Judging by the reporting from the Communist Party of China’s 20th National Congress, Xi Jinping, newly anointed to an unprecedented third term as president, is tightening his political grip and streng ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-25
... taken on by American households and repackaged into securities that were bought by global financial institutions. The recession and capital losses following the late-1990s technology and telecommunic ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-25
... y plagued by sluggish economic sentiments. Noteworthy is the government’s intention to facilitate cross-border data transfer between the Mainland and Hong Kong. Since the dawn of the digital era, the ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-25
... increased by more than 200 million since 2019. Key global objectives like the second United Nations Sustainable Development Goal – which commits countries to end hunger by 2030, and to improve nutriti ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-24
... extended by Britain to holders of BNO passports. Last Tuesday, the UK government opened the door even wider, when Jesse Norman, Minister of State at the Foreign Office, said that a law would come int ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-24
... ientists, by the end of April this year, there were more than 5,000 satellites in orbit around Earth, six times the number in 2007. Among them, LEO satellites accounted for 86%. The number of satellit ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-24
... view thereby discards the fundamental importance of a k ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年10月22日
... ndex rose by 8.2% in September – it is the country’s highest rate since 1991. This has put serious pressure on Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government, which has made fighting inflation and ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-21
... proposed by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) by year-end. After which they are expected to become mandatory for listed firms on the local bourse. The intentions behind these re ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-21
The recent further relaxation of Covid-based restrictions by the current, belatedly enlightened Hong Kong administration came as welcome news to a society that has felt increasingly incarcerated by th ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-20
While the end of the COVID-19 pandemic may be “in sight,” as the World Health Organization recently declared, the world faces numerous emerging health risks. Some are exacerbated by climate change, ot ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-20
... view thereby discards the fundamental importance of a key element – the people. We care for the people of a nation, not only because they are vital to the survival and success of the state, but also b ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-20
Driven by the zero-Covid policy, slowing economic growth and fear of a cross-Straits war, the migration of Taiwan firms to Southeast Asia is accelerating. They are being encouraged by their government ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-20
Driven by the zero-Covid policy, slowing economic growt ...全文
今日信報時事評論Mark O’Neill2022年10月20日
... What was by far less missable – and substantially more dazzling – was Kissinger’s wisdom. The book was a thorough, riveting volume that comprised six profiles – historically detailed, well-researched ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-19
There are indeed quite a lot to handle for a visitor to Hong Kong under the pandemic. As opposed to the travel relaxation by many other countries, we still have the 0+3 self-quarantine, PCR test, mand ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-19
... icy tool. By making polluters pay the full cost of their emissions, the thinking goes, governments can leave it to the market to decide which technologies will win out. But this is easier said than do ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-19
... igh-risk. By providing funding, guarantees, or both, such institutions can de-risk projects and crowd in private investment. They can also bring partners into specific deals through syndications. For ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-19
... the 1930s by German composer Carl Orff. For his text, Orff turned to a collection of 24 medieval songs and poems discovered in 1803 at a Bavarian monastery. In these profane lyrics of minstrels and mo ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-18
