... nuclear power should play a role in lowering global greenhouse-gas emissions. But in many countries, a large share of the population regard nuclear energy as dangerous and even polluting. These consen ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-24
Death tolls don’t lie. The most striking disparity in COVID-19 fatalities to date is between East Asian countries, where the total number of deaths per million inhabitants is consistently below ten, a ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-23
... eems like we are trying to learn the art of juggling (sometimes while on a bicycle and blindfolded!). Governments around the world are struggling to find equilibrium between multiple factors: public h ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-22
... 2 months, we have seen licensed funds offering digital asset portfolios to their client base, banks undertaking projects to service digital asset clients and, investment banks and traditional licensed ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-22
The COVID-19 crisis has caused scientists, governments, and public-health experts to scramble to understand the relationship between the transmission of zoonotic diseases (those that jump from animals ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-21
When we grade the major events in the map industry within the first half of the year, Facebook’s acquisition of a startup Mapillary is definitely one of them. What is Mapillary? Many drivers have such ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-21
... anies, as well as the Wellcome Trust and the European Investment Bank, have signed on to the initiative, which was announced via a globally coordinated presentation broadcast simultaneously from Europ ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-20
... bility between payment networks. “Hong Kong has adopted the Faster Payment System (FPS) where they use the mobile phone number or the email address as a form of payment identifier as well. So similar ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-17
... States showed that for every 1% increase in unemployment rate, the suicide rate would rise by 4.1%. During the SARS outbreak in 2003, the unemployment rate in Hong Kong once rose to 8.6%. The suicide ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-17
... 「美國與港人同行」（We stand with the Hong Kong people）。同時，9位前美國駐 ...全文
... g Kong as we knew it. I don’t want to pontificate over the law – enough has been said as is. I want to make the case that in the post-National Security Law Hong Kong, the timing is ripe for universal ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-16
... ponse, as well as signs of a quick recovery of economic activity following lockdowns and a limited amount of business failures, we believe that markets are responding appropriately; though longer term ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-16
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Those wise words date back to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 inauguration speech. Most of today’s Hongkongers likely have never heard of Roose ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-16
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Those wi ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2020年07月16日
... asses, as well as spreading out their academic year so that fewer students will be on campus at any time. Make no mistake: COVID-19 represents a massive economic hit to higher education. Dorm rooms ar ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-15
... The rules were apparently concocted by the bright men and women of the firm's Human Resources Department, who are understandably always desk-bound except when going to the washroom or attending a meet ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-15
... s soon as we introduced this, we started seeing more people from the mass market who are not familiar with cryptocurrency at all [to use Wirex].” Coupled with the rising interests in holding cryptocur ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-14
