Jonathan Fong

The 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections are scheduled for November 24, 2019. The District Councils are low-level bodies that are typically charged with neighborhood affairs, but the importance of this election has risen dramatically due to widespread political unrest in the city ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party has retained power in the Canadian federal elections; however, he failed to maintain the majority that he won in 2015. Heading into the vote on October 21, 2019, the polls projected a tight race between Trudeau and his Conservative Party challenger and opposition leader, Andrew Scheer ...

The macroeconomic outlook for Pakistan in 2016 was much more positive than it is today. Then-Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, visited Pakistan and evaluated that the country was “out of crisis” ...

The day before Indonesia’s 74th anniversary of its independence, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo announced his plans to move the country’s capital. With approval of the parliament, the capital will move over 2000 kilometers away ...

Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. is the world’s largest manufacturer of video surveillance cameras. The Shenzhen-listed company offers core technologies of audio and video surveillance, data encoding and processing, and digital storage. The company...

Although China is a major crude oil producer, steadily increasing demand has made the country the world’s largest oil importer as of 2017. Nearly half of those imports come from countries on the coastline of the Persian Gulf...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party currently holds a majority in the House of Commons and pushed to pass significant legislation before potential shakeups by the federal elections in October 2019. Among the bills passed were...

Vietnam’s natural endowment of water has been closely linked with their economy and to the Vietnamese way of life. Vietnam was the world’s fifth largest producer of...

Raytheon Corporation has agreed to merge with United Technologies Corporation to form a new company worth over $100 billion in the aerospace and defense industry’s biggest corporate merger. The new company, named Raytheon Technologies Corporation, will...

The US government published a report delineating a strategy to reduce reliance on foreign sources of critical minerals such as rare earth elements. Rare earth elements (REEs) are...