... ar’s invitation to flatter him in exchange for material fruits. The conceited Lear opts thus to transfer all his wealth to the duplicitous Regan and Goneril, who leave their father destitute as they r ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-18
She was born in North Point in 1950 to a family that had moved from the mainland to Hong Kong two years before. In 1974, she emigrated to Northern Ireland and became the first ethnic Chinese elected t ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-18
20th November was the 25th Geographic Information System Day (GIS Day). The aim of the event was to recognise the outstanding performance of the practitioners and to share the best practice of GIS wit ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-16
... e ideas that are diametrically opposed to Confucian values have been quietly disseminated in the form of orthodox Confucian ideas by labelling them as such. On 15 December 2024, Confucius Studies – on ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-16
Seven years ago Yen Po-Wen (顏博文) was chief executive officer of United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), Taiwan’s second largest maker of semi-conductors, a global company headquartered in Hsinchu, ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-15
Indonesia is now moving its capital to Nusantara, East Kalimantan province, 1,236 kilometers from the current capital Jakarta (about the distance between Hong Kong and Shanghai). The relocation projec ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-09
“He saved the 30 million people of northeast China. Disregarding his own safety, he handed over the evidence (to the Lytton Commission).” This is Wang Jianxue (王建學'), a professor at the Communist Part ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-08
Hong Kong is a key beneficiary of mainland China’s high savings rate. Indeed, a spillover of capital into Hong Kong from the mainland’s overflowing reservoir of household savings could provide much ne ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-03
The Covid pandemic may seem like an event of the past, but the recent Gold Award of the Territory-wide Sewage Surveillance Programme in the "Performance Improvement and Operational Solutions" category ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-02
The most repeated line within our 30 minutes of interviewing Jim Rogers, known as the King of Commodities and global media darling, was, ‘You should be worried”. Don't blame the 82-year-old Rogers. He ...More
EJ Insight2024-11-28
I have always been fascinated by the phrase “character building”. We invoke the phrase to refer to all sorts of trials and tribulations – a deeply irksome and truculent acquaintance or colleague, a ma ...More
EJ Insight2024-11-28
Just a little over a month ago, the leaders of 56 heads of government in the Commonwealth came to the public conclusion that “the time has come” for a proper conversation about the reparations for the ...More
EJ Insight2024-11-26
It was the tenth lecture of my twelve-lecture series introducing my MA students to the theory and practice of politics. On this gloomy, somewhat dour November day, I opened my lecture with two particu ...More
EJ Insight2024-11-24
... e has threatened to impose tariffs of 60 per cent on imports from China. Beijing will certainly retaliate with measures of its own. TSMC has no alternative but to choose the U.S. In the third quarter, ...More
EJ Insight2024-11-24
