I have had the pleasure of working on the piloting of two Master’s programmes at the University of Hong Kong – the MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and the MA in AI, Ethics, and Society. Und ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-15
In 2024, China posted a trade surplus of US$990 billion. It was both a record for China and also a record in world history, exceeding the surpluses of the U.S., Japan and Germany in comparative terms. ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-15
A few weeks back, I watched one of the most widely anticipated releases of 2024 – Conclave, a riveting political thriller directed by Edward Berger. Without giving too much away, I would settle for th ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-15
Singapore launched its Smart Nation 1.0 initiative in 2014, which outlines three major directions, namely digital economy, digital government and digital society, with a focus on the development of te ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-13
“Carpe Diem” – we are told. To seize the day, is a moral prerogative. We must expend each and every hour, minute, and second with due care and caution, paying conscientious heed to the fact that our t ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-09
... mpire of Water” Majapahit Kingdom and the Hindu-Buddhist cultures that blossomed in the first millennium; from the insidious and multi-century process of Dutch colonisation (featuring a brief interreg ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-09
... world. “What inspired me to write ‘A Doctors’ Life in Hong Kong’ was the thought that, after I was gone, my children and family would not have a good record of my life,” he said. “My parents did not l ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-09
... ky said that more than 3,000 North Koreans had been killed or wounded in intense fighting in the Kursk region of western Russia. Last October, Pyongyang sent 12,000 troops to help the Russian army. Im ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-06
... f the education and I&T sectors, I believe that building Hong Kong as an artificial intelligence (AI) training base is a top priority. The scale of AI talent training in China has grown rapidly in ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-06
There are unpopular presidents, popular presidents, and great presidents. Jimmy Carter, who died last Sunday December 29 at the age of 100, was an unpopular one-term American president. A small-town p ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-02
I spend an unhealthy amount of time answering emails. So I breathed a sigh of relief when I was recently made aware of an application that could scan through thousands of my emails, devise a fairly ac ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-01
What can we learn from the latest research which shows a positive relationship between mental health and academic achievement? In view of the sharp increase in student suicide cases in recent years, t ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-01
Morris Chang is both proud and uneasy about Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the company he founded in 1987 that has become the undisputed world leader. To describe his feelings, he ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-01
The white carpet of a snow-covered field in western Russia is pockmarked by corpses of Russian and North Korean soldiers killed during ‘meat assaults’ on foot. The family of each dead Russian is promi ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-01
