A young company in Quebec has developed a recycling process for polystyrene that reduces 83 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from virgin resin production. Polystyrene (PS) is one of the most widely ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-03
Solar energy has long been a key priority in bringing electricity to Africa’s rural, and largely off-grid, communities. Stakeholders in solar development have ranged from large development agencies li ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-03
The demise of Hong Kong's democracy camp has been confidently forecast many times and in the wake of the recent Legco by-election defeat the doomsters have been busy dusting off their predictions for ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-30
NASA’s Mars science lander InSight touched down safely on the surface of the Red Planet on Monday to begin its two-year mission as the first spacecraft designed to explore the deep interior of another ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-27
Lingnan Garden, Tsz Shan Monastery, Cityplaza, Tamar headquarters. All these were on a list of secret hotspots that were circulated to Chinese netizens as recommendations for places to see in Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-19
The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday launched the agency’s first high-band 5G spectrum auction as it works to clear space for next-generation faster networks, Reuters reports. Bidding st ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-15
US shared office space provider WeWork Cos has secured an additional US$3 billion in funding from Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp., according to an investor presentation seen by Reuters. The latest fundin ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-14
Ma Jian, an exiled Chinese author considered a dissident by Beijing, has apparently become the latest individual to fall victim to suspected political censorship in Hong Kong. The Qingdao-born Ma, who ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-09
Ford, one of America's pioneering car manufacturers, has acquired e-scooter and bike-sharing startup Spin as part of efforts to beef up its mobility business. Financial terms were not disclosed in the ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-09
We have been reading numerous comments recently about a forthcoming recession and the next crisis, particularly on the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The question is not whether ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-02
The trade war which US President Donald Trump has launched against China is the start of a long-term conflict between the two countries. The US establishment – Democrats and Republicans alike – has id ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-01
南韓外長康京和10月10日表示正審閱對平壤實施的制裁;美國總統特朗普反應強烈,告訴記者南韓需要「美國的批准」才 ...全文
The bike-sharing trend has taken Hong Kong by storm – and appears to have subsided just as fast. Since last year, six bike-sharing operators have emerged in the city. But amid fast-paced expansion and ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-19
As expected, ousted pro-democracy lawmaker Lau Siu-lai was barred from running in the upcoming Legislative Council by-election in Kowloon West with the returning officer citing again her political sta ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-16
The Hong Kong government on Thursday rebuffed a US congressional panel report that suggested that the territory's autonomy and freedoms, including free speech rights and the space for political dissen ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-12
The US Justice Department said it has arrested and indicted a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security on charges of economic espionage and attempting to steal trade secrets from several US aviation ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-11
Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to take a majority stake in shared office space provider WeWork Cos, in what would be one of the largest deals of the past decade’s startup boom, the Wall Stre ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-10
Facebook Inc. released a smart speaker designed to ease video calls, but the company’s history of privacy mishaps and the device’s price and limited functionality could slow it from taking on market l ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
Uncontrolled spending and ruinous results: Brazil has been a prime example of the policy of “more is less”. Under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, the country felt invincible and believed ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-03
LINE, a Japan-based mobile messaging app owned by South Korean internet giant Naver, aims to create a blockchain ecosystem for its service offerings. Its blockchain efforts have included the establish ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02