The dust has now settled after the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, but there are still many unanswered questions about how to finance emissions reductions and adaptation. Th ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-12
In this timeless classic that doesn’t age (just like the diva behind it), Mariah Carey belts, “I don't want a lot for Christmas… There is just one thing I need”. For thousands, if not millions of Hong ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-12
Central banks’ unwavering determination to increase interest rates is truly remarkable. In the name of taming inflation, they have deliberately set themselves on a path to cause a recession – or to wo ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-12
The year 2023 is likely to have its share of economic turbulence, but from an asset price perspective it should be materially better than 2022. Events over the last 12 months have heightened our convi ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-09
In his narration for the Netflix series Our Great National Parks, former US President Barack Obama describes a sloth as harboring “an entire micro-kingdom” in his fur. “Researching him will help fight ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-09
When I heard that the government had not extended Timothy Owen KC’s visa, Elvis Presley’s version of “Are you lonesome tonight?” began to course through my brain. The saga of the English silk’s applic ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-09
The Earth’s biodiversity and the services provided by healthy ecosystems are under massive pressure from climate change and the challenge of supporting eight billion people in a sustainable way. Key e ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-08
Count on the International Federation of Association Football, better known as FIFA, to come up with a fatuous slogan for the World Cup in Qatar: “Football Unites the World.” An official promotional v ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-08
The recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh offered encouraging but insufficient signs of an emerging political consensus on the need for global solidarity in the fa ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-08
... ember 30, at the age of 96. Jiang was by all accounts a ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年12月08日
Former President Jiang Zemin passed away on November 30, at the age of 96. Jiang was by all accounts a remarkable figure. Born and raised in a revolutionary family, adopted by an uncle who died fighti ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-07
The world heaved a sigh of relief this month when the feared “red wave” of Republican victories in the US midterms failed to materialize. While the Republicans took the House of Representatives by a n ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-07
China, through brute force, high-tech surveillance and a rare willingness to temper its harsh zero Covid policy, has successfully snuffed out its worst protests since the Tiananmen Square demonstratio ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-06
Swiftly rising interest rates have punctured the cryptocurrency bubble, exposing fragility, bad governance, and even fraud in many corners, most notably at the crypto exchange FTX. And FTX’s spectacul ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-06
Could the United States and China go to war over Taiwan? China regards the island 90 miles (145 kilometers) off its coast as a renegade province, and President Xi Jinping raised the issue at the recen ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-06
The world economy is lurching toward an unprecedented confluence of economic, financial, and debt crises, following the explosion of deficits, borrowing, and leverage in recent decades. In the private ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-05
Infrastructure investment will drive Hong Kong’s economic recovery, the projects will soar to HK$300 billion per year in the next few years,. However, a study by Oxford Global Projects found that mega ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-05
Mary Chan described how buying a house in the UK had driven her to distraction. “The agent did not turn up for our appointment. The solicitor replied late and incompletely to my questions.” She twice ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-05
