Someone advised me to bring some snacks on my flight to Toronto last week. “Come on, I'm taking Cathay Pacific, not Hong Kong Express,” I replied, dismissing his friendly reminder. I was terribly wron ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-17
... gest economy. And the nation is already the world’s No.1 in terms of GDP based on purchasing power parity (PPP). China’s nominal GDP is likely to surpass that of the US within 7 to 10 years. But its p ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-17
... on and Jimmy Carter, that long-term US interests would be most threatened by a “grand coalition” of China and Russia “united not by ideology but by complimentary grievances”. On the contrary, China an ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-16
... ed during my current trip to the city. Arriving in the place recently, I found myself in the pre-spring season with the snow starting to melt and a heavy wind blowing. I was able to recognize the surr ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-16
... t run. In my opinion, the main hurdles in promoting electric commercial vehicles in Hong Kong are not only the lack of capital within the local transport industry, but also, perhaps more crucially, a ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-15
... s are not my brothers!” he added The term he used, which is commonly translated in China as “slackers”, can be directly translated as people who drift along aimlessly or waste time. Three JD employees ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-15
... economic mystery. Is it really a mystery, though? Consider the table below, which shows GDP growth since the 1980s for the larger economies, the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), and the “Nex ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-12
... It’s not my thing,” Trump said. Assange gave a thumbs up in handcuffs as he was taken from a police station to a London court, where he pronounced himself not guilty of failing to surrender in 2012. ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-12
... tears to my eyes,” Cordova added. The existence of black holes was first predicted in 1916. Most galaxies are thought to have a supermassive black hole at their center. Ring of light The fact that bl ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-11
... (AI). In my career in big data, I realized there are four major ways that AI touches our lives: search process, recommendation engine, credit system and collaborative filtering. Some big companies in ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-10
... regarding my ‘firing.’ I assure you that this is not the case, and in fact was told weeks ago by the administration that transitions in leadership should be expected across the Department of Homeland ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-09
... rence. In my view, this kind of ignorance or skepticism toward vaccination is even more troublesome than the diseases which are containable through vaccination such as measles, seasonal influenza, per ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-08
... “I named my children after all my siblings that died,” Samuel Dusengiyumva told the emotional crowd, before praising the actions of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a Tutsi-led rebel movement led b ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-08
... na’s economy. While the US economy and equities have been boosted by tax cuts, China's economy has kept moderating. By the fourth quarter of last year, economic data became rather weak and fear of a h ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-03
