I wrapped up my happy three-week trip in Toronto with a fond memory of delicious Asian meals, long overdue gatherings and autumn-like nice weather – and returned to Hong Kong. Still jetlagged, I was a ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-09
I had the pleasure of watching ‘Barbie’ - by myself - earlier this week. Truth be told, I went in with relatively low expectations. I have a general aversion to movie hypes and hyped-up movies, and ha ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-09
... based and well-governed markets for ecosystem assets and services. Nature and climate stability are two sides of the same coin, and their fates are intertwined. Conserving and restoring biodiversity i ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-09
... f course, we can only speculate whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would have refrained from attacking Ukraine had Europe bolstered its defensive capabilities. But a report by France’s National ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-08
A lifeless blob, a landmass of shredded tissues held together by a briny coagulant, a wreck crawling with mealworms. A whale carcass was found earlier this week in Hong Kong’s eastern waters. Expert ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-08
... he said. “We must stay vigilant and be proactive in safeguarding national security.” That is to say, in Lee’s view, while reviving Hong Kong’s role as a global financial center, it was vital to contin ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-07
We seem to live in an era of rolling financial crisis, which I suspect is the result of a massive build-up of private sector debt. Sometimes these build-ups are accompanied by very high rates of credi ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-04
... the level we would have expected. Living in Causeway Bay for more than three years, I can testify Causeway Bay is mostly not very vibrant, although I still get requests from mainland tourists for road ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-03
... his followers. His campaign compared the latest indictments to persecution in Stalin’s Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. After his federal indictment in June, he told them: “In the end, they’re not comi ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-03
... 2022 and well above the 50% beat rate in Q1. The strong beat count also translates into earnings coming in well ahead of expectations. The S&P 500 has now reported EPS that beat consensus estimat ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-02
... f fuel between January and September 2022. To avoid civil unrest, the International Monetary Fund advocates a gradual phase-out of fuel subsidies coupled with targeted measures to protect the most vul ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-01
... race, between Lai, the current Vice-President, Hou You-yi of the Kuomintang (Nationalist) Party and Ko Wen-je, leader of the Taiwan People’s Party. The latest opinion polls give Lai 34 per cent, agai ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-01
... rning how we could feasibly gauge the happiness levels of citizens of the world in 1923 (or, indeed, gauge how happy folks other than ourselves are, given that the human mind is not always luminous (s ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-31
Essentially, all politicians seek power, whether to use it for the good of their electorate or to advance their personal agenda. A political system that lacks the means to restrain or prevent the abus ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-28
In thinking about how we learn best, I have come to the (plausibly premature) view that learning is best conducted through a ‘T’ paradigm - one that combines the vertical strip (delving deeply into a ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-28
