The virtual banking race has been heating up in Asia in recent years. While virtual bank operations in Hong Kong commenced only two years ago, this year the Bank of Thailand plans to implement regulat ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-27
Pastoral communities live off the land. In northern Kenya, where I grew up, we raised local breeds of cattle, which grazed in the dry rangelands. But our land is more than the basis of our livelihoods ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-26
The next eight years are critical – the world needs to decarbonise rapidly and that can’t happen without Asia. Four of the world’s top ten greenhouse gas emitters are in Asia, with China and India in ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-26
The past few years we’ve seen welcome initiatives by the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) to promote more gender diverse boards in Hong Kong — acknowledging the importance of diversity in makin ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-26
... ifts to what we construe as 'useful' or 'informative' d ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年05月26日
If content is fire, social media is gasoline. That is what happens with the Teletubbies incident that got half of Hong Kong people talking about since Monday. It is not a happy ending, but still, the ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-25
“Finlandization” describes the commitment to strategic neutrality that a small country might make, in order to avoid provoking a much larger and more powerful neighbor. The term is derived from Finlan ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-25
... where All at Once，英文名似是天塌下來的透不過氣。中文名《奇異女俠玩救宇宙》，楊紫瓊的宇宙肯定 ...全文
Global food prices are soaring. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Price Index – which covers a basket of basic food commodities (cereals, meat, dairy, vegetable oils, and sug ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-24
The time for philosophy – is now. The past few decades have seen drastic shifts to what we construe as ‘useful’ or ‘informative’ degrees in higher education – and beyond. From the fixation upon comput ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-24
In reading the titular statement, one may – most natura ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年05月24日
... ce said that 74% of surveyed British businesses reported a large or serious impact on business operations and cash flows from Covid outbreaks and restrictions. “Businesses are reporting an impacted ab ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-23
“The dominant concern in the market is that the economy could buckle when the central banks have no firepower – because their guns are trained on reducing inflation instead. In other words, tight mone ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-23
In reading the titular statement, one may – most naturally – think this is a self-evident statement. Surely, if one opposes imperialism – defined here as the subjugation of a party of independent sove ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-23
The government has planned to allocate nearly HK$300 million for the development of Art Tech. How can the funding effectively improve the level of local culture and arts, and further consolidate Hong ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-23
Risk assets have gotten off to a historically poor start in 2022, a year in which seemingly diversified portfolios have been generating undiversified returns. Stocks and government bonds are down by d ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-20
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed what many had feared but were reluctant to admit: the continued failure to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions means that glob ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-20
At the start of the year, I expressed concerns about the outlook for financial markets, owing to all the considerable uncertainties that I could identify, and to the many other potential risks that we ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-19
