The Correctional Services Department (CSD) has faced numerous challenges in recent years, including ageing facilities, serious staff turnover. To overcome these challenges, one must start from capabil ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-29
Over the last four years, there has been a massive increase in the amount spent on cloud services - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-14
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s hasty revocation of a hastily announced Easter lockdown was surprising, even shocking, given her ever-calm demeanor. Even more extraordinary was the apology she issue ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-31
After the handover to China, the Macao SAR government ended the gambling monopoly of Stanley Ho and invited foreign companies to bid for a licence. The big Las Vegas casino owners were not so interest ...More
EJ Insight2021-01-26
The coronavirus outbreak has put millions of people out of job across the world. However, several leading banks such as HSBC, Citibank and Morgan Stanley have promised to delay their layoff plans. Tha ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-31
The shock to the global economy from COVID-19 has been both faster and more severe than the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) and even the Great Depression. In those two previous episodes, stock mark ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-25
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in isolation for two weeks after his wife, Sophie, tested positive for coronavirus, Reuters reports. Sophie Gregoire Trudeau recently returned from Londo ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-13
Banking giant HSBC has sent home more than 100 staff in London after a worker tested positive for the coronavirus, Reuters reports. The bank also has an employee in China with the virus who is in a st ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
Don't you wish you're a landlord? Once you've got a property to rent out, you won't have to work anymore. You can just laze around all the days of your life while your tenants work themselves to deat ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05
Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet Inc., said it has raised US$2.25 billion in its first external investment round and expects to add more outside investors, Reuters reports. The company also di ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-03
Four more people tested positive for novel coronavirus (Covid-19) infection over the weekend, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Hong Kong to 98, the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) un ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-02
China’s coronavirus outbreak showed no sign of peaking with health authorities on Friday reporting more than 5,000 new cases, while passengers on a cruise ship blocked from five countries due to virus ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
Air France-KLM has submitted a proposal to acquire 49 percent stake in Malaysia Airlines, while Japan Airlines is looking at buying 25 percent, according to Reuters. Malaysia-based AirAsia Group and M ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-21
An iconic Hong Kong restaurant has cut its staff by half as it attempts to stay afloat amid reduced business, joining the list of entities that have been hit hard by the months-long social unrest. The ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
A cloud of gloom hovered over the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting this month. With the global economy experiencing a synchronized slowdown, any number of tail risks could bring on an outr ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-29
Over the past decade or so, Goldman Sachs Group has watched its annual trading profits fall 84 percent, as post-financial crisis regulations upended Wall Street. Now, bank executives are hoping they h ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-18
The US Federal Reserve on Thursday unveiled a final package of rules easing capital and liquidity requirements for domestic US and foreign banks that were originally introduced following the 2007-2009 ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-11
