On Feb. 9, Bloomberg ran article titled “Hong Kong is Showing Symptoms of a Failed State” in its opinion section, in which the author, Clara Ferreira Marques, referred to Hong Kong as a "fragile state ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-21
... ncy (CBDC). The year-long pilot project will use distributed ledger technology (DLT) such as blockchain which supports cryptocurrencies. CBDCs are traditional money, but in digital form, issued and su ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-21
A policeman has tested positive for Covid-19 in Hong Kong, becoming the first law enforcement official in the city to be infected with the novel coronavirus, authorities said. The victim, the 69th con ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-21
China's Hubei province reported an uptick in new cases of coronavirus on Friday, reversing three days of declines, although the numbers still confirmed a downward trend, Reuters reports. Hubei, the pr ...More
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... rs reports. The deserted shopping malls and cinemas of Daegu, a city of 2.5 million people, became one of the most striking images outside China of an outbreak that international authorities are tryin ...More
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... t of there. However, the government has yet to come up with a concrete evacuation plan for them, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. “The HKSAR government is very concerned about the situation of ...More
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... s on board. Security Secretary John Lee Ka-chiu told reporters that the flight, which landed in Hong Kong at around 8.30 am, carried 106 Hong Kong people who had been under quarantine aboard the Diamo ...More
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... ed onboard. More than 620 of the passengers on the Diamond Princess liner have been infected on the ship, which has been quarantined since Feb. 3, initially with about 3,700 people on board. NHK, citi ...More
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... ion (KCDC). Of the new cases, 23 cases were traced to church services that a 61-year-old patient who has tested positive had attended in the central city of Daegu. On Wednesday, Shincheonji Church pos ...More
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... ia Baolong. It also announced a reorganization of the HKMAO and the Liaison Office. Xia, 67, will be the senior official in charge of Hong Kong affairs. Zhang Xiaoming, the erstwhile director of the H ...More
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... ia Baolong. It also announced a reorganization of the H ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2020年02月20日
The new coronavirus outbreak is causing significant disruption to business, travel and day-to-day life for millions of people in China and around the world. It has also created uncertainty and fear. A ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-19
... oronavirus. Secretary for Security John Lee Ka-chiu on Wednesday morning said 53 Hong Kong residents aboard the vessel were confirmed to have Covid-19, more than double the number reported on Monday. ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-19
Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing is donating 250,000 surgical masks for the underprivileged amid the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak in the city. The Li Ka Shing Foundation, a charitable organi ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-18
Hong Kong authorities said on Monday that three more people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) infection, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the city to 60. Among the new ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-18
In my 2010 book, Crisis Economics, I defined financial crises not as the “black swan” events that Nassim Nicholas Taleb described in his eponymous bestseller, but as “white swans.” According to Taleb, ...More
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