Was Japan’s invasion of China 80-some years ago a good thing? Sounds like a silly question to ask and yet it was posed in the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education examination last week, sparking a ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-19
What happens when the government gets involved in running massive entertainment complexes? The answer is obvious because everything the Hong Kong government touches has a habit of turning to dust. Thi ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-18
... urnalists were burned out or on the brink. The cycle of breaking news was relentless, income from advertising revenues was falling, newsroom budgets were strained, and public trust in media was declin ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-15
(From left to right) Brian Hui, Head of Customer Proposition and Marketing, Wealth and Personal Banking, Hong Kong, HSBC and Sami Abouzahr, Head of Customer Wealth, Wealth and Personal Banking, Hong K ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-14
YouTube's viewership in the United States has increased by more than 15 percent during the recent coronavirus outbreak, according to the New York Times. As you can imagine, while most of us have been ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-14
Many of us remember the terrible time in early-mid 2003 when SARS hit Hong Kong. As with Covid-19 today, schools were closed (at least for a while), tourist arrivals went down to almost nothing, and r ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-13
... shifting weather patterns and loss of intact ecosystems and biodiversity, COVID-19 is a threat multiplier. Just as policymakers address the short-term effects of greenhouse gases and fossil fuels, go ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-13
... ion. Gone were the rosy days in the West when it was be ...全文
今日信報時事評論Brian Wong2020年05月13日
China’s apparent willingness to cooperate with the World Health Organization in an open investigation into the origin of the Covid-19 virus, asserted repeatedly last week by its foreign ministry, is a ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-12
... is. “When we did our market study, we started realizing that, whereas Singapore had imported 90 percent of the fresh vegetables, Hong Kong was even higher, at 98 percent,” said Moy, “and we immediatel ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-12
... tive, for we have choices to make about our institution ...全文
... as read Orwell’s 1984, the title ‘Secretary for Justice’ carries an ominous threat of Big Brother. So, if the Liaison Office is a central government duck, it must be quacking on behalf of Beijing. But ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-11
... ion. Gone were the rosy days in the West when it was believed – perhaps naively, perhaps out of the scarred memories over the Cold War – that economic trade, cultural interaction, and diplomatic rheto ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-11
... today’s lower air pollution will temporarily spare some people’s health, it is also true that winds are much calmer in the eye of a hurricane. Last year, roughly six million people worldwide died as a ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-08
