The new normal has accelerated an abrupt shift to flexible work arrangements, with most if not all employees having experienced remote or hybrid way of working in the past year. However, some might ha ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-27
The Covid-19 pandemic and National Security Law (NSL) have cast a large shadow over the Hong Kong Book Fair which opened on July 14 and runs until Tuesday. It was the first to be held for two years. T ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-19
Any hope that Donald Trump’s messy departure from the White House would at least restore a modicum of calm to the world must now be discounted. Already, there is a dangerous new international threat: ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-30
Caged homes. A term employed to denote “spaces” that co ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年06月19日
Caged homes. A term employed to denote “spaces” that could range anywhere from 100 sq. ft. apartments with sprawling sewage pipes and crisscrossed overhead wires and dripping roofs and broken pipes… t ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-18
In Hong Kong, money can’t always buy happiness. That was the latest observation by the city’s top fund manager Cheah Cheng Hye, who attempted to explain the irony of why one of the world’s richest cit ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-16
Geographic information system (GIS) is often used in the area of transportation, urban planning, environmental protection law enforcement, natural disaster relief, and more. However, in addition to th ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-15
Where will you be in 10 years time? Hong Kong? London? The Greater Bay Area? Or Mars? Although Mars seems so far away from us, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said that his starships would be landing on Mars ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-07
In the last lesson of the smart city Master’s degree program at the University of Hong Kong in early March, students formed groups and presented different smart cities around the world that Hong Kong ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-31
After the most severe global recession in decades, private and official forecasters are increasingly optimistic that world output will recover strongly this year and thereafter. But the coming expansi ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-26
“If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it” said Shakespeare’s Count Orsino in Twelfth Night. Sadly, the Hong Kong government is tone deaf. The music of which Shakespeare wrote was l ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-25
Nearly 1.5 million people in Hong Kong, or about 21 per ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightA Hong Konger2021年05月11日
“Hong Kong is a city rife with inequalities. Rampant resource inegalitarianism, abhorrently exborbitant housing prices, and – above all – an administration and ruling class that is deeply out of touch ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-10
In Hong Kong, workers have grown accustomed to having the flexibility to work remotely as a result of the pandemic, which saw the biggest remote working experiment in history. Remote working arrangeme ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-06
Asian real estate remains an attractive asset class although COVID-19 has changed the face of the sector. Pre-COVID-19, Asia’s real estate sector was largely focused on retail, residential, hospitalit ...More
EJ Insight2021-04-01
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s hasty revocation of a hastily announced Easter lockdown was surprising, even shocking, given her ever-calm demeanor. Even more extraordinary was the apology she issue ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-31
Apparently full details of the new law governing elections to the legislative council cannot be given yet but we can all relax because we have been reassured that the re-arrangement will enlarge the s ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-15
I was recently approached about setting up my own “special purpose acquisition company” (SPAC), which would allow me to secure financial commitments from investors on the expectation that I will event ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-09
The Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars this month, marks a new leap toward answering fundamental questions about our solar system, including where else we might find DNA. The rover will roam the ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-01
In Hong Kong, the two Leungs earned a monthly income of more than HK$100,000 in managerial positions. Now they earn a tenth of that in their new life in Warrington, in the north of England, where they ...More
EJ Insight2021-02-18
