... United States. Trade with China dropped 3.1 per cent to 246.3 billion euros and Germany’s trade deficit widened. Chinese imports were down 0.3 per cent to 156.3 billion euros and German exports fell ...More
EJ Insight2025-03-05
In 1841, the population of Ireland was 8.18 million. Last year it was 7.2 million, including the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland that is part of the United Kingdom. It is one of the few count ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-28
... saying that Hong Kong was finished?” Mary Leung, a civil servant, was speaking about a friend who left for Britain two years, one of 150,000 Hong Kongers who have emigrated since 2021, when London op ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-23
... suicide rather than be captured. This was the extraordinary testimony of the first North Korean soldier to give an interview since Pyongyang sent 12,000 soldiers to Russia last autumn to join Vladimi ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-23
... presented at the talks. This week in Saudia Arabia the foreign ministers of the United States and Russia will meet to discuss an end to Russia’s three-year invasion of Ukraine. Neither Ukraine nor Eur ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-17
When the board of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) scheduled its first ever board meeting in the United States this week, next to the giant plant it is building in Phoenix, Arizona, i ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-13
A quarter of the 21st century has nearly passed. Looking back over the past 20 odd years, Hong Kong has experienced two epidemics, and has witnessed great ups and downs socially, politically and econo ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-11
With the return of Donald Trump to the White House on January 20, negotiations to end Russia’s three-year invasion of Ukraine are imminent. The most difficult subject will be the future of the 27 per ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-11
I have written previously of the “manufacturing” of success by US President Donald J Trump. Much as consent and misinformation, success – too – has become an artificial product, one that is birthed fr ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-05
Over the past decade, the amount of waste produced by Hong Kong residents has remained high. According to government data, the per capita municipal solid waste disposal rate per day in Hong Kong incre ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-04
On the campaign trail last year, US President Donald J Trump proudly declared that “to me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff”. His brusque and assertive rhetoric resonated naturally ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-04
... nd Conservative politicians have prevented implementation of the project. But a request from President Xi Jinping to British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and a visit by Chancellor Rachel Reeves to ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-04
... 。￭ 美國電話電報(AT&T)公布，按照一般通用會計準則，去年第四季淨利潤錄得40.3億美元，前一年同 ...全文
What makes or breaks a world-class city? Some would posit the answer rests with infrastructure – the more modern and advanced the hardware, the more developed the software. Others would advocate we pr ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-26
