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🔴Thursday March 11th 2021 🔵2021年3月11日星期四 1️⃣The man who denies Covid-19, is now struggling with it 辣個不承認有新冠病毒的男人確診了 Nation, a Kenyan newspaper, reported that an African leader is suffering covid-19 symptoms and is on a ventilator in one of Kenya’s private hospitals. Reports speculated that it is John Magufuli, Tanzania’s president, who was last seen in public last month. Mr...

🔴Tuesday March 9th 2021 🔵2021年3月9日星期二 1️⃣President Joe Biden on Gender Equality 美國總統拜登為性別平權 President Joe Biden signed two executive orders on International Women’s Day. One creates a Gender Policy Council to co-ordinate work across executive departments and report to him annually on how policy affects gender equality. The other will review some changes to policy made under Dona...

🔴Monday March 8th 2021 🔵2021年3月8日星期一 1️⃣Switzerland: no more burqa and niqab 瑞士：禁止伊斯蘭女性的傳統服飾 Switzerland will ban the wearing of religious face coverings in public, following a controversial referendum yesterday. The ban is seen as being directed at the coverings worn by Muslim women, including the burqa and niqab. It was proposed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, whic...

🔴Friday March 5th 2021 🔵2021年3月5日星期五 1️⃣When the Fed speaks: it’s gonna be 50 50 當美聯準會開口：不是大好，就是大壞 Markets fell following a speech by Jerome Powell, chairman of America’s Federal Reserve. He said he expects a short-term rise in inflation, but not sharp enough to increase interest rates. Mr Powell insisted that the Fed will keep rates near zero until America reaches “maximu...

🔴Thursday March 4th 2021 🔵2021年3月4日星期四 1️⃣Myanmar: this is getting really bad… 緬甸：情勢真的愈加嚴峻… At least 38 people, including one 14-year-old, were killed by security forces in Myanmar. Videos showed officers firing slingshots at protesters and beating up an ambulance crew. Demonstrators have been flooding the streets since a military coup toppled the democratically elected governme...

🔴Wednesday March 3rd 2021 🔵2021年3月3日星期三 1️⃣SoundCloud: changes that some may dislike but more may like… SoundCloud：難以兩全其美的變革… SoundCloud announced it will become the first music-streaming service to direct subscribers’ fees only to the artists they listen to, starting on April 1st. Other platforms such as Apple Music and Spotify divide royalties based on which artists have the mo...

🔴Tuesday March 2nd 2021 🔵2021年3月2日星期二 1️⃣Fiat Chrysler Automobiles: guilty as charged! 飛雅特-克萊斯勒汽車集團：當之有罪！ Fiat Chrysler Automobiles pleaded guilty to conspiring to make lavish and illegal gifts, worth more than $3.5m, to leaders of the United Auto Workers, an American trade union. The Italian-American carmaker (whose largest shareholder, Exor, part-owns The Economist) rece...

🔴Monday March 1st 2021 🔵2021年3月1日星期一 1️⃣J&J’s vaccine: finally my turn! 嬌生公司的疫苗：終於輪到我了！ The US Food and Drugs Administration, America’s drugs regulator, granted emergency authorisation to a third vaccine, a jab developed by Johnson & Johnson. Although the J&J vaccine is not as effective as those developed by Pfizer and Moderna, it requires only a single dose, is...

🔴Friday February 26th 2021 🔵2021年2月26日星期五 1️⃣Ceasefire between India and Pakistan: better late than never! 印巴停火：遲到總比不到好！ India and Pakistan agreed on a ceasefire for the first time in almost 20 years. Cross-border skirmishes—particularly along the Line of Control, the de facto border between Indian and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir—have become more frequent in recent y...

🔴Thursday February 25th 2021 🔵2021年2月25日星期四 1️⃣Ghana: thank you COVAX! 西非迦納：感恩 COVAX、讚嘆 COVAX！ A shipment of covid-19 jabs from COVAX, a global vaccine-sharing initiative, arrived in Ghana—the first recipient under the scheme. Ghana received 600,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca shot, produced by the Serum Institute of India, after officials proved that the country had suffici...

🔴Wednesday February 24th 2021 🔵2021年2月24日星期三 1️⃣Facebook v. Australia: it’s either my way or highway! 臉書 vs. 澳洲：你爸爸我跟你拼了！ Facebook will resume showing news articles in Australia, after cutting a deal with the government there. Less than a week ago the social-media titan shocked Australians by blocking links to journalism from their feeds and posts. It was angry at a law that...

🔴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....