... carcerated. Trump’s secretary of energy and former Texas Governor Rick Perry, for example, had an abuse-of-power charge pending against him when he briefly sought the Republican Party’s presidential n ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-12
The rituals of fall in the northern hemisphere now include preparing for a fresh variant of COVID-19, in addition to the annual flu season. This year, it is EG.5 (nicknamed Eris, the ancient Greek god ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-12
... carcerated. Trump’s secretary of energy and former Texas Governor Rick Perry, for example, had an abuse-of-power charge pending against him when he briefly sought the Republican Party’s presidential n ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-11
Amid an escalating climate emergency and a global debt crisis, calls for a new “fit for climate” global financial architecture are growing louder throughout the developing world. The urgent need for d ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-11
Last Friday saw Hong Kong hit by one of the worst, if not downright the worst, rainstorms it has endured in recorded history. 158.1mm of rain was recorded at the Observatory headquarters between 11pm ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-11
... nd writers. This echoes the predictions of the Future of Jobs Report 2023 released by the World Economic Forum that as many as 83 million jobs would be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI). This i ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-08
I often travel past a small noodle shop on Bonham Road which found itself the centre of much unwanted attention recently. For many years, the shop has been a favourite haunt of construction workers on ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-07
The recent BRICS summit in South Africa marks the start of a new phase of Great Power competition. At the apparent urging of China, the BRICS group (which also includes Brazil, Russia, India, and Sout ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-07
Today, any conversation about artificial intelligence (AI) is bound to include the emergence of ChatGPT, a widely used chatbot built on OpenAI’s GPT series of large language models (LLMs). However, ac ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-06
There has been much handwringing about the retreat of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism in recent years – and for good reason. From Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to former Brazilian P ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-05
Behind today’s global disorder are two related narratives about countries’ relative strengths and weaknesses in the competition for global power. One is about the long-term rise and fall of nations an ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-04
... 海水樣本，氚濃度為2.6貝克。至於其他9個地點的海水樣本，氚濃度未達到檢測下限。 東電表示，樣本的氚濃度上升是 ...全文
In the debate about how to curb global warming, climate action is often confused for climate justice. Many European countries (including the United Kingdom) have taken to self-flagellation, atoning fo ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-01
In July 2019, the United Kingdom’s foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, launched a global campaign for media freedom at a London conference co-organized by the Canadian government. “Today, we are joined by ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-01
To understand a country fully, requires us to understand its government, its economy, its people, and the underlying propositions that a) no country is identical, and b) no country is a monolith. The ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-31
... think of”. This treasure-hunting spot is the Camel Paint Building, which stole the media limelight after a famous rice noodle shop Kwong Wing Mixian was ordered to shut down because it did not have t ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
With a lack of ground-breaking technological innovation over the past few decades in the highly industrialised countries, the labour productivity growth there has diminished. This is the conclusion of ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
... zeitgeist. There’s no escape from it - not just as a concept, but also on a substantive level: from the applications we use to the snazzier home appliances that we may have installed, AI is likely to ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
... narratives. The fossil-fuel industry is a prime example. In a desperate effort to deflect attention from their historical responsibility for climate change, oil and gas companies have been touting var ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
