For financial journalists of my generation, we used to feel the boom of Hong Kong as an international financial centre: big mergers, full-house restaurants in Central and shark fins lunch. Those were ...More
EJ Insight2024-10-31
The Van Cleef & Arpels Collection (1906-1953) is available in three language versions: French, English, and Chinese. In perfect harmony with its retrospective exhibitions, Van Cleef & Arpels h ...More
EJ Insight2024-08-28
You may think that Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate of the United States and governor of Minnesota comes out of nowhere, but to those in the geographic information community, he ha ...More
EJ Insight2024-08-19
“They hugged”, thus New York Times started its report of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his state visit to Moscow earlier last week, the fi ...More
EJ Insight2024-07-16
Picture this. You’re on a long-haul flight, with inches of room to spare before you. Before you is a reclining seat and a stubborn tenant who is clearly refusing to hear you, despite your best effort. ...More
EJ Insight2024-06-23
The subject of censorship is one that is both thorny and intricate. It is thorny, in the sense that few ever explicitly discuss it in places where it is most prevalent; it is intricate, in that censor ...More
EJ Insight2024-04-24
In March 1977, representatives from 116 countries gathered in Mar del Plata, Argentina, for the inaugural United Nations Water Conference. At the time, the event received very little attention. Global ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-03
In our collective imagination, the Himalayas – the roof of the world – are an archetype: glistening white, distant, even otherworldly. Climbing them is proof of humanity’s daring, courage, and drive – ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-16
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last month seemed to bode ill for the global clean-energy race. Just as recently enacted US investment packages and the rest of President Joe Biden’s climate dreams ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-18
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in northern California and Signature Bank in New York are the largest bank busts since 2008. Regional and mid-sized bank stocks have tanked, and depositors and busi ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-17
When it burst into the mainstream several years ago, the sustainable investment movement met relatively little resistance as it sought to persuade managers and shareholders to shift their focus from s ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-27
Until fairly recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping touted his zero-COVID policy as proof that authoritarian one-party states like China are better equipped to deal with pandemics (or any other crisis ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-18
When I took my children to receive their polio vaccines a few years ago, I thought about how lucky we are to live in a place where we can access lifesaving interventions with such ease. We didn’t need ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-17
