... increased by 5.8 points from last year to 52.8 on a hundred-point scale, placing the city’s enterprises at the “basic” level. Hong Kong has witnessed a surge in ransomware attacks, with a number of in ...More
EJ Insight2025-03-05
... not abide by “western rule of law standards.” He warned German companies that investing there involved “great risk”. “My heartfelt request to all companies – limit the risk you take in order to avoid ...More
EJ Insight2025-03-05
... ne driven by high-tech industry and exports. In 2025, nearly 80 per cent of the work will have jobs in the service sector, including technology and finance, up from 45 per cent in 1973. From 1973 to 2 ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-28
... cared for by the teachers. Language is also an issue. While many Hongkongers have a good standard of written English, their spoken language may not be good enough to catch the nuances, jokes and refer ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-23
North Korean soldiers sent by the government to fight Ukrainians were not told they were going to war and their parents do not know where they are. They were not prepared for drone warfare and were or ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-23
In September 1938, Britain and France agreed to give Nazi Germany control of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia without a fight. It was called the Munich Agreement, or the Munich Betrayal by the ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-17
... ct signed by President Joe Biden in August 2022, with the aim to increase chip manufacturing in the U.S., just as Trump wants to do. TSMC is receiving US$6.6 billion in grants and US$5 billion in loan ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-13
... affected by climate change, losing their homes and becoming "climate refugees", they might be forced to become sea nomads, living in free-floating houses on the sea, moving between seas and different ...More
EJ Insight2025-02-11
... on seized by Russia in 2014. In Ukraine, the Russian army has introduced policies similar to those of Josef Stalin in 1921. “The occupation has changed all the aspects of daily life,” said Anna Mourly ...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
