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🔴Tuesday February 23rd 2021 🔵2021年2月23日星期二 1️⃣Royal Caribbean: still in business!? 皇家加勒比國際遊輪公司：船還要開！？ Royal Caribbean lost more than $1bn in the final three months of 2020. The American cruise line has suspended voyages since last March because of the covid-19 pandemic. Even so, the company said bookings for the first half of 2022 have rebounded—an early sign of pent-up d...

🔴Monday February 22nd 2021 🔵2021年2月22日星期一 1️⃣Banking in China: stricter rules on internet loans! 中國銀行業：線上放貸更嚴格！ China’s banking regulator finalised stricter rules on internet loans. Among other things, from July 2022 online lenders must provide 30% of the funding for loans made with commercial banks. The regulations will raise capital requirements for lenders such as Ant Grou...

🔴Friday February 5th 2021 🔵2021年2月5日星期五 1️⃣McKinsey feat. Purdue Pharma: it’s a shared blame! 麥肯錫 feat. 普渡製藥：上下交相賊！ McKinsey agreed to pay $573m to settle a case brought by dozens of American states which accused the consultancy of exacerbating the country’s opioids crisis. While advising Purdue Pharma, a large manufacturer of the drug, it allegedly devised a plan to concentr...

🔴Thursday February 4th 2021 🔵2021年2月4日星期四 1️⃣Mercedes-Benz’s parent company Daimler going through some big changes 賓士的母公司戴姆勒正展開些許大變革 Daimler announced plans to spin off Daimler Truck, the world’s largest truck and bus maker. The German carmaker, whose most famous marque is Mercedes-Benz, hopes that the move will allow the remainder of the firm to focus on zero-emission veh...

🔴Wednesday February 3rd 2021 🔵2021年2月3日星期三 1️⃣Trump’s legal team: it was free speech, not incitement! 川普的法律團隊：他是在行使言論自由，不是在煽動！ Donald Trump’s legal team and the Democrats in the House of Representatives prosecuting him in next week’s impeachment trial have filed briefs with the Senate. Democrats argue that Mr Trump whipped supporters “into a frenzy” on January 6th, ...

🔴Tuesday February 2nd 2021 🔵2021年2月2日星期二 1️⃣Israel delivered vaccines to Palestine: what’s the angle? 以色列向巴勒斯坦提供新冠疫苗：狼回頭？ Israel delivered 2,000 doses of Moderna’s covid-19 vaccine to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Israel has raced ahead with vaccinations; almost 20% of its population have received both shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab. But there has been no vac...

🔴Monday February 1st 2021 🔵2021年2月1日星期一 1️⃣2021 Nobel peace prize: Alexei Navalny it should be! 2021年的諾貝爾和平獎：納瓦尼當之無愧！ Russian security forces detained more than 5,000 people who were protesting across Russia against the jailing of Alexei Navalny, the most prominent critic of Vladimir Putin, Russia’s leader. Mr Navalny was recently arrested after returning from hospital tre...

🔴Friday January 29th 2021 🔵2021年1月29日星期五 1️⃣The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine: HALT! 牛津 - 阿斯利康的新冠疫苗：停！ An independent commission in Germany recommended that the Oxford-AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine not be given to people aged over 65. The panel, which advises the government, said there were “insufficient data” about the vaccine’s efficacy in that age group. AstraZeneca disputes t...

🔴Thursday January 28th 2021 🔵2021年1月28日星期四 1️⃣Rohingyas in Bangladesh: never consulted… 身在孟加拉的羅興亞人：從未被徵詢過… Bangladesh said it would move up to 3,000 more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal this week. Around 3,500 people have been relocated to Bhasan Char since December. Human-rights groups say that the island is flood-prone and unsuitable; Ban...

🔴Wednesday January 27th 2021 🔵2021年1月27日星期三 1️⃣EU supports electric vehicles: better late than never 歐盟支持電動車：遲到總比不到好 The EU approved a €2.9bn ($3.5bn) plan to support the production of batteries for electric vehicles within the bloc. The project will give state aid to firms including Tesla, BMW, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and others in an attempt to compete with China, which...

🔴Tuesday January 26th 2021 🔵2021年1月26日星期二 1️⃣Italian politics: NO is not the true thought in my mind… 義大利政治：餓死鬼會裝客氣… Giuseppe Conte, Italy’s prime minister, will offer President Sergio Mattarella his resignation on Tuesday, Mr Conte’s office said. The prime minister has been under pressure to quit since a small allied party broke away from the ruling coalition earlier this mon...

🔴Monday January 25th 2021 🔵2021年1月25日星期一 1️⃣US feat. Taiwan & Japan v. China 美國 feat. 台灣 & 日本 vs. 中國 Tensions rose between China and America, after Chinese air-force planes flew into Taiwan’s air-defence zone on consecutive days over the weekend. The Biden administration reaffirmed its commitment not just to Taiwan, but also to Japan; Lloyd Austin, the new defence secretary...

