Feng Shui, the traditional Chinese practice of harnessing the flow of energy, indicates the Year of the Rabbit can pull people in different directions. For 2023 we well may see investors getting pulle ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-19
How much are you willing to pay for your first trip in three years? Well, depending on who and when, it could be quite costly for Hong Kong travellers. Travellers who want to go outside Hong Kong duri ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-18
... requently to speed up the construction of public housing. But using prefabrication of modules will increase the cost, what’s the choice? In addition, Hong Kong currently only adopts modular integrated ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-18
Until fairly recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping touted his zero-COVID policy as proof that authoritarian one-party states like China are better equipped to deal with pandemics (or any other crisis ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-18
A nation that trumpets its own success, that heralds its ostensibly inevitable trajectory towards greatness, and that frames its relations with competitors and rivals as one defined by a moral hierarc ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-17
The extreme weather around the world recently has forced us to think seriously about the big issue of global warming. Buildings currently account for nearly 40% of energy-related carbon emissions glob ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-17
... and investors. Given all the disappointments in 2022, the outlook for the new year is quite downbeat. Major corporations are announcing layoffs, and the International Monetary Fund is forecasting tha ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-17
I was invited to address the Harvard-Sciences Po Conference last Saturday; the convenors had wanted a keynote on the intersection of media, technology, and geopolitics – and thus I obliged, with a for ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-16
Technology underpins practically every aspect of our life. It’s the backbone behind how we work, how we connect to friends and family, and how we relax in our free time. But what role does technology ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-16
These cold winter nights, electric lights flood a site of 213,000 square metres in Kumamoto prefecture, western Japan. Workers and building machines are labouring 24 hours a day to complete the first ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-16
... ttractive to enterprises. Real data may not reflect the truth due to different apportioning arising from races and nationality specifics, while synthetic data can reduce bias. Besides, synthetic versi ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-13
The 2022 Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also known as COP27, was held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. It was an implementation-focused COP, meaning ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-13
