The Hong Kong Ballet has just premiered a brand new production of “The Nutcracker” last weekend. It is the second full-length ballet specially created by the company by its artistic director Septime W ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-14
... concealed by dilapidated facades in Sham Shui Po, Tsuen Wan, and Kwun Tong. Tired bodies dragging their feet, aspiring youths stashing away their dreams, and – above all – the sullen despair of those ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-14
... ms caused by tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy foods; they must also establish measures to limit policymakers’ interactions with these industries. As WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus rece ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-14
... published by Allen Lane in 2014. The first, is that politicians in the Establishment often maintain their grip over power through ideological and academic instruments of legitimation – whether it be t ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-13
A recent report by Goldman Sachs reached a surprising conclusion: Over the past eight years, financial markets have been increasing the cost of capital for big, long-term, high-carbon investments in s ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-13
In recent years, the term “involution” has become a buzzword, used to capture the discontent experienced by young people, referring to excessive and vicious competition as well as persistent economic ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-13
... increased by 16 times, the salary by 23 times. On the other hand, private buildings over 50 years old account for a quarter of all private buildings in Hong Kong, it is expected to increase to 50% by ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-13
... requented by many – ranging from those from the humbles ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年12月11日
... er person by such other person.” Since one man pointed a gun at Rittenhouse and the others were chasing him, the jury believed that his fear of being “interfered” with was reasonable. This was not an ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-10
... scovered (by some fluke) that we never needed to worry about this? I am generally open minded, but I do have some strong suspicions in this particular debate. On fiscal policy and the idea that govern ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-10
... exploded; by the 1940s, the U.S. surpassed traditional soy producing nations such as China and Japan to become the largest producer of soybeans in the world. During the same period, China was embroile ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-10
... ural land by invoking the Lands Resumption Ordinance. T ...全文
... al leader by 2030. Some experts believe that China is well placed to achieve that goal, owing to its enormous data resources, a lack of privacy restraints on how that data is used, and the fact that a ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-09
... lsewhere, by no means indicative of origins); a variant ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年12月09日
Borrowing from Hamlet’s famous soliloquy "To be or not to be" may well fit into the situation faced by our recently-installed Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong. While Prince Hamlet mopes abo ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-08
... requented by many – ranging from those from the humblest origins, to those who flourished and thrived in the upper echelons of the Chinese civil society, then. A mixture of fate and familial reasons h ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-08
... e defined by the Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman: all that matters is shareholder returns. But the continuing viability of this maxim has been called into question by unprecedented wildfires, ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-08
Approximately 13% of low-wage jobs in Germany would not be viable if workers understood just how good their outside options truly are. That is the conclusion of a recent paper by Benjamin Schoefer, my ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-07
... ersonally by Xi to Biden in their September phone call as well. The atmosphere started to improve after that call. On Sept. 24, Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, detained in Canada on fra ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-07
... lsewhere, by no means indicative of origins); a variant that has, in accordance with initial investigation, three times of Delta’s infectiousness (Delta itself is a more contagious variant than the or ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-07
