... occupied by the Soviet Union from 1944 until it regained its independence in 1990. Its people are fiercely anti-Russian and anti-Communist and sensitive to issues of human rights and democracy. Its p ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-16
... ion. As Toby Ord noted aptly in The Precipice, the thre ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年08月14日
Politics is by no means easy in the contemporary era. On one hand, politicians – especially in electoral or semi-democracies – must answer to the will and whims of their audience; they must entertain ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-13
... rentiated by national income levels. While the authors do not frame ICPFs explicitly as an alternative to CBAMs, they argue that agreed minimum but differentiated carbon prices would reduce the pressu ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-13
... ion. As Toby Ord noted aptly in The Precipice, the threat posed to humanity by climate change by far exceeds a plethora of other, more ominously sounding threats – including a meteor shower, an astero ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-12
... diversify by holding more reserves and conducting more transactions in other currencies. Why this didn’t happen is now clear. The greenback had the advantage of incumbency: the fact that one’s custome ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-12
... ed school-by-radio programs – an early innovation in remote learning. In those days, polio was thought to afflict only industrialized countries, until a major outbreak in South Africa in 1948 led to t ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-12
... ast month by UKHK, a British organisation that helps migrants, of 1,012 people who had migrated or planned to found that 75 per cent were between 30 and 49 and 63.5 per cent were taking their children ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-12
... ast month by UKHK, a British organisation that helps mi ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2021年08月12日
In May 1980, students in the South Korean city of Gwangju rebelled against the unpopular military regime. Many hundreds were brutally murdered by paratroopers sent in to quell the uprising. General Ch ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-11
... mpany led by Chmath Palihapitiya, approved the merger with Opendoor at a valuation of US$4.8 billion. Wu ended up holding six per cent of a company whose shares were down 38 per cent year-to-date. At ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-11
Institutional investors are increasingly embracing the effort to achieve net-zero greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. Some are already implementing portfolio measures and incorporating climate fac ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-10
... conducted by the Anti-Triad Division. That the inquiry was conducted in-house, raises concerns as to its objectivity. I am put in mind of Senior Superintendent Sin Kam Wah who accepted the services of ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-10
... in China. By June 2020, six months after the first case was detected in China, the death toll from the coronavirus hit 500,000 globally, with more than 10 million cases worldwide. Today, more than 4 m ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-10
Judging by the number of times phrases such as “equitable growth” and “the distributional footprint of monetary policy” appear in central bankers’ speeches nowadays, it is clear that monetary policyma ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-09
... t as the abyss. Yet in the midst of all this, first came the great news of the triumph of Olympiad Edgar Cheung in the fencing. It reminded me that fencing was introduced to my school by a Hong Kong s ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-09
According to the latest research by Harvard University, 8 million people die from air pollution every year. A report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2016 also confirms that 92% of ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-09
