Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget, which crashed the pound and ended her tenure after just 44 days, has quickly become a cautionary tale for policymakers around the worl ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-22
Looking toward the balance of 2022, one thing is clear: we are not out of the woods yet. Both the global economy and global investment markets continue to be waylaid by familiar risks. That does not m ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-22
The 22nd World Cup is under way, but who at the beginning of this century would have thought it might be hosted by tiny Qatar? Yet here we are, and the only surprise is that it doesn’t feel all that s ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-22
Though the cryptocurrency exchange FTX has filed for bankruptcy recently, the potential of virtual assets (VA) is self-evident as mentioned in the Hong Kong government’s policy statement at the end of ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-21
... of what London called “scheduling issues”, but Beijing may have cancelled it. It was an inauspicious beginning to the Sunak premiership. During his flight to Bali, Sunak told reporters that China pos ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-21
By one of those fortuitous coincidences, 2022 is not only the year in which by virtue of the death of Queen Elizabeth II I became King’s Counsel instead of Queen’s Counsel, it also happens to be the t ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-21
... 寫了文章Notes on Nationalism並於同年發表。本文會將奧威爾所指的民族主義加上引號,因他筆下的 ...全文
... 圓帽(Tudor Bonnet)上的流蘇由右撥左,正式成為了商學博士(大專界傳統上將都鐸圓帽預留給博士生)。 ...全文
If there is one issue that has taken center stage at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), it is money. Delegates, climate activists, and the rapidly increasing number of priva ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-18
Decades of progress on reducing food insecurity are being reversed. The number of undernourished people is rising again, and in Africa alone, 310 million people are projected to be chronically hungry ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-18
... distribution and housing preferences」,我們利用本地樓市交易數據進行計量分 ...全文
There is a bitter irony to the fact that what could wel ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年11月18日
... (International Diabetes Federation)數據,中國糖尿病者數目為全球第二高,在2 ...全文
... n native tongue is not always understood by those we need to communicate with. When we set out to learn a new language, the only way we become proficient is to converse, ideally in person, and even mo ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-17
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has thrown the European Union into yet another full-blown economic and political crisis. But while the war is the immediate cause of soaring gas, fuel, and electricity pri ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-17
Following New Zealand, Hong Kong is moving to ban the sale of tobacco to those born after a certain date and take a big step toward a “smoke-free Hong Kong”. Lo Chung-mau, Secretary for Health, said l ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-17
Following New Zealand, Hong Kong is moving to ban the s ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2022年11月17日
草間彌生之前,有小野洋子。 像我這個年代的人,接觸小野洋子(Yoko Ono)的名字比草間彌生(Yayoi K ...全文
Stop the nonsense, Hong Kong people! There is no need to dissolve the Hong Kong rugby team, which lost all its games in home field but won a championship in Korea. Nor is it necessary to stop eating t ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-16