... emissions. It was not to be. Governments made some progress on methane emissions, deforestation, and the transition to electric vehicles. But other necessary action – above all, much more ambitious n ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-26
We need an exit strategy. Several key propositions undergirding this statement – and, indeed, largely informed by recent events. The first, is the hyper-contagiousness of the Omicron (both B.1 and B.2 ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-25
... oming year. The overall salary increase prediction is from 1.7% to 3%. According to JobsDB HK and Links International, another consulting firm, as companies rapidly move towards digitalisation, some i ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-24
A Prime Minister knee-deep in scandal. A few weeks afte ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年01月21日
I suspect my spouse owns cryptocurrency. What does this mean for my divorce? Cryptocurrency is a fast-growing industry and one which is still poorly understood by many people. It also comes in many fo ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-20
A Prime Minister knee-deep in scandal. A few weeks after I’d penned a review of Owen Jones’ “The Establishment” for this very paper, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson finds himself in hot water – f ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-20
As of early 2022, the fate of US President Joe Biden’s ambitious plan for delivering an equitable and sustainable economic recovery is uncertain. Failure to pass the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better ( ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-19
... privilege. 壟斷皆由政府起。想當年，佛利民喜歡引用發牌制度下的電視霸權做例子。今時今日的香港呢？傳 ...全文
China has an ageing population problem. This propositio ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年01月19日
China has an ageing population problem. This proposition requires some unpacking – more precisely, there are two sub-propositions to consider: The first, is that China’s population is “ageing” – measu ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-18
... oundaries”. During the Zero-Hour Sessions, an event convened by Lombard Odier during the COP26 climate summit, Rockström stressed that our planet – “a complex, adaptive, self-regulating biophysical sy ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-18
Last month, I identified what I saw as the big issues of 2022, noting that I could not recall a time when there were so many sources of uncertainty, both known and unknown. The main issue was inflatio ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-17
The world’s population exceeded 7.9 billion by the end of last year, and is expected to reach 10 billion by 2050, according to the United Nations (UN). Some experts previously pointed out that the glo ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-17
In December, the people of New Caledonia in the South Pacific voted in a third referendum not to become an independent state but remain part of France. The news was greeted with jubilation in Paris – ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-17
Former US President Donald Trump’s isolationist and protectionist “America First” policies seriously damaged America and its global leadership role. Raising tariffs on imports to the United States – i ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-14
... s of Kabul. Seeing all this, friends asked me: “Whatever happened to soft power?” One answer is that it can be found in other recent events, such as President Joe Biden’s virtual Summit for Democracy, ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-14
Song Gengyi, a journalism teacher in Shanghai, was fired last month for doing her job. She had encouraged her students to verify official accounts of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, the orgy of mass murder ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-13
Michael Leung and his family were fast asleep in the house they had recently bought in the Midlands of England. He heard glass crashing on the ground floor and went to investigate. When he reached the ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-13
... of England. He heard glass crashing on the ground floor ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2022年01月13日
