Over the last year, businesses have been tested like never before and the accompanying strain has been felt by employees in every sector across Hong Kong. Instead of slowing down, many businesses have ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-20
The COVID-19 pandemic has ruthlessly exposed the global food system’s deficiencies, and a massive escalating hunger crisis now looms. A quarter of humanity lacks secure access to food, with one in ten ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-20
As the world cast their eyes on the Tokyo Olympics, international investors turn to Japanese equities in the hunt for attractive opportunities brought by the country’s ongoing structural changes. As a ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-19
Hong Kong’s job market continues to recover, with the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropping by 0.5 percentage points to 5 percent for the period between May and July, according to the Census ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-19
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the end the Bretton Woods system, when US President Richard Nixon suspended the US dollar’s convertibility into gold and allowed it to float. We are also appro ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-19
... eathtaking. It is not a failure of Democrats or Republi ...全文
今日信報時事評論Jeffrey D. Sachs2021年08月19日
The magnitude of the United States’ failure in Afghanistan is breathtaking. It is not a failure of Democrats or Republicans, but an abiding failure of American political culture, reflected in US polic ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-18
... ncompetent. Ma Ka Kin was an unsophisticated, simple minded employee in a noodle shop, easily duped into unwittingly being made a party to illegal trafficking in dangerous drugs. Any lawyer with commo ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-17
Politics is by no means easy in the contemporary era. O ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightA Hongkonger2021年08月17日
When Lithuania allowed Taiwan to open an office in its capital using its own name this month, Beijing could have cut diplomatic relations with it for crossing this taboo red line. But it did not – ins ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-16
... humanity". The official IPCC statement declared that " ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年08月14日
Politics is by no means easy in the contemporary era. On one hand, politicians – especially in electoral or semi-democracies – must answer to the will and whims of their audience; they must entertain ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-13
With less than three months until the United Nations climate change summit (COP26) in Glasgow in November, formal and informal discussions and pre-negotiations are now in full swing. A new US administ ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-13
The UN Secretary-General termed it a “code red for humanity”. The official IPCC statement declared that “climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying.” Above all, evidence ranging from the fl ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-12
Institutional investors are increasingly embracing the effort to achieve net-zero greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. Some are already implementing portfolio measures and incorporating climate fac ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-10
... the region. It was only in December 2019 when news started emerging of a mysterious new virus that had first been detected in China. By June 2020, six months after the first case was detected in China ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-10
... ue to grow. But is monetary policy to blame for this problem, and is it really the right tool for redistributing income? Recently, a steady stream of commentaries has pointed to central-bank policy as ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-09
The world is facing two disasters that are making the COVID-19 crisis doubly worse than it ought to be. The first is the rise of the Delta variant, which is twice as contagious and 1.5-2 times deadlie ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-06
... collective. From the sociopolitical unrest and large-sc ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年08月06日
