What is the core value of a smart city? This topic recently aroused much interest. I have just finished teaching the last lesson of a Master's degree program in smart city at the University of Hong Ko ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-05
... ew of the city's preparedness, emergency response and recovery efforts after Mangkhut hit Hong Kong directly on Sept. 16 last year, uprooting thousands of trees, causing serious damage to property and ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-04
... me of our city's core values, namely rule of law and judicial independence, as they do not trust a justice system that is run by an autocratic regime. One petition, published on the front pages of sev ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-04
... leave the city in mid-July, some are simply having doubts about whether passing the National Anthem Bill is really that urgent so much so they must continue working during the summer holiday. This art ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-04
... aving our city but cannot afford to do so. So what makes these people want to live somewhere else so much? The CUHK study has identified four major “push factors”: 1) too much political dispute in soc ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-03
Hong Kong has been getting an inordinate amount of global attention these days, as is perhaps appropriate for a place that likes to call itself “Asia’s world city”. But it isn’t the kind of publicity ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-03
... hope the city will return to the half-day system. The topic has been discussed for many years but without any progress. The Education Bureau switched to a full-day program on the belief that it would ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-03
Han Kuo-yu, mayor of Kaohsiung city in southern Taiwan, told his supporters in a massive rally that he is ready to take on "any important post" in 2020, suggesting he may well run for the island's pre ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-03
... that the city spent 10 years to accumulate these units, it would mean that every week there were at least 70 sales. Granted, less wealthy Hongkongers have also bought overseas properties. Some people ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-03
... S capital city sued Facebook in December, accusing it of misleading users because it had known about the breach for two years before disclosing it and had allowed third-party app makers to access user ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-03
... s and the city's aviation safety are not affected, Chan added. – Contact us at [email protected] TL/JC/CG ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-31
... ieves the city is well positioned to make it big in the biotech field. Another beauty of biotech business is that disease is global, and so the market is also global, Huen pointed out. “There is littl ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-31
... Canadian city of Vancouver. A Philippine court in 2016 declared the import of 2,400 tons of Canadian waste illegal. It had been mislabeled as plastics for recycling. Canada said the waste, exported t ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-31
... as “Meep City” and “Jailbreak”, were made by its young independent developers. In 2017, Roblox said it paid out US$30 million to its creator community, and expected that number to more than double in ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-31
... from the city to jurisdictions such as Mainland China. What has already been torn to pieces is, to give its official designation, the Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matter ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-31
... Forbidden City that included a Peking Opera performance and dinner with the Chinese leader and his wife, the singer Peng Liyuan. Trump appeared overwhelmed by the reception. According to diplomatic ob ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-31
... the Saudi city of Mecca to discuss drone strikes on oil installations in Saudi Arabia and attacks on four vessels, including two Saudi tankers, off the UAE coast earlier this month. Tehran has denied ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-31
... op in the city, adding that any entity providing services to the vessel will be violating US sanctions, Reuters reported. The warning came as Washington stepped up moves to choke off Iran’s oil export ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-30
... cause the city has no formal extradition agreement with Macau. Asked by media about Lau’s latest action, Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah declined to comment, saying it is obviously not apt ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-30
Following a call by the Civil Human Rights Front for a June 9 mass protest against the government's extradition bill, the city’s lawyers are preparing to stage a separate march of their own next week ...More
EJ Insight2019-05-30
