... g Pao and Wong Kei-kwan, the cartoonist’s real name, had been excoriated by the secretary for security, Chris Tang. He said that the cartoonist had “targeted the government more than once and made mis ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-06
The most challenging thing I ever had to learn in life, was to say No. Here in Hong Kong, we are told from a young age that to succeed, we must ‘try our best’, and to be the best at each and everythin ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-31
Essayist George Santayana once quipped the above, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” At face value, this aphorism is rather apt and intuitive. After all, history sheds li ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-24
How should we come to understand success? There exists a plethora of metrics out there. One’s wealth and net worth, tracked approximately by one’s income and occupational class. One’s so-called ‘socia ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-23
... and Iris Wong of Maryknoll Convent School (Secondary Section). They explored the status, potential and challenges of geothermal energy in China, and hope to persuade the world, especially the Mainlan ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-18
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?” Mr. Bennet remarked in Pride and Prejudice. I suppose the same question could be asked of writers, and the s ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-10
We are raising our youth to become hyper-efficient question-answering machines, but fundamentally constricted askers of questions. For far too long we have equated academic excellence and accomplishme ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-09
Much has been written on how friendships begin… A chance encounter on the streets. A shared workplace. A neighbourhood in which one is brought up with another. Acquaintances, friends, good friends. So ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-08
There is something conspicuously perverse about the state of domestic political discourse in Hong Kong. There is an odious, growing tendency to brand all things “Western” as evil, and to celebrate all ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-03
As a general rule of thumb, policies that deliver for the people, are much better than promises of policies that claim to deliver. The Inflation Reduction Act introduced by Biden’s White House, for al ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-14
Every once in a while, we may find ourselves doing things that are quite clearly beyond our comfort zone. Such actions may confuse us. They may also thwart us and catch us off guard at our most vulner ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-13
