I felt I never really left North Point. I lived in the area during my teenage years. For my first job, I went to work at North Point Industrial Building , where the former office of Hong Kong Economic ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-12
... he fact that last year’s extraordinary circumstances still did not bring global emissions into line with the targets set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement is a stark reminder of the scale of the cha ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-12
When I was growing up in northern India’s Kashmir Valley, my physician father would often accompany me when I received my annual vaccinations. I used to ask him how vaccines worked and where they were ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-12
... s means that boosting productivity is the most direct and immediate way to improve economic performance. For example, were annual growth in total factor productivity in the United States to rise to 2% ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-11
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a truly dire toll on India. The sights are abhorrent to behold. 4,000+ daily deaths, 400,000+ daily cases, with the actual numbers likely to be in the ballpark of 10, e ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-11
... official data. "Hong Kong is a city rife with inequalit ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightA Hong Konger2021年05月11日
In his recent address to the US Congress, President Joe Biden warned that China is deadly serious about trying to become the world’s most significant power. But Biden also declared that autocrats will ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-10
“Hong Kong is a city rife with inequalities. Rampant resource inegalitarianism, abhorrently exborbitant housing prices, and – above all – an administration and ruling class that is deeply out of touch ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-10
According to the latest population projections from 2017 to 2066 released by the Census and Statistics Department, the elderly aged 65 or above will constitute 30% of the population within 15 years. T ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-10
... variant that is resistant to vaccines, forcing us all back into some form of lockdown. Given the emergence of worrisome new mutations in India, Brazil, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere, ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-07
... to be located closer to where people live, well-connected and cost-effective. Yet, with all the hype about remote working, the workforce is not quite ready to completely let go of physical workspaces ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-06
What is remarkable about the increase in nationalist sentiment across the developed world in recent years is that it is occurring at a time when many of today’s most pressing challenges, including cli ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-06
... not all that different from his rococo predecessor’s “America First” credo. As Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, recently noted, “there is more foreign-policy continuit ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-06
Vaccinations are not going well in Hong Kong. Uptake is ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年05月06日
If you cannot force someone to do something, perhaps you can try to motivate them and make them happier. The subject in question is Covid-19 vaccination, which the Hong Kong government is trying every ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-05
