A reasonable society ought to make provisions and accommodation, such that any and all reasonable preferences, tastes, opinions, and needs, can be reflected by the way people are treated by the laws a ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-12
... Omicron that is already prevalent in the United States, Canada, and several Asian countries. Although the World Health Organization has identified EG.5 as a “variant of interest,” it is not a major pu ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-12
While Donald Trump holds the dubious distinction of being the first former US president to run for office while facing criminal charges, he is not the first political candidate in American history to ...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
In the China of President Xi Jinping, security trumps economy. This means that the government is unlikely to meet its 2023 growth target of five per cent. The large stimulus package that would be need ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-11
A recent study from OpenAI and the University of Pennsylvania found that OpenAI's latest language-processing model GPT-4 would affect mostly educated white-collars with an annual earning up to US$80,0 ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-08
“Taiwan must not become Ukraine and I will not let Taiwan become the next Ukraine.” With these dramatic words, Terry Gou, 72, founder of the Foxconn Group and one of Taiwan’s richest men, announced hi ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-08
Utility companies are essential to the green transition. Which means climate focused investors cannot afford to ignore them. Power utilities attract controversy for their outsized impact on climate ch ...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
... these dramatic words, Terry Gou, 72, founder of the Fox ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2023年09月07日
Coffee keeps one awake but wine makes one tired. Now, what would people make of the alcohol-infused latte made by Kweichow Moutai and Luckin Coffee that raked in 100 million yuan in sales in yesterday ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-06
The first debate between the Republican Party’s candidates for next year’s US presidential election revealed major schisms over foreign policy. While former US Vice President Mike Pence and former US ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-06
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
Last March, as Chinese President Xi Jinping was finishing a state visit to Russia, he bid an emotional farewell to his host, President Vladimir Putin. “Right now there are changes the likes of which w ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-05
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
