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🔴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...

🔴Monday May 3rd 2021 🔵2021年5月3日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🕯️1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🕯️Unhappy birthday: Northern Ireland’s centenary 生日不快樂：北愛爾蘭一百週年紀念 Today marks 100 years since the creation of Northern Ireland. The Government of Ireland Act, passed by Westminster in 1920, had partitioned the island of Ireland, against the background of a war of independence waged...

🔴Friday April 30th 2021 🔵2021年4月30日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 ❓❓❓What comes next: the history of post-pandemic booms 疫病大流行後的繁榮：大難不死真有後福？ The virus continues to rage in poor countries. But rich ones are on the brink of a post-pandemic boom, as case numbers slide. American GDP figures released yesterday show it is nearly back to its pre-pandemic...

🔴Thursday April 29th 2021 🔵2021年4月29日星期四 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 💻💪📱💰The geopolitics of chipmaking: TSMC 晶片的地緣政治：護國神山台積電 Like British menus, the modern world requires chips with everything. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company dominates the industry, controlling 84% of the market for cutting-edge chips, and wants to increase that share. This...

🔴Wednesday April 28th 2021 🔵2021年4月28日星期三 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 💪🇫🇷💪Macron clamps down: France’s new anti-terrorism law 馬克宏硬起來：法國新的反恐法 Five days ago a female police official was stabbed to death at a police station in Rambouillet, south-west of Paris, in a terrorist attack. Today the French government will consider a new draft anti-terrorism law. P...

🔴Tuesday April 27th 2021 🔵2021年4月27日星期二 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 ➡️🚗⬅️Mind your back, Mr Musk: Tesla and its competitors 馬斯克腹背受敵：特斯拉的競爭群雄並起 Before hosting “Saturday Night Live” on May 8th, Elon Musk, the “technoking” of Tesla, will have some serious questions to answer when his electric-vehicle firm reports first-quarter earnings today. Many will b...

🔴Monday April 26th 2021 🔵2021年4月26日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 😱😨😰Parleying on Apple: the controversial app returns Parler：辣個極具爭議性的 App 捲土重來 Exile has been hard for Parler, which this week returns to the Apple app store. The Twitter clone beloved by the far right was kicked off Apple’s and Google’s app stores, as well as Amazon’s servers, following t...

🔴Friday April 23rd 2021 🔵2021年4月23日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🕵🐘🕵The elephant in the room: ASEAN’s summit on Myanmar 非禮勿言：東南亞國協高峰會 feat. 緬甸 Tomorrow the club of South-East Asian countries will hold an emergency meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, to discuss the crisis in Myanmar. The army seized power in a coup in February and has since killed...

🔴Thursday April 22nd 2021 🔵2021年4月22日星期四 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇺🇸🌍🇺🇸Promising the earth: Biden’s climate summit 為地球盡一份心力：拜登的氣候高峰會 Today—Earth Day—Joe Biden, America’s president, will host 40 world leaders in a virtual two-day “climate summit”. His goal is a grand one: to persuade other countries to take more action on climate change, while also r...

🔴Wednesday April 21st 2021 🔵2021年4月21日星期三 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🍃🇪🇺💰Green indecision: sustainable finance in Europe 綠色猶豫不決：歐洲的可持續金融 Today the European Commission is expected to publish a second draft of its proposal for a green “taxonomy”. The classification system aims to define which economic activities count as sustainable in high-emitting sect...

🔴Tuesday April 20th 2021 🔵2021年4月20日星期二 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 😵🇷🇺😵Not going quietly: Navalny v Putin 納瓦尼 vs. 普丁：死也要拉你墊背 Yesterday Russia’s prison service said that Alexei Navalny’s health was “satisfactory”, but that he had been moved to an infirmary—nearly three weeks into a hunger strike to demand access to his preferred doctor. But the opposition...

🔴Monday April 19th 2021 🔵2021年4月19日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 😠⛳️😠Fighting over the fore-fathers: Ohio’s golfing dispute 先烈爭奪戰：美國俄亥俄州的高爾夫糾紛 The Moundbuilders Country Club in Newark, Ohio boasts a unique golf course. The 18 holes are positioned among a series of mounds, which can make certain shots almost blind. First developed in 1911, the cour...

🔴Friday April 16th 2021 🔵2021年4月16日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🙅‍♀️🇨🇺🙅‍♂️No más: Castros, not communism 拜託別再來：這不是共產主義，是卡斯楚兄弟 Cuba’s ruling Communist Party begins its annual congress today. It will be the last with a Castro in a top leadership role. Raúl Castro, who is 89, has run the island since his late brother, Fidel, became ill in 2006. Hav...

🔴Thursday April 15th 2021 🔵2021年4月15日星期四 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🏃‍♂️🇺🇸🏃‍♂️The final withdrawal: America leaves Afghanistan 最終局：美軍撤離阿富汗 President Joe Biden has officially announced that almost all of the remaining 2,500 American troops in Afghanistan will leave by September 11th, the 20th anniversary of the attacks that led to their deployment. Mr Biden...

🔴Wednesday April 14th 2021 🔵2021年4月14日星期三 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦Trouble at the border: will Russia invade Ukraine? 邊境衝突：俄羅斯會入侵烏克蘭嗎？ Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have been growing for weeks following the breakdown of a ceasefire in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, which Russia invaded in 2014, and a massing of Russian forces nearby...