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🔴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...

🔴Tuesday January 5th 2021 🔵2021年1月5日星期二 1️⃣Julian Assange: in between the UK and the US… 朱利安亞桑傑：在英美之間… A British judge ruled that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, should not be extradited to America to face criminal charges because it would put him at risk of suicide. America, which accuses Mr Assange of 18 crimes connected to the release of confidential military recor...

🔴Monday January 4th 2021 🔵2021年1月4日星期一 1️⃣Headache for most governments: ageing population feat. tax revenue 各國政府避之唯恐不及：人口老化 feat. 財政稅收 South Korea’s population fell in 2020 for the first time in its history. Compared with 2019, the number of deaths increased by 3%, while births fell by 10%. A population that is ageing as well as shrinking will prove expensive, as policy...

🔴Wednesday December 30th 2020 🔵2020年12月30日星期三 1️⃣Japanese economy: the lost decades… 日本經濟：失落的幾十年… The Nikkei 225 index of Japanese shares surpassed 27,000 for the first time since 1991, as shares rallied after America’s stimulus bill was passed into law and a post-Brexit trade deal was agreed between Britain and the EU. Exactly 31 years ago, when Japan’s economy was at its bubbl...

🔴Tuesday December 29th 2020 🔵2020年12月29日星期二 1️⃣Russia v. Bulgaria: from allies to enemies 俄羅斯 vs. 保加利亞：從盟友變敵人 Russia expelled a Bulgarian diplomat in a tit-for-tat exchange, after Bulgaria sent Russia’s military attaché home, saying he had been spying on the country since 2017. The two countries were once the closest of Warsaw Pact allies; Bulgaria is now a member of the EU a...

🔴Monday December 28th 2020 🔵2020年12月28日星期一 1️⃣Will China really surpass America in economy? 中國的經濟真的會超越美國的嗎？ China will surpass America as the world’s largest economy in 2028, five years sooner than previously estimated, according to a new report by the Centre for Economics and Business Research, a think-tank. The accelerated timeline is because of the two countries’ contrast...

🔴Thursday December 24th 2020 🔵2020年12月24日星期四 1️⃣British officials indicated that a post-Brexit trade agreement with the European Union was inching closer. Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, and Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, spoke by telephone while negotiations continued in Brussels… 英國官員表示，(就英國) 脫歐後與歐盟之間的貿易協議之談判雖然緩慢，但...

🔴Wednesday December 23rd 2020 🔵2020年12月23日星期三 1️⃣France agreed to admit some travellers from Britain from Wednesday, having closed its border on Sunday for fear of a fast-spreading coronavirus variant. French and other EU nationals, residents of France and those transporting goods will be allowed in, provided they have tested negative for covid-19 in the previous 72 hours… 法國同意從週三開...

🔴Tuesday December 22nd 2020 🔵2020年12月22日星期二 1️⃣A statue of Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general, was removed from the Capitol in Washington, DC, where it represented Virginia along with that of George Washington. Ralph Northam, the state’s governor, called the Confederacy “a symbol of Virginia’s racist and divisive history”… 代表美國維吉尼亞州 (Virginia)，與美國開國元勳華盛頓 (George Washi...

🔴Monday December 21st 2020 🔵2020年12月21日星期一 1️⃣Britain on Sunday reported an increase in covid-19 cases of 35,928, the highest daily rise since the start of the pandemic. London and south-east England went into lockdown as the government tried to curb the spread of a mutant strain of the virus, which is up to 70% more transmissible than the original… 英國 (上) 週日回報新冠病毒的確診病例增加...

🔴Friday December 18th 2020 🔵2020年12月18日星期五 1️⃣Oil prices hit a nine-month high in response to a reduction in the size of America’s crude stockpile and the dollar’s loss of value in the face of an expected coronavirus stimulus package… 美國原油庫存的減少，再加上美元因新冠疫情之經濟振興/刺激方案而走貶，使得油價創下近 9個月以來的新高… 2️⃣Spain’s parliament voted to legalise euthanasia and doc...

🔴Thursday December 17th 2020 🔵2020年12月17日星期四 1️⃣America’s congressional leaders said that they were close to agreement on new stimulus legislation to reduce the economic pain caused by the covid-19 pandemic. Thought to be worth around $900bn, the deal would include fresh cheques for individuals and families as well as extended unemployment benefits… 美國國會 (兩院) 中的領導要角們表示他們將...

🔴Wednesday December 16th 2020 🔵2020年12月16日星期三 1️⃣Herbert Diess succeeded in an internal power struggle at Volkswagen. The chief executive of the world’s second-largest carmaker had proposed a faster push into electric vehicles and had wanted to rebrand the firm as a technology company, setting up a conflict with more cautious labour leaders on the supervisory board over senior appointments...

🔴Tuesday December 15th 2020 🔵2020年12月15日星期二 1️⃣South Korea banned the launching of propaganda leaflets into North Korea, a practice long denounced by the North. The law, which also restricts loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts, will take effect in three months. Lawbreakers could face up to three years in prison or 30m won ($27,500) in fines… 南韓 (立法) 禁止了向北韓發送宣傳傳單，因北韓長期以...

🔴Monday December 14th 2020 🔵2020年12月14日星期一 1️⃣Pfizer shipped the first doses of its covid-19 vaccine to American states from its factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan. On Friday America’s Food and Drug Administration approved the jab, which Pfizer developed with BioNTech, a fellow drugmaker, for emergency use… 輝瑞藥廠 (Pfizer) 從美國密西根州 (Michigan) 卡拉馬祖市 (Kalamazoo) 的工廠向美國各州運送...