This year marks the halfway point for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the ambitious set of global targets introduced by the United Nations in 2015. These 17 goals, devised to ad ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-14
... Deux Garçon（兩男）即是一例。「兩男」老闆是R. Reid和JC Slowik，確是兩男子，二人曾 ...全文
The cost of feeding the world’s human population is taking a significant toll on our biodiversity. The world’s population reached eight billion in 2022 and it is expected to be between ten to twelve b ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
... o, but no one should be complacent: the world’s food woes are far from over. The risk of additional price volatility remains high. With Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annulment of the Black Sea Gr ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
In conversations with friends and colleagues I often hear the question, “What do the youth make of this?”, or “What, really, do the youth want?” As I have argued elsewhere in my assessment of events r ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
2022 was a year of inflation. Most central banks were behind the curve and had to tighten aggressively to catch up. In 2023, I think focus has been more centered around the economic cycle. Inflation i ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
Since the release of ChatGPT to the public late last year, generative AI has seen an exponential rate of adoption. The major breakthrough behind these models is the transformer architecture (first dev ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-10
Last week the U.S. Department of Justice charged Donald Trump with attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. It was the second Federal indictment against him in two months. ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-10
For nearly half a century, global warming has been worsening. After the hottest year on record last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned lately that global temperatures could soar ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-10
Last week the U.S. Department of Justice charged Donald ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2023年08月10日
I wrapped up my happy three-week trip in Toronto with a fond memory of delicious Asian meals, long overdue gatherings and autumn-like nice weather – and returned to Hong Kong. Still jetlagged, I was a ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-09
I had the pleasure of watching ‘Barbie’ - by myself - earlier this week. Truth be told, I went in with relatively low expectations. I have a general aversion to movie hypes and hyped-up movies, and ha ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-09
The global economy is addicted to the relentless – and unsustainable – extraction of natural resources. Yet despite our complete dependence on nature, its contribution – for example, the water used to ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-09
Now in its 11th year, the annual Esri Young Scholars Award is a competition for worldwide tertiary students to pursue projects of their own choice using geographic information systems (GIS) with sugge ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-09
Who should pay for Ukraine’s postwar reconstruction? Shortly after Russia’s invasion, my co-authors and I estimated that it would cost roughly €200-500 billion ($220-550 billion) to rebuild the countr ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-08
A lifeless blob, a landmass of shredded tissues held together by a briny coagulant, a wreck crawling with mealworms. A whale carcass was found earlier this week in Hong Kong’s eastern waters. Expert ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-08
On July 1, Chief Executive John Lee, marking the 26th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region after the return of Hong Kong to China by Britain, asserted that ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-07
