It's official: the government has no idea what’s going on. This is precisely what Matthew Cheung, the Chief Secretary of Administration in Name Only (CSANO), told legislators this week when asked if h ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-15
US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday told Congress that negative interest rates aren’t appropriate for the US economy at a time when it is enjoying growth, a strong labor market and ste ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-14
Hong Kong saw more clashes on Wednesday as anti-government protesters paralyzed parts of the city for a third day, with some transport links, schools and many businesses closing after an escalation of ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-13
Tandem, the UK challenger bank co-founded by fintech veteran Ricky Knox, is gearing up to expand into Hong Kong before the end of the year, as part of its international growth plans. In an exclusive i ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-12
Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako rode through central Tokyo on Sunday in a motorcade to mark this year’s imperial succession as well-wishers waved national flags and held up mobile phones ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-11
Gunmen killed nine women and children in the bloodiest attack on Americans in Mexico for years, prompting US President Donald Trump to offer to help the neighboring country wipe out drug cartels belie ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-06
Arrangements have been completed for all of the 452 constituencies in the upcoming District Council election in relation to the order of appearance of candidates’ names on ballot papers and the alloca ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-30
British police found the bodies of 39 people inside a truck container believed to have come from Bulgaria at an industrial estate to the east of London on Wednesday, Reuters reports. The discovery was ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-23
On Wednesday, amid protests mounted by pan-democratic lawmakers inside the Legislative Council chamber, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was unable to deliver her annual Policy Address in pe ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-17
China's intense anticorruption campaign has generated a flood of fugitives who have fled abroad and Beijing in turn has launched a global drive to seek their return, leading to the arrest of more than ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-15
An old friend yesterday invited me for dinner. “But let’s set the time first. You name the venue, I pay the bill,” he said in a text message. As it turned out, the difficult part was deciding where to ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-10
A reporter once asked our chief executive if she could sleep at night after causing Hong Kong’s worst-ever political crisis with her extradition bill. She didn’t answer. I wonder if she had a restful ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-10
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今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2019年10月10日
Tight security will be enforced when the Legislative Council resumes session on Oct. 16, as well as on the next day, according to Legco president Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen. Leung said the Legco Commissio ...More
EJ Insight2019-10-09
Despite Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s belated withdrawal of the extradition bill, the massive anti-government movement triggered by the legislative push has shown no signs of easing. Me ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-27
Social unrest is an end result of accumulated public grievances. And once the fire of public fury is ignited, it is not easy to stop it from spreading. Intriguingly, it appears Beijing leaders were ac ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-19
The world’s food supply is under threat. That was the stark warning contained in a recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate change and land. The signs are already ubiq ...More
EJ Insight2019-09-18
