US tech firms such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. should be more aggressive in tackling extremism and political misinformation if they want to avoid government action, a study from the World Econom ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-31
The Earth today is more than 1°C hotter than it was in pre-industrial times, and the terrible symptoms of its fever are already showing. This year alone, back-to-back hurricanes have devastated Caribb ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-24
In Hong Kong, STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) is a new buzz-word in education. Various new programs, including robot design and coding, are introduced to a growing number of st ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-09
Chief Executive Carrie Lam will deliver her maiden Policy Address on Oct. 11. From the viewpoint of a locally bred practitioner of information technology industry, I hope that the Policy Address can i ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-06
The Education Bureau has been promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), causing more parents to become aware of the importance of such subjects. During the summer break, HKT E ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-04
Team Hong Kong made an outstanding debut at the 2nd International Olympiad of Metropolises (IOM), a multidisciplinary competition for students, in Moscow. The local contingent of eight students, inclu ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-12
Nearly six in ten schools that receive financial support under the government's Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) have increased their tuition fees in the new academic year that began this month. The tuitio ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-08
As the public eagerly waits to see how Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is going to deliver her “new deal” in her upcoming policy address, particularly on housing, Marco Wu Moon-hoi, chairma ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-07
A US judge said Yahoo must face nationwide litigation brought on behalf of well over one billion users who said their personal information was compromised in three massive data breaches, Reuters repor ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-01
The potential of women in cybersecurity is seriously underestimated, according to a study by the Global Information Security Workforce, which interviewed nearly 20,000 professionals in the information ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-31
Amazon.com Inc. said it will cut prices on a range of popular goods as it completes its acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc., sending shares of rival grocers tumbling on fears that brutal market sha ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-25
On Wednesday the police officially pressed charges against Democratic Party member Howard Lam Tsz-kin, accusing him of making false abduction claims and deliberately misleading the authorities. Some i ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-17
US retailer Michael Kors has agreed to buy luxury shoemaker Jimmy Choo for US$1.2 billion, snapping up a British company whose towering stilettos have been made famous by celebrity customers from Prin ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-26
Finance is a service industry that has become self-serving. The consequence, regrettably, is the frequent occurrence of debilitating financial crises that undermine economic growth and development wor ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-24
All told, heading a university is an honorable dream for an educator. But the road to becoming a vice chancellor can be rough. How rough? Think about the tough time Robert De Niro gave Ben Stiller in ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-10
Research firm Gartner estimated that climate change and sustainability would become key performance indicators for half of all the smart cities. Like other international cities, Hong Kong needs to red ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-10
Chief Executive Carrie Lam has pledged to do her best to improve the relationship between the legislative and executive branches during her five-year term. In her first question-and-answer session at ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-06
Winning Tower Group Holdings (08362.HK), a food supplier, issued 350 million shares in an initial public offering (IPO) on Hong Kong's Growth Enterprise Market (GEM). Everything was normal with the de ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-04
Apple Daily newspaper, which has been a vocal supporter of the democracy movement in Hong Kong, is facing a tough time in its key market. The outspoken daily, launched in 1995 by maverick tycoon Jimmy ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-27
For the past two years, the global economy has been growing, but it has swung between periods of rapid expansion and deceleration. During this period, two episodes, in particular, caused US and global ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-06
