... ne driven by high-tech industry and exports. In 2025, nearly 80 per cent of the work will have jobs in the service sector, including technology and finance, up from 45 per cent in 1973. From 1973 to 2 ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-28
... cared for by the teachers. Language is also an issue. While many Hongkongers have a good standard of written English, their spoken language may not be good enough to catch the nuances, jokes and refer ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-23
North Korean soldiers sent by the government to fight Ukrainians were not told they were going to war and their parents do not know where they are. They were not prepared for drone warfare and were or ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-23
In September 1938, Britain and France agreed to give Nazi Germany control of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia without a fight. It was called the Munich Agreement, or the Munich Betrayal by the ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-17
... ct signed by President Joe Biden in August 2022, with the aim to increase chip manufacturing in the U.S., just as Trump wants to do. TSMC is receiving US$6.6 billion in grants and US$5 billion in loan ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-13
... affected by climate change, losing their homes and becoming "climate refugees", they might be forced to become sea nomads, living in free-floating houses on the sea, moving between seas and different ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-11
... on seized by Russia in 2014. In Ukraine, the Russian army has introduced policies similar to those of Josef Stalin in 1921. “The occupation has changed all the aspects of daily life,” said Anna Mourly ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-11
I have written previously of the “manufacturing” of success by US President Donald J Trump. Much as consent and misinformation, success – too – has become an artificial product, one that is birthed fr ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-05
Over the past decade, the amount of waste produced by Hong Kong residents has remained high. According to government data, the per capita municipal solid waste disposal rate per day in Hong Kong incre ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-04
... d a visit by Chancellor Rachel Reeves to Beijing in January have removed the obstacles. The Royal Mint Court, a historic building, sits on a prime site close to the Tower of London and the Thames rive ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-04
... – from Babylon to Changan, from Rome to Edo – is the quality of ambition. Ambition is necessary but insufficient for greatness: not just of individual leaders or personalities, but of entire peoples ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-26
... r million by 2060, it said. The gift of cigarettes, to officials and company managers, helps drive demand at the top end of the market. “The giving of cigarettes is no simple matter. There is a techni ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-23
