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
... of anti-materialist minimalism, and the pursuit of con ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年06月24日
The last thing HSBC wants is to scare, rather than serve, its customers. Unfortunately the city’s No.1 bank shocked many of its customers yesterday for a few hours over a service update statement that ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-23
When the United States began to roll out COVID-19 vaccines earlier this year, uptake in black communities lagged behind their white counterparts. Many assumed this was by choice: the history of medica ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-23
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
Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) unveiled the “Fintech 2025” strategy earlier this month, recognizing that fintech will become a key growth engine for the financial industry in the post-pandemic er ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-23
... ork or rotating team arrangements to safeguard employees while maintaining their operational capabilities. This was all done in the hope things would soon return to normal. But this wasn’t the case: p ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-22
At the recent G7 summit in Cornwall, Sir David Attenborough described the decisions currently facing the world’s richest countries as “the most important in human history.” He is right. The summit was ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-22
Hong Kong Ballet’s final offering this season at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre last weekend was the premiere of a brand new production of “Romeo + Juliet” created by the artistic director Septime Webr ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-22
Investors like to call the market crash of Q1 2020 an “exogenous” event, a “black swan” – perhaps another way of saying that at least this time, it’s not anyone’s fault. That crisis had a profound dis ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-21
... the Observatory estimated that there will be 5 to 8 tropical cyclones entering within 500 km of Hong Kong in the year, it is believed that the tree collapse cases will continue. Therefore, the public ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-21
Last week the Education Ministry issued a report which urged Hong Kong to legally recognise Mandarin and simplified Chinese. It also said that Mandarin should be incorporated into the city’s exam syst ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-21
Caged homes. A term employed to denote “spaces” that co ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年06月19日
Both the COVID-19 pandemic and global warming are about survival, and are health crises at their core. But typology is not their only common feature. We can also overcome them in a similar way – by wo ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-18
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 c ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年06月18日
The latest G7 summit was a waste of resources. If it had to be held at all, it should have been conducted online, saving time, logistical costs, and airplane emissions. But, more fundamentally, G7 sum ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-17
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
