... affected by severe food insecurity, and up to 811 million people hungry. Another quarter of the world’s population suffers from various forms of malnutrition, including obesity, with huge negative ef ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-20
As the world cast their eyes on the Tokyo Olympics, international investors turn to Japanese equities in the hunt for attractive opportunities brought by the country’s ongoing structural changes. As a ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-19
Hong Kong’s job market continues to recover, with the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropping by 0.5 percentage points to 5 percent for the period between May and July, according to the Census ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-19
... embraced by the US, which is probably a non-starter – at least for now. That brings us to the third reason why the current system has lasted: the US wanted it to. As we saw during Donald Trump’s pres ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-19
... followed by Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, and then two ...全文
今日信報時事評論Jeffrey D. Sachs2021年08月19日
... strategy by mainland newcomers, most notably Luckin Coffee, now bankrupted after opening more than 4,500 kiosks in just a few years in an attempt to challenge bigger rival Starbucks, which turned out ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-18
... followed by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait, and then two US-led Gulf Wars, in 1990 and 2003. The latest round of the Afghan tragedy began in 2001. Barely a month after the terror attacks of September 11 ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-18
... ar hosted by the BRICS Policy Center, the BRICS “have seen a divergence, inconsistency, and lack of cooperation on COVID-19 vaccination.” The BRICS countries are not new to so-called “vaccine diplomac ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-17
... ce. Asked by his workmate, Ah Him, the son of his employer, for the use of his address, he agreed to deliver the post office parcel delivery notice to someone in an MTR station. The case against him w ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-17
... 共」(United by Emotion)。東京奧組委稱,希望在開幕式上,「重申體育的意義和奧運的價值,對我們 ...全文
Politics is by no means easy in the contemporary era. O ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightA Hongkonger2021年08月17日
Last year, Microsoft announced that it will be carbon-negative by 2030. “If we don’t curb emissions, and temperatures continue to climb,” the firm said on its official blog, “science tells us that the ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-16
... eas, thereby predicting and detecting the spread of virus. Hong Kong is moving towards zero local cases of COVID-19, this technology can be very useful and is worthy of consideration by the government ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-16
... 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