2021 is the year of many anniversaries – 110 years after the Xinhai Revolution, 109 after the foundation of the Kuomintang and 100 after the foundation of the Communist Party. All three had two main o ...More
EJ Insight2020-12-28
Less than 12 months ago, private-sector leaders came together at the World Economic Forum with a sense of optimism and a series of new commitments to re-energize the fight against climate change. Ambi ...More
EJ Insight2020-12-24
If you, like me, would watch “Love Actually” over Christmas, you would find this movie opening particularly moving this year. “Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arri ...More
EJ Insight2020-12-23
It’s been a rather grim 2020. For the world, for China, and for Hong Kong in particular. Long-standing issues surrounding governance, socioeconomic inequalities, and the city’s uneasy relationship wit ...More
EJ Insight2020-12-23
As someone who often writes about law and forgiveness, I have been receiving many queries lately. Should President-elect Joe Biden pardon President Donald Trump? Should pandemic-era debts be forgiven? ...More
EJ Insight2020-12-22
It hasn't been the best of years for Hong Kong. We've s ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2020年12月22日
2020 has been much maligned as the year we want to forget. The regrettable events of the year notwithstanding, the year deserves to be recognised for being the harbinger of change and the trigger for ...More
EJ Insight2020-12-16
The outbreak of Covid-19 has had a serious impact on many aspects of our life, including severely reducing charity fund-raising opportunities because of cancelled charity balls and campaigns. Many cha ...More
EJ Insight2020-12-16
While investors can approach 2021 with optimism that an effective Covid-19 vaccine will be available, the path of the economic recovery remains unclear. The global economy has recovered from the depth ...More
EJ Insight2020-12-15
Based on a forecast by the Census and Statistics Department, the over-85s group in Hong Kong would rise sharply 10 years later, and the rapid growth is expected to remain for 20 years. Similar to Hong ...More
EJ Insight2020-12-14
The benefits of corporate board gender diversity in supporting high-quality debate and decision-making are well-known. While we are still far from having truly gender-balanced board membership in the ...More
EJ Insight2020-12-11
At the United Nations General Assembly this September, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Given that China has been the planet’s single-larges ...More
EJ Insight2020-12-11
The world is not yet sufficiently alarmed by how much the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the global economy. We track the daily numbers of infections and casualties. But we are oblivious to the job los ...More
EJ Insight2020-12-10
內蒙古能建(01649) 根據收購守則規則3 . 7 刊發有關內蒙古能源建設投資股份有限公司潛在私有化的每月更 ...全文
This year, the Mainland government proposed constructing a large-scale New Infrastructure Plan to revive the economy. However, it seems that most women would not benefit from the scheme. The New Infra ...More
EJ Insight2020-12-09
A question we’re often asked is whether emerging market portfolios are effectively a bet on China and its more than 400 million middle-class consumers? To degrees it is, and for good reason. China gre ...More
EJ Insight2020-12-08
