As I sit through hundreds of hours of meetings of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), I am often in deep awe of the energy and focus of the growing number of members championing more equal trea ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-13
I was away from Hong Kong for several weeks and internet connection was available only once in a while. When I learned through my mobile phone that Professor Johannes Chan Man-mun had come under attac ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-10
It's bad enough that on any given day, our immigration checkpoints are overwhelmed by visitors from the mainland and our government is hard pressed to do anything about the situation. But when we hear ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-09
It wasn't something that Eugenia Ye Lushan (葉璐珊) had bargained for when she enrolled at the University of Hong Kong two years ago. Eugenia, who is pursuing a course at HKU's Faculty of Business and Ec ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-06
If there's one place in Hong Kong that has yet to be invaded by government politics and propaganda, it's the schools. That makes them one of the last bastions of a basic freedom -- free speech -- and ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-30
Hong Kong students got a rare opportunity Thursday to lob questions at Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying face-to-face, a chance which they utilized fully by raising various issues pertaining to the city ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-30
Let me confide a brutal and embarrassing truth. I hate my Kindle, and all the books I devour on it. I miss my books… the feel of them, the smell of them, the sense of “place” as I work steadily throug ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-30
The Charlie Hebdo massacre and the massive quantitative easing by the European Central Bank reveal the profound social and economic woes the French government is now facing. One of the François Hollan ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-29
Some pro-Beijing groups are hell-bent on getting the National People’s Congress (NPC) to implement China's state security law in Hong Kong. They want to make sure the proposal is on the agenda of the ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
Leung Chun-ying's policy address last week has received the lowest approval rating ever for such annual endeavors by Hong Kong's leaders since the 1997 handover. According to the latest poll from the ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying brought up the question of Hong Kong’s independence recently, offering Hongkongers an opportunity to ponder this serious subject. Is the idea of the city fighting for i ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-21
Since the European sovereign-debt crisis erupted in 2009, everyone has wondered what would happen if a country left the eurozone. At first, the debate focused on crisis countries – Greece, or maybe Po ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-19
A French comedian will stand trial after making a joke that appeared to sympathize with Islamist extremists behind the massacre of more than a dozen people in Paris last week. Dieudonné M’bala M’bala ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-15
Hong Kong's judiciary has confronted a growing challenge in recent times to uphold the rule of law and defend the city's core values such as fairness and transparency. The task facing the judges was r ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-13
The United States is ready to fire up its first commercial garbage incinerator in 20 years. The US$670 million facility, located in West Palm Beach, Florida, is capable of turning 3,000 tons of tras ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-12
Should a portion of Hong Kong's country parks be redeveloped to help solve the city's housing problem? Yes, according to one academic, who believes that maintaining country parks at their current size ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-05
With Western economic sanctions against Russia, Iran and Cuba in the news, it is a good time to take stock of the debate on just how well such measures work. The short answer is that economic sanction ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-05
Economist Thomas Piketty has joined Nobel laureates Jean-Paul Sartre (literature) and Marie Curie (chemistry, physics) in turning down France's most prestigious award, the Legion d'Honneur, CNN report ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
Britain considered rearming itself at a cost of up to £200 million (US$311.2 million) after learning the Soviet Union was developing a new poison gas capable of overwhelming NATO forces. Then Prime Mi ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-31
Early in 2013, the Philippine government initiated international arbitral proceedings against China over their maritime dispute in the South China Sea. Beijing announced that it would not take part, a ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-31
