A New York Times op-ed piece proposes that the three Hong Kong student leaders jailed on Thursday in connection with their fight for democracy be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In an article tit ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-18
In much of the US and Europe, and in some developed Asian economies like Japan or Singapore, immigration is a hot subject and, for many people, unpopular. In Hong Kong, it is not currently a big deal, ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-16
... pe public opinion. Joe and Jill Citizen do not have the time, even if they had the inclination, to investigate the facts behind the issues of the day. They glean their information from what the media ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-18
University students should learn to think out of the box and also draw quick lessons from failure as the world is changing fast and opening up new opportunities for creative talents, a Canadian univer ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-14
... said Hans Op ’t Veld, head of listed real estate at PGGM. If Trump wins, the United States would launch more protectionist moves and this would hurt Sino-US trade relations, which in turn would have a ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-19
Investors are anxiously awaiting the outcome of tomorrow's British referendum on whether the country should stay in the European Union or leave. The result could have a profound impact worldwide, pote ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-22
Causeway Bay Bookstore founder Lam Wing-kee has been dropping bombshells after mainland security authorities who detained him for eight months allowed him a brief return to Hong Kong. It's now clear t ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-21
... he online op-ed platform Project Syndicate last month. What Patten was referring to was the tradition that Hong Kong's top leader should be the ex-officio chancellor, the constitutional head, of all o ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-17
... use, his popularity says volumes about the state of American politics, and sends a fireball of a warning shot across the world. How do Hong Kong, China, and the Chinese Communist Party view Trump’s ri ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-12
... thpiece People's Daily, one could win lucky money by inputting the words “as long as we persevere, our dreams will come true” (只要堅持夢想總會實現) for the Thursday edition of the game. Everybody wins a red p ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-05
Recently I went to Amsterdam in the Netherlands to see some of the community cultural spaces there. The operational model of those facilities has offered me a lot of insight into how the power and asp ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
Mark Zuckerberg is in a spot of trouble in India after making a personal appeal in one of the country's leading newspapers to allow free internet access. The op-ed has stirred controversy and drew que ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-29
Hong Kong people have a feeling that the music industry is losing its top talent to China. They understand that money is driving the brain drain. There's more of it to be made across the border. But i ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-02
... ake photo-op in Manila would look like China's top leadership will have no objections if he seeks a second term. Besides, Leung himself said the Chinese leader "fully affirmed" his decision to shift t ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
... Ming Pao op-ed Wednesday, Chan said he was not surprised at his being rejected but was saddened by the council's "indiscreet and acrimonious comments". Meanwhile, pro-Beijing party Justice Alliance s ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-08
Mark Zuckerberg isn't quite plugged into Facebook users over his ambitious plan to "connect the world". Zuckerberg's new mobile app, called Internet. org, which offers free internet access in developi ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-25
Netizens are tearing into an outspoken pro-Beijing columnist for calling Hong Kong people ignorant, dismissing her as a "superficial patriot". They're accusing media veteran Chris Wat of hypocrisy aft ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-14
Most of us may have already forgotten Mak Chai-kwong who served a grand total of 12 days as Hong Kong development chief before he was struck down by a corruption scandal. Mak was arrested and formally ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-07
... ary in an op-ed essay in The New York Times that an earlier melanoma in his eye had spread to his liver and that he was in the late stages of terminal cancer. Sacks wrote extensively about a neurologi ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-31
