... tion fell to a four-month low of 1.2 per cent in May, compared to its regional peer South Korea where the consumer price index surged to a 24-year high of six per cent in June due to soaring energy an ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-13
The first half of 2022 has been traumatic. Equity markets have suffered one of their worst six-month periods ever. Government bonds are undergoing a rare, significant decline. And the world of cryptoc ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-13
Around the world, high inflation, slow economic growth, and food shortages are hurting the poor the most. Coming on top of the unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, today’s multiple crises have al ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-13
Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD), was set up in 1996 to secure the protection of privacy for the individual with respect to personal data and enforces the Personal Data (Priva ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-12
... eing sent to the quarantine centre after contracting the virus. All of these have greatly increased their psychological burden. When people are bombarded by negative news with the death toll hitting n ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-12
People tend to look to the past to make sense of the present and the future. Looking at historical patterns can indeed provide a useful roadmap for the future but can sometimes lead to mistaken assump ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-11
... ,” we are told. Of the five currencies underlying the International Monetary Fund’s reserve asset, special drawing rights, only the Japanese yen has done worse than the pound. Traders appear to view s ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-11
When we were little children and easily entertained, there used to be something called a Punch and Judy show at every seaside resort. A multicoloured tentlike booth contained a mini-theatre and the gl ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-11
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Ukraine inherited part of its nuclear arsenal. But in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine agreed to return these weapons to Russia in exchange for “assurance ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-11
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