Could there be a case for cancelling the Olympics, especially in light of the recent surge in athletes testing positive for COVID-19? At first glance, the argument seems unconvincing. After all, vacci ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-22
Ossan’s Love was an absolute hit in Japan. And ViuTV’s exceptional remake of it – in the context of Hong Kong – has served as an invaluable breath of fresh air given the largely stifling times in whic ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-16
Donald Rumsfeld passed away at the age of 88 on June 29. Rumsfeld was a remarkable figure, for a plethora of reasons – from his unscrupulous and contentious approach to media and press relations, to h ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-05
Much ink has been spilled previously on the caged home crisis – indeed, from myself, included. Yet there remains a more pressing question to be asked – now what? We have established, clearly, that we ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-24
A recent phenomenon has taken China by storm – more specifically, it has gained substantial traction amongst the country’s youth and millennials. “Lying down” denotes a mixture of anti-materialist min ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-23
Caged homes. A term employed to denote “spaces” that could range anywhere from 100 sq. ft. apartments with sprawling sewage pipes and crisscrossed overhead wires and dripping roofs and broken pipes… t ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-18
There is a dangerous temptation amongst some to frame conservative family values as ostensibly incompatible with the pursuit of any and all agenda or events deemed to be “progressive” in kind. An exam ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-17
I went back and gave Dale Carnegie’s classic a (re-)read the other day – for three reasons: Firstly, I was intrigued by the prospects of applying his prescriptions to international relations and diplo ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-08
Hong Kong – a city with one of the highest life expectancies in the world. A city packed to brim with wealth, affluence, and decadence. Also – a city with a rapidly ageing population – and whose demog ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-07
Let’s face it. Hong Kong, we’ve got a vaccine problem. Vaccine uptake remains sluggish, especially amongst the youth. The citizenry at large remains skeptical of the merits and need for vaccination – ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-03
As the zeitgeist goes, it is imperative that Hong Kong redresses its long-standing inequalities. Beijing is right – when it comes to housing, land, and the underlying socioeconomic tensions of our cit ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-25
A few weeks ago, the Democratic Party established – a historic first – a committee that is designated as facilitating the party’s understanding of Hong Kong’s relationship with the Mainland. This is a ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-24
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a truly dire toll on India. The sights are abhorrent to behold. 4,000+ daily deaths, 400,000+ daily cases, with the actual numbers likely to be in the ballpark of 10, e ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-11
Vaccinations are not going well in Hong Kong. Uptake is extraordinarily slow – especially as compared with other developed countries or regions. Israel, for one, has a population 1.5 million more than ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-04
Nomadland reveals an America driven apart by sociocultural divides, economic downturn, and the crumbling of communities and neighbourhoods under the weight of gentrification and political polarisation ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-03
Hong Kong has a housing crisis. In 2016, an estimated 2.8% of the city’s population was living in subdivided apartments – housing in squalid, dilapidated conditions that featured egregiously expensive ...More
EJ Insight2021-04-27
To term the Hong Kong ruling class as 'politicians', wo ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian YS Wong2021年04月27日
To term the Hong Kong ruling class as ‘politicians’, would be a misnomer on a scale comparable to terming the Moon a planet. The Moon is a moon; the spade is a spade; Hong Kong ‘politicians’ are no po ...More
EJ Insight2021-04-26
One would be living under a very, very large rock – to have missed Prince Philip’s passing last Friday. Husband to the Queen for seven decades, Philip’s death marked the end of one of the longest tenu ...More
EJ Insight2021-04-19
The situation in Myanmar is beyond dire. Hundreds of casualties, thousands of arrests, internet and wifi connections intermittent at best, and there is a palpable and real fear that the country is sli ...More
EJ Insight2021-04-14
