Crowdfunding is not a modern invention. As scholar Nadine Scholz points out, the construction of the plinth of the Statue of Liberty was possible only after 160,000 New York citizens made donations in ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-21
... Taiwan’s Liberty Times reported on Thursday that the central government has launched a campaign in northwestern China's Xinjiang province to “encourage” Muslim ethnic groups to take part in cultural ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-17
After having taken the liberty of diverting the remaining HK$100 million (US$12.9 million) in government donations originally intended for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake victims into funding the Wolong n ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-06
... rcise the liberty that exists here. Only the most dimwitted student leader will not be able to understand that this liberty is derived from Hong Kong’s rather peculiar history and is only sustained b ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-03
... of social liberty and openness. As a matter of fact, like anywhere else, life in the Netherlands isn't perfect, but there is still quite a lot we can learn from its higher education and social system. ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-30
... ndividual liberty and respect for individual property. “Assuming that the abstract individual was the center of all things and that the state existed only to secure his interests, it was thought that ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-12
... ndividual liberty have long been the essence of the prevailing culture. How Hongkongers may respond, when someone they know is arrested as a protester, can be somewhere in between, and I am pretty sur ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-11
San Miguel Corp., the Philippines' largest company, moved to shore up investor confidence after a planned US$1 billion wireless telecom venture with Australia's Telstra collapsed Monday. Liberty Telec ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-15
... love for liberty and a tenacious sense of belonging that was never envisaged by the British and most certainly is not in the plans of the new masters, yet they have to find a way of dealing with it. ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-27
... academic liberty is a blow struck against the meaning of a university, the irony today is that some of the most worrying attacks on these values have been coming from inside universities. In the Unit ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
... edoms and liberty our government is meant to protect." Apple's strong reaction to the court order dramatically escalates the battle between the tech industry and the US government over how much compan ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-18
... ce and at Liberty Square in Taipei to demonstrate its solidarity with the Hong Kong democrats. The island’s elections also inspired Hongkongers as to how genuine democracy works. Hong Kong and Taiwan' ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
... fe and at liberty to do anything. The Hong Kong police, therefore, should wrap up the investigation after Lee crossed the border of his own accord. 3) Top officials pay lip service to the issue in the ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-12
... ly not at liberty to do anything right now, should somehow come forward and explain his situation. The message conveyed by the Hong Kong government is clear: people who stand up to the Chinese Communi ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-09
... given the liberty to fill in the contents themselves? Furthermore, if the contents are to be issued by the regulatory authority, will they be issued as mandatory regulations or as non-mandatory codes ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-28
... Taiwan's Liberty Times, meanwhile, has reported that Wong was last seen Sunday near his Taipei residence. According to some witnesses, he was forced into a car by two men, suggesting that he may have ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-24
... personal liberty and income without transitioning to democracy,” according to the Cato Institute report published on Monday in the US. Hong Kong's close adherence to the policies and institutions it ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-26
... Malone’s Liberty Global Plc. is considering expanding its cable holdings in Europe and Verizon Communications Inc. is offering bundled cable, fixed-line, and mobile services to its US subscribers. Ch ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
... eaten the liberty of Hong Kong there will be a response. The problem is that some of those responding are getting more frustrated and may well resort to more desperate kinds of protest. -- Contact us ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-04
... ured such liberty and freedom. In other words, the doom of 1997 has been postponed to 2047. Now, given that China has long risen from a sickman of East Asia to a global autocracy, a superpower that be ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-30
