Extreme weather has become more frequent in recent years, even developed metropolises cannot escape the devastation. In the past few months, London, Zhengzhou inChina, and New York have all experience ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-14
Swaths of Europe are flooded, and the American west is engulfed in heat, fire, and drought. Wealthy countries are experiencing what many developing countries have always known: a changing climate can ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-13
As this year’s brutal summer showed, it has become increasingly easy to track the consequences of climate change. Just as extreme weather is claiming more and more human lives, more and more species a ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-13
... of the lowest in the world at 10.2 per cent. Sophia Chan, Secretary for Food and Health, last week put the target at 7.8 per cent in 2025, with a long-term goal of creating a “smoke-free” Hong Kong. ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-13
忠意保險與Teladoc Health合作，透過忠意保險的一站式應用程式「Generali We Care」， ...全文
... seemingly well-educated people act so irrationally, against their own interest, against science, and against the lessons of history? Part of the answer is that the country, for all of its wealth, is n ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-08
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were a horrific shock. Images of trapped victims leaping from the Twin Towers are indelible, and the intrusive security measures introduced in the wake of ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-08
... r cent between HK$20,000 and HK$50,000 and 18 per cent less than HK$20,000. Richard Leung, an emigration consultant, said that the low bar set by Britain and Canada had opened the door to families tha ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-07
... been allowed to enjoy exponential growth in the past. More than ever, experience, on the ground presence and active management will be needed to navigate China’s changing regulatory landscape. Invest ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-07
With the United States’ disastrous exit from Afghanistan, the parallels between the 2020s and the 1970s just keep growing. Has a sustained period of high inflation just become much more likely? Until ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-06
... adults between 20 to 44 years of age increased by 64% from 17 per 100,000 American adults in 1993 to 28 per 100,000 in 2015. Taiwan also reported similar statistics. In 2015, the proportion of young p ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-06
... w treaty. We may be witnessing an equivalent moment in our relationship to the environment. Last month, a diverse independent panel of international lawyers issued the draft text defining the crime of ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-03
... lation do we need? To answer that question, we first must appreciate the transformational nature of social media, which is arguably comparable to that of the printing press in fifteenth-century Europe ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-02
... dose). However less than 30 percent of people over 70 has been inoculated. Still high vaccination rate does not guarantee easing of travel curbs.Many, myself included, would have hoped the border wou ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-01
Four years ago, we argued that the rise of electric vehicles (EVs) would upend both the auto industry and the oil market. As with the rapid displacement of horses by motor vehicles in the United State ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-01
... overnment welfare and entitlement programs have a crowd ...全文
... ok. While we shouldn’t completely dismiss these signals, we are not overly concerned, for three reasons: First of all, real-time economic data need to be treated with caution. For one, these indicator ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-31
We live in an age of systemic gridlock, policy chaos, and sudden-shock failures. How is it possible that Afghan security forces – built and trained by the United States military at a cost of $83 billi ...More
EJ Insight2021-08-31
