The COVID-19 pandemic has ruthlessly exposed the global food system’s deficiencies, and a massive escalating hunger crisis now looms. A quarter of humanity lacks secure access to food, with one in ten ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-20
As the world cast their eyes on the Tokyo Olympics, international investors turn to Japanese equities in the hunt for attractive opportunities brought by the country’s ongoing structural changes. As a ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-19
Hong Kong’s job market continues to recover, with the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropping by 0.5 percentage points to 5 percent for the period between May and July, according to the Census ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-19
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the end the Bretton Woods system, when US President Richard Nixon suspended the US dollar’s convertibility into gold and allowed it to float. We are also appro ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-19
The magnitude of the United States' failure in Afghanis ...全文
今日信報時事評論Jeffrey D. Sachs2021年08月19日
Leading local fast food operators have something to worry. Enter Daai Fun Gwo, a unit of the blue-chip hotpot operator Haidilao. The brand quietly set up its first store in Wan Chai about a month ago. ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-18
The magnitude of the United States’ failure in Afghanistan is breathtaking. It is not a failure of Democrats or Republicans, but an abiding failure of American political culture, reflected in US polic ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-18
The BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – collaborate in a number of areas and have emerged as a forceful voice for global governance reform. But with their lukewarm coope ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-17
... ecarious nature of a system of criminal justice if the lawyers are corrupt and/or incompetent. Ma Ka Kin was an unsophisticated, simple minded employee in a noodle shop, easily duped into unwittingly ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-17
... ppy, and match or "reflect" the avowed preferences of t ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightA Hongkonger2021年08月17日
Last year, Microsoft announced that it will be carbon-negative by 2030. “If we don’t curb emissions, and temperatures continue to climb,” the firm said on its official blog, “science tells us that the ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-16
The outstanding performance of Hong Kong athletes in the Tokyo Olympic Games has made Hong Kong excited. Not long ago, the public was worried about holding large-scale gatherings under the COVID-19 ep ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-16
When Lithuania allowed Taiwan to open an office in its capital using its own name this month, Beijing could have cut diplomatic relations with it for crossing this taboo red line. But it did not – ins ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-16
... al IPCC statement declared that "climate change is wide ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年08月14日
... ppy, and match or “reflect” the avowed preferences of those who have and will continue to back them. On the other hand, they must uphold the actual, substantial interests of all individuals in the soc ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-13
With less than three months until the United Nations climate change summit (COP26) in Glasgow in November, formal and informal discussions and pre-negotiations are now in full swing. A new US administ ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-13
The UN Secretary-General termed it a “code red for humanity”. The official IPCC statement declared that “climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying.” Above all, evidence ranging from the fl ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-12
August 13-15 marks the 50th anniversary of “the weekend that changed the world,” when US President Richard Nixon suspended the dollar’s convertibility into gold at a fixed price and rung down the curt ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-12
... cine’s greatest innovations, allowing billions of people to lead healthy lives. But stopping outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease – and not only COVID-19 – depends on achieving critical mass with ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-12
