The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that the planet will warm by 1.5º Celsius by 2040 unless urgent measures are taken to eliminate greenhouse-gas emissions. Aft ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-12
Earlier this year, the World Bank commissioned me and five fellow academics to develop recommendations on how to improve the methodology behind its annual Doing Business report, which ranked countries ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-12
As investors reassess their risk expectations towards the Chinese property sector and the Asian High Yield bond market, we believe that opportunities exist for the discerning investor. While we remain ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-12
... and predicated upon the notion of recognition. Recognit ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年10月12日
In May this year, it was reported that another unicorn (a startup company with a valuation of at least US$1 billion and having been established for less than 10 years) has joined the Cyberport communi ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-11
Contemporary society constructs itself as revolving around and predicated upon the notion of recognition. Recognition by one’s family and relatives – as quantified and concretised through relations an ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-11
The severity of Hong Kong’s quarantine restrictions and the lack of a timetable to phase them out is threatening the city’s role as a centre of Asia-Pacific operations of foreign companies, the Europe ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-11
The words from Hymn No. 275 spin round one’s head: “The prisoner leaps to lose his chains.” You shall find out what they mean when you are in quarantine. What sort of civilised society compels its cit ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-11
... has generated political momentum across advanced and developing economies to change the balance of power between the state and the market, and thereby foster a new consensus for achieving more equita ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-08
... d, albeit at a slower clip of 24.5 percent over the same period last year. The on-line learning service provider has raised more than US$300 million so far according to TechCrunch data. The latest rou ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-08
To tackle its worsening global image, the HK government hired PR firm Consulum last year to develop a communication strategy to address the “current perceptions of Hong Kong's key global stakeholders” ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-08
General Motors presented its upcoming EV portfolio at its investor event Wednesday, with the full-size electric pickup Chevrolet Silverado as the centerpiece, according to TechCrunch reports. The elec ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-07
In 2011, when still vice chair of the US Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen reassured her colleagues that drama around the federal government’s debt ceiling “usually turns out to be just theater.” Theater ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-07
Chief Executive Carrie Lam wants to develop a more comprehensive innovation and technology ecosystem to enable reindustrialisation to take root in Hong Kong, which is part of the key messages from her ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-07
In October 2017, Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered an hourslong address at a Communist party congress in which he made a key prediction: that China would move “closer to center stage” in the world. ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-07
... g address at a Communist party congress in which he mad ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightFrank Ching2021年10月07日
Life is never perfect. But at least many of us had a good sleep on Monday. Thanks to the global outage, we did not stay up late for Facebook and Instagram for a change. Of course many would still catc ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-06
Although created a few years before the world went into lockdown, something about the simple app-based game Among Us truly tapped into the pandemic zeitgeist like nothing else. On the one hand, it was ...More
EJ Insight2021-10-06
