... t in part by the laws of supply and demand, one expects shortages to be reflected in prices. And when individual price increases are lumped together, we call that inflation, which is now at levels not ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-08
... ” written by its top Asia hand, Louis Kraar. Hong Kong, Kraar wrote, would remain “the gateway to fast-growing South China” and be “a place where you can make plenty of money.” What’s dying, he said, ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-08
... tuted out by both the performative and aspirant elements of love. The former denotes, of course, the rituals and customs attached with love, or the feigning of appearances of love; the latter, on the ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-08
... ces posed by unbridled contagion in the mainland would be devastating to the economy and population at large. There are proposals that are theoretically sound and practically feasible – this is not on ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-07
At the LegCo earlier, the Chief Executive proposed reviewing the organization of the government, reforming the current structure of 13 policy bureaux managed by 3 secretaries into 15 bureaux. The Tran ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-07
... 4 billion by the end of 2022. In Asia-Pacific, the market is anticipated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 34.28% during the forecast period 2018-2023. As part of the continuous evolu ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-07
By combining virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and extended reality (XR) to integrate the virtual environment and real world, everyone can have an avatar, a virtual twin of oneself. These ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-07
... community by dramatically reducing commuting for employees and the environmental footprint of businesses. While the benefits and popularity of hybrid working were vastly discussed, getting to the crux ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-07
In recent years, the Vrije Universiteit (Free University) Amsterdam has conducted research on human rights in China. As part of this work, carried out by the university’s Cross Cultural Human Rights C ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-04
... P to grow by 4.6% this year, faster than its 2015-19 trend. S&P Global Ratings is even more bullish, projecting that emerging economies will expand by 4.8%. Strikingly, these growth figures are vi ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-04
... eing kept by independent parties, a hacker would need to alter at least 51% of the validating record books in order to alter it (also called a "51% attack"). So it's much harder for a hacker to do tha ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-04
... not only by fraud and falsehood, the ordinary and vulg ...全文
It is said that by 2030, many industries need spatial computing talents who are good at online game design and blending the virtual environment and real world seamlessly, because by then the “Metavers ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-31
... estimates by the San Francisco Fed, items that are sensitive to disruptions caused by the pandemic contributed to about three quarters of core PCE inflation last year. Still, inflationary pressures ha ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-31
... be judged by a jury of one’s fellow citizens have no place in this authoritarian pedagogy, indeed it reverses the fundamental precept that no-one is guilty until that has been proved. Nevertheless, de ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-31
... Research by the Veterinary Surgeons Board said that pet ownership in Hong Kong increased 72 per cent between 2006 and 2016; the number now exceeds 540,000. The city has more than 850 veterinary surge ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-31
... be maimed by predators – that's why they run away from ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年01月29日
