In a day and age where so many men in suits wear designer trainers of one brand or another, the very idea of wearing leather shoes that match the rest of one’s attire may appear a trifle antedeluvian. ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-13
... hope is that Taiwan can seize this once-in-a-hundred years, rare EV business opportunity.”But it faces formidable challenges, not least in China, the world’s largest EV market, from its big cellphone ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-13
According to the first world report on vision issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019, at least 2.2 billion people have a vision impairment or blindness globally, which forms a huge fina ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-10
A little more than a month ago, Hong Kong faced a major political crisis. Hours after the Court of Final Appeal rejected the government’s latest attempt to block former newspaper magnate Jimmy Lai – n ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-10
... tioning that the United Kingdom and the United States were the Soviet Union’s allies during the war. Then as now, he added, Russia is threatened by German tanks, forced to defend itself against “the i ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-10
The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO), a regional macroeconomic surveillance organization, estimates that the ASEAN's economy could grow by 4.6% this year, down from 5.3% in 2022, but still ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-09
... The same pattern has applied in Europe and in the US in recent years – where boutiques re-opened, travel resumed and a return to events, restaurants, parties spurred sales of everything from hotel roo ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-09
As we embark on a new year, I have been reflecting on “resolutions,” and more specifically, what it takes for an individual or a society to be resolute in a world of endless challenges and obstacles. ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-09
Hong Kong has been stunned by the suicide in London of a talented graduate who emigrated to the UK in April last year with a BNO passport and worked in a charity. A coroner’s court in late January rul ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-09
... nted graduate who emigrated to the UK in April last yea ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2023年02月09日
... been isolated for three years until a month ago when it lifted the travel ban. Hong Kong people are generally happier now that traveling has resumed. For those who are still not back in the air, at l ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-08
The US Federal Reserve is being dangerously complacent about climate change. While it understandably does not want to take the lead on an issue that remains so politically polarizing in the United Sta ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-08
As if conditions weren’t gloomy enough in the United Kingdom, the International Monetary Fund recently downgraded the country’s growth forecast even as it offered a brighter outlook for the rest of th ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-08
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the weaknesses and lack of preparedness of health systems globally. When the virus was at its peak, many low- and middle-income countries struggled to save lives whil ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-07
... e in the catering sector, as they are already grappling with sluggish customer spending amid the current gloomy economic outlook. Nevertheless, the situation should create incentives for a transition ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-07
The COVID-19 pandemic, compounded by supply-chain disruptions and surging inflation, has highlighted the fragilities of Africa’s food systems, leading to a 60% increase in hunger across the continent ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-06
My book on the economic history of the twentieth century, published last fall, did not include a chapter on the question of the future or “what we should do next,” because my frequent co-author, Steph ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-06
