Economists were shocked when US unemployment claims shot up from 281,000 to 3.28 million in just one week from March 14 to March 21. The cause was of course the COVID-19 virus. Specifically, the cause ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-07
The way forward to stabilize food supply I grew up in Yuen Long where jasmine rice and farming were famous half a century ago but have eventually faded out. However, the recent epidemic has driven me ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-06
... hina (PRC). The Basic Law enshrines the basic policies of the PRC regarding the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and provides a solid constitutional basis for the implementation of “One ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-04
... y business. Before that, the lunatic fringe of the protest movement was scaring people from venturing out of an evening, lest they encounter some of the vandals at work. But both these forces were ope ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-01
Almost all of Hong Kong’s foods are imported. More than half of rice is from Thailand, while Vietnam supplies 25%. As for pork, since the outbreak of African Swine Fever last year, Hong Kong has reduc ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-01
Three men received jail sentences ranging from 10 days to three months after they were found guilty of breaching the government's self-quarantine orders. Sing Kin Kung-kai, 31, was found to have given ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-31
Amid the Covid-19 crisis, daily infections across European countries and the United States continue to increase, with Switzerland matching Italy's record in cumulative infections per capita. The surgi ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-31
We live now in the post-virus world. For the United States, passage into this world came suddenly, less than a month ago. The world as we knew it before the arrival of COVID-19 has gone. It is never c ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-31
The government is preparing to roll out the second round of a relief fund to help businesses cope with the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung said. In his wee ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-30
After Bill Clinton’s successful presidential election campaign of 1992, one of his advisers was asked why his man had won. “It’s the economy, stupid” was the famous reply of James Carville. Donald Tru ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-30
Hong Kong continued to record a worrying spike in Covid-19 cases, with the tally of confirmed infections in the city rising to 641 over the weekend. According to the Health Department's Centre for Hea ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-30
Events like the Covid-19 pandemic, the US housing market crash of 2007-2009, and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are often called “black swans”. The term is meant to suggest that no one could ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-30
Spain announced a strengthening of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus as death toll mounted from the Covid-19 disease, Reuters reports. On Sunday, the death toll rose by 838 overnight to 6 ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-30
Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei Technologies on Wednesday unveiled its new flagship smartphones even as the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic. Richard Yu, chief executive of Huawei’s ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-27
Profits at China's industrial firms plunged in the first two months of the year to their lowest in at least a decade following widespread factory shutdowns in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. Indus ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-27
The US government indicted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and more than a dozen other top Venezuelan officials on charges of “narco-terrorism”, Reuters reports. The State Department offered a rew ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-27
