Foreign businesses in China are counting the rising cost of the worst Covid outbreak and are asking the government for an exit strategy, as they lose production and expatriate staff. Japanese bank Nom ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-11
My new English electronic book Smart City 4.0 demonstrates to the younger generation and startups how spatial data and geographic information system (GIS) revolutionises our lives through sharing of r ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-11
Russia’s shocking invasion of Ukraine has awakened the European Union to the urgent need to reduce its reliance on Russian fossil fuels. But, as the EU attempts to escape the Russian energy yoke, it m ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-11
There are few immutable economic laws, but to my mind there’s at least one: Nothing is free. Everything has a price, even though the cost might not be clear at the time of purchase. Such was the case ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-08
The Greater Bay Area (GBA) is made up of nine cities along the Guangdong Pearl River Delta, as well as Hong Kong and Macau. The region has established itself as a node for technological development, i ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-08
... terrorist attacks, and few anticipated the 2008 financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, or Donald Trump’s election, which resulted in the United States turning toward protectionism and nationalism. E ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-08
... gas and water cannons to hold back Arab asylum seekers at the Hungarian border but welcoming Ukrainians with open arms amounts to racial bias, or even “white supremacy.” All human lives are equally p ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-08
... visions that marked a further deterioration in relation ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2022年04月08日
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine hijacked the 23rd China-European Union summit last Friday, exposing deep divisions that marked a further deterioration in relations. The first summit since Septemb ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-07
Food prices are surging to record highs in many countries, driven by factors including climate change, violent conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic, and supply-chain disruptions. This perfect storm has exp ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-07
Physical infrastructure has a critical role to play in supporting the post-pandemic recovery and in laying the longer-term foundations for green, resilient, and inclusive development. A growing body o ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-07
... use many watchers are worried about her retirement life after July. All told, the home grown first female Chief Executive would probably stay in Hong Kong – and if history provides any guidance, it is ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-06
Twenty-five years ago, at midnight on June 30, 1997, Britain handed over Hong Kong, its colony for 150 years, to China in return for a promise that the region would be given “a high degree of autonomy ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-06
Whether one likes it or not, there are different opinions about the direction in which Hong Kong is being driven. Though it may not have been to everyone’s liking, prior to Carrie Lam’s attempt to int ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-06
... lian population into submission – as he had previously done in Grozny and Aleppo. The tragic upshot is that Ukraine’s heroic resistance has been accompanied by increasing civilian suffering. Is there ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-06
The onslaught of the 5th wave of Covid-19 in Hong Kong has sparked a dramatic surge in the number of severe cases and isolation orders, overwhelming the healthcare system with hospitals running out of ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-04
As the global economic fallout from the current Western-led sanctions against Russia becomes clearer, are we watching a preview of what a trade and financial rupture with China might look like? Perhap ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-04
