It is easy to forget that for a long time – long before Google and Facebook went head-to-head with the Australian government last month – there wasn’t a proven business model for the internet. That, a ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-08
... amp;T, as well as regularising the scheme which subsidises local university students studying science and technology to enrol in I&T related internships can surely help to upgrade Hong Kong young ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-08
... dget last Wednesday, with a particular emphasis upon ta ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年03月06日
... he zero lower bound. Our objections went unheeded. Fed Chair Alan Greenspan reduced the inflation target to 2%, and we have been paying for it ever since. I have long thought that many of our economic ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-05
... seized power. But is the US embassy the best place to protest? Can the US president do anything substantial apart from expressing disapproval of the coup? The protesters’ hope for a US intervention s ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-05
In the latest Budget, the government stated that it will continue to promote the fifth generation of mobile network (5G), allowing the installation of base stations in public facilities. However, in t ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-05
... 信任?英諺說得不錯:We eat what we cook. 廚師炒的那碟菜,他自己敢吃嗎?他敢的話,你才相信 ...全文
... asingly powerful challenger. I am not that pessimistic. In my view, economic and ecological interdependence reduces the probability of a real cold war, much less a hot one, because both countries have ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-04
... tion next week that would ensure that anyone elected to any office – from district councilors who deal with garbage disposal to the Chief Executive—would in China’s eyes be a “patriot” who supports th ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-04
... tion next week that would ensure that anyone elected to ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2021年03月04日
Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po presented his budget last Wednesday, with a particular emphasis upon tackling the economic fallout induced by the ongoing pandemic, as well as restoring consumer an ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-03
... n theory. We should take patriotism to be perfectly ben ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightA Hongkonger2021年03月03日
... orically, we may now see the world differently – the cost of pollution, the value of personal connection, the pleasure of being outdoors (with clean air) – and start being kinder to each other and to ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-02
The Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars this month, marks a new leap toward answering fundamental questions about our solar system, including where else we might find DNA. The rover will roam the ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-01
Patriotism – love of one’s country, love of one’s land, love of one’s origins and roots. Brilliant stuff – in theory. We should take patriotism to be perfectly benign and eminently harmless. Benign, i ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-01
... a gap between the equity market and macro momentum would make us a lot more cautious than we currently are. The reasons are obvious: Fundamentally, we expect the current weakness in the data to be tr ...More
EJ Insight2021-02-26