Despite all the goodies the financial secretary offered in his latest budget, including the HK$10,000 cash handout, the response from the public was far from cheerful. Even before the novel coronaviru ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
Bearing the theme "Riding Out the Crisis Together", the recent budget unveiled by Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po was, on the whole, a step in the right direction. However, there are two things th ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
The novel coronavirus appears more contagious than SARS. In just three weeks, the number of people with Covid-19 aboard the cruise ship Diamond Princess soared to more than 600 as of late February. Bu ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
The only thing that's absolutely certain about the coronavirus outbreak is that it will end. Less certain is the political fallout, but it’s highly likely to be bigger than anything seen after SARS. T ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
A woman who traveled abroad and subsequently tested positive for the novel coronavirus after her return to Hong Kong was found to have visited multiple places in the city before she was admitted to a ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
我們還有10年時間以實現聯合國可持續發展目標（SDG），但我們離成功還相去甚遠。婦女仍在很大程度上被排除在決策 ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2020年03月06日
If you had any plans of visiting Japan this spring to enjoy the cherry blossoms, you may be forced to rethink your options. And the same could even apply to the Olympic Games in the summer. Travel to ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
Four charter flights have evacuated 469 Hong Kong residents from central China's Hubei province, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, in a two-day rescue operation that ended on ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
Starbucks said on Thursday that it expects China sales in stores open for at least a year to fall by about 50 percent in the quarter ending March due to the coronavirus outbreak. The company said the ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
The death toll from coronavirus in the United States rose to 12 on Thursday with the latest fatality recorded in King County, Washington, and 53 new cases broke out across the country, striking for th ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
As Hong Kong grapples with an economic downturn following months of social unrest and the ongoing coronavirus crisis, MTR Corporation announced recently that it will not raise fares for passengers usi ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05
越秀房產信託基金(00405) 公佈 - 有關COVID-19的最新消息(267KB, pdf) ...全文
Apart from China, which was the epicenter of the outbreak, South Korea, Japan, Iran and Italy have also been badly hit by the novel coronavirus, with the infection cases and death tolls climbing. And ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05
A pet dog in Hong Kong has repeatedly tested positive for low level of Covid-19, authorities said on Wednesday, throwing up the possibility that the city may have witnessed the first known case of a h ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus in the state, which now has 53 confirmed cases, Reuters reports. The move came after health officials a ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05
武漢肺炎（2019冠狀病毒疾病，COVID-19）的肆虐、在全球的迅速擴散，暴露「一黨領導」體制、公共衞生管理 ...全文
One of the sectors hit hard by the novel coronavirus outbreak is the catering industry. In order to help the industry weather the Covid-19 epidemic, the SAR administration has diverted a huge sum of m ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-04
Money can’t buy you love – not even popularity – it seems. And so Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po has yielded to popular demand by unveiling a HK$10,000 cash handout for all adult Hong Kong perman ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-04
