Last month, Hurricane Daniel showed The Middle East and North Africa is rapidly becoming one of the regions worst affected by extreme weather due to climate change. It claimed thousands of lives in Li ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-05
... igh marks to the summit. China’s foreign minister Wang Yi said: “The San Francisco meeting is significant for enhancing trust, removing suspicion, managing differences and expanding cooperation betwee ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-05
These days, it’s trendy to talk down Hong Kong. After all, who doesn’t enjoy trashing a city that has seen, in the span of four to five years, unprecedented political turmoil, a pandemic that has left ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-05
Of the six candidates aiming to win Taiwan’s highest offices in the presidential election next January 13, one has a cv that stands out – ‘cat warrior’, Hsiao Bi-khim, vice-presidential candidate of t ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-04
Part of the following was based on a few scrambled notes and thoughts I had put together in a personal journal a few years back. The rest, of course, is history – or rather, the byproduct culminating ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-04
As the start of this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) approaches, those leading it continue to inspire concern and even indignation. After all, the host will be the United Arab ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-04
Hamas’s barbaric massacre of at least 1,400 Israelis on October 7, and Israel’s subsequent military campaign in Gaza to eradicate the group, has introduced four geopolitical scenarios bearing on the g ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-04
... solution to the crisis. Although the loosely defined concept remains a work in progress, the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai provides an opportunity for business le ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-01
It’s the same story around the world. Faced with an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation online, declining trust in media and government, and the proliferation of “news deserts,” governments ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-01
... According to the Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2023, 85% of organisations were hit by at least one ransomware attack last year, and just under half (48%) suffered even two or three attacks. So, ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-01
The headlines say it all. The suicide rate amongst 15-24 year olds in Hong Kong rose to a record high of 12.2 deaths per 100,000 people, as compared with just over a half of this number 8 years ago. 2 ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-30
One of the biggest mistakes I ever made as a journalist was to underestimate Geert Wilders, now the leader (and only formal member) of the most popular political party in the Netherlands, and potentia ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-30
The FOMC has started to reduce the size of its balance sheet in June 2022 to complement the rate hiking cycle that had started two months earlier. Its primary objective was to remove excess liquidity ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-30
As we approach 2024, AI's evolution in the cloud market has ushered in a new era of innovation, reshaping infrastructure, services, and market dynamics, fostering sector-specific adaptation and techno ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-30