🔴Friday January 22nd 2021 🔵2021年1月22日星期五 1️⃣Biden’s Day One: taking care of what should have been done! 拜登走馬上任的第一天：亡羊補牢，猶未遲也！ President Joe Biden focused on covid-19 on his first full day in office, signing ten executive orders to increase testing, accelerate vaccinations and boost domestic production of protective equipment, among other measures. Meanwhile Anthony Fau...

🔴Thursday January 21st 2021 🔵2021年1月21日星期四 1️⃣Biden sworn in as the 46th president of America 拜登宣誓成為美國第四十六任總統 In his inaugural address President Joe Biden declared that “democracy has prevailed”. Speaking immediately after being sworn in as the 46th president of America, Mr Biden acknowledged the suffering wrought by the coronavirus pandemic and by deep political divisions....

🔴Tuesday January 19th 2021 🔵2021年1月19日星期二 1️⃣UN: pay before you may cast votes! 聯合國：投票前請先繳清欠款！ Seven members of the UN General Assembly have lost their voting rights after falling behind on money owed to the international organisation, according to Antonio Guterres, the secretary-general. The Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Iran, Libya, Niger, South Sudan and Zim...

🔴Wednesday January 20th 2021 🔵2021年1月20日星期三 1️⃣Investment banking: may want to thank Covid-19? 投行事業：因新冠病毒而樂開懷？ Goldman Sachs reported record revenues in the last three months of 2020 and net income of $4.5bn, up by 135% year-on-year. The bank’s trading and investment banking divisions thrived despite the pandemic. Although Bank of America reported net income down by 22%, its...

🔴Monday January 18th 2021 🔵2021年1月18日星期一 1️⃣Biden’s inauguration: something you don’t see everyday! 拜登的就職典禮：有難得一見之景！ Troops from the National Guard are on standby in at least 19 American states in anticipation of protests in support of President Donald Trump. State officials are determined to prevent a repeat of the attack on the Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 6th. A...

🔴Friday January 15th 2021 🔵2021年1月15日星期五 1️⃣Covid-19 in China: miss me? 新冠病毒在中國：想我嗎？ Mainland China recorded its first death from covid-19 since May. It occurred in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, where 23m people are under some form of restrictions following the country’s biggest outbreak since the summer. Heilongjiang province, in the north-east, has also reported ne...

🔴Thursday January 14th 2021 🔵2021年1月14日星期四 1️⃣Trump’s second impeachment: never happened before 川普的第二次彈劾案：前無古人 America’s House of Representatives made Donald Trump the first president to be impeached twice, this time for inciting an attack on the Capitol. Ten Republicans joined all 222 Democrats in the vote. To be removed from office Mr Trump would need to be convicted by the...

🔴Wednesday January 13th 2021 🔵2021年1月13日星期三 1️⃣US Casino Lord dies: a financial loss to the Republicans 美國賭王逝世：共和黨少了個大金主 Sheldon Adelson, an American casino magnate and financier of right-wing political candidates, died of cancer on Monday, aged 87. Mr Adelson, who owned casinos in Las Vegas, Macau and Singapore, was the largest single donor to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign,...

🔴Tuesday January 12th 2021 🔵2021年1月12日星期二 1️⃣Israel in the West Bank: it’s political…again 在約旦河西岸的以色列：始終難解的政治問題… Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, ordered 800 new homes for Jewish settlers to be built in the occupied West Bank. The move may aggravate Joe Biden, who seems set to restore America’s previous position, abandoned under Donald Trump, of treating suc...

🔴Monday January 11th 2021 🔵2021年1月11日星期一 1️⃣Democracy under “constant” attack: any solution? 接連被挑戰的民主制度：又該如何是好？ The European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs, Josep Borrell, said in a new blog post that the raid on the Capitol by Mr Trump’s supporters last Wednesday was a “wake-up call” for democracies. Mr Borrell claimed the attack on Congress, which left...

🔴Friday January 8th 2021 🔵2021年1月8日星期五 1️⃣Moderna’s vaccines: a potentially upsetting news… 莫德納疫苗：可能有個壞消息… The covid-19 vaccine developed by Moderna will probably offer protection against the virus for up to two years, according to the company’s chief executive. The speed at which vaccines have been developed means scientists have less data than they usually would about the lo...

🔴Thursday January 7th 2021 🔵2021年1月7日星期四 1️⃣US feat. Taiwan v. China: over and over again… 美國 feat. 台灣 vs. 中國：一而再、再而三的戲碼… In an unusual move, America published the schedule of planned talks with Taiwan, which will start online today. Discussions are expected to focus on development, military co-operation and arms deals. China objects to communication between the two, espec...

🔴Wednesday January 6th 2021 🔵2021年1月6日星期三 1️⃣Vaccinations in France and Germany: nothing close to efficiency 法國以及德國的疫苗接種：效率很待加強 France announced that firemen, carers older than 50 and people over 75 who are not in care homes will receive covid-19 vaccinations. The government has been criticised for sluggishness, vaccinating only 7,000 people so far. Germany—despite admini...