20th 2021 🔵2021年5月20日星期四 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 😷🌍💉It’s not just covid-19: health services in Africa 非洲的醫療服務：可怕的不只是新冠病毒 Fears have been rising this week that the covid-19 vaccination campaign in Africa is stalling. Many countries suffer shortages of jabs. Others have stocks they cannot use. Malawi has destroyed almost 20,000 expir...

🔴Wednesday May 19th 2021 🔵2021年5月19日星期三 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇫🇷🌍🇫🇷The Macron plan: France’s economic summit for Africa 馬克宏計畫：法國的非洲經濟高峰會 Face-to-face diplomacy returned to Paris yesterday, as African and other world leaders gathered at the invitation of President Emmanuel Macron to discuss how to finance the continent’s economic recovery from the...

🔴Tuesday May 18th 2021 🔵2021年5月18日星期二 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🎊3️⃣0️⃣🎊Independence day: Somaliland at 30 獨立日：索馬利蘭三十週年慶 Thirty years ago today Somaliland declared independence from Somalia. The country of 4.5m people in the Horn of Africa can look back on three relatively successful decades. Unlike its larger war-torn neighbour, Somaliland is stable an...

🔴Monday May 17th 2021 🔵2021年5月17日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 💰❓💰Gangnam-style numbers: Berkshire Hathaway’s share price 波克夏海瑟威的股價：與「江南 Style」的關聯？ What links Warren Buffett, a revered investor, and Psy, a Korean pop star? On May 4th the Nasdaq exchange was forced to exclude Class A shares in Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate headed by Mr Buff...

🔴Friday May 14th 2021 🔵2021年5月14日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇮🇱🔥🇵🇸Eternal recurrence: Israel and Palestine 永恆復始：以色列和巴勒斯坦 The latest round of warfare between Israel and the militant Palestinian organisations in the Gaza Strip, which began on Monday, is showing no signs of abating. Hamas and Islamic Jihad have launched nearly 2,000 rockets at Israeli tow...

🔴Thursday May 13th 2021 🔵2021年5月13日星期四 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 💰🇨🇳📈Open, sesame: Alibaba’s earnings 芝麻開門：阿里巴巴的獲利 Alibaba has a lot of explaining to do. The founder of the e-commerce empire, Jack Ma, has been tormented for months by Chinese authorities. Regulators have hit it with a $2.8bn fine, a record sum in China, and the group has been forced to ma...

🔴Wednesday May 12th 2021 🔵2021年5月12日星期三 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 💰🇯🇵📈On a roll: SoftBank Group 日本軟銀集團：苦盡甘來 Just a year ago, SoftBank Group posted a huge annual loss. Today Son Masayoshi, its founder and CEO, may announce the largest quarterly profit recorded by a listed Japanese firm in three decades. Its $98.6bn Vision Fund is expected to report up to $...

🔴Tuesday May 11th 2021 🔵2021年5月11日星期二 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 💰🇦🇺💰Bigger and better: Australia’s budget 給好給滿：澳洲的預算 Australia’s treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, will have plenty to feel pleased about when he delivers the budget today. Few expected the economy to be in such good shape. Compared with many countries Australia has breezed through the pandemic. GDP...

🔴Monday May 10th 2021 🔵2021年5月10日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🏭🇨🇳🍃Gorging on green: Chinese renewable energy 向綠前行：中國的可再生能源 Today China’s Three Gorges Corporation, a state-owned enterprise that operates the world’s largest hydroelectric dam by installed capacity, starts selling shares in its wind- and solar-power subsidiary. The proceeds, which could re...

🔴Friday May 7th 2021 🔵2021年5月7日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 💪🤝💪Hunting for fair treatment: indigenous rights in Taiwan 為平權努力：台灣原住民的權利 Today Taiwan’s highest court will rule in a landmark case for indigenous rights. The case centres on Talum Suqluman, a man from the Bunun tribe, who was convicted of illegal hunting in 2015. He had been hunting game fo...

🔴Thursday May 6th 2021 🔵2021年5月6日星期四 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🚫🇲🇲🚫Guilty until proven otherwise: Aung San Suu Kyi 有罪推定原則：翁山蘇姬 Ms Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto leader until the army seized power in February, is scheduled to appear in court today. She has been charged with six offences. The hearing, which is likely to be virtual, concerns the most serious al...

🔴Wednesday May 5th 2021 🔵2021年5月5日星期三 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇮🇹👀🇫🇷First glance: Stellantis 來瞧一眼：斯泰蘭蒂斯汽車集團 Stellantis reveals its first quarter results today. The carmaker was formed by a mega merger sealed in January between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA, a French firm that makes Peugeots and Citroëns. Investors will hope for some comment on the...

🔴Tuesday May 4th 2021 🔵2021年5月4日星期二 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇫🇷Awaiting the verdict: Marine Le Pen 法國極右派 - 勒朋女士 - 等待判決 A verdict is due in Marine Le Pen’s hate-speech trial today. The leader of the far-right National Rally (previously the National Front) was tried by a court for tweeting three violent images of Islamic State in 2015. Prosecutors have ask...