Well, it was fun while it lasted. Two decades of easy money with low to zero interests, further juiced by successive rounds of ever larger stimulus spending, turned prudent investment principle on its ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-16
Ballet galas are rare in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Ballet used to host an international stars gala every spring. The Hong Kong Arts Festival last organised a ballet gala programme in 2018 featuring the Bol ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-16
One of the first English sentences we learned from Primary One was “I go to school by bus”. Despite being Chinglish, it was a memory embedded in our minds for decades although the phrase has become an ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-15
The run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) – on which nearly half of all venture-backed tech start-ups in the United States depend – is in part a rerun of a familiar story, but it’s more than that. Once aga ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-15
... news for Hong Kong I&T, although a little late. Recently, I reported that the Biodiversity Geographic Information System (BGIS), which I had been waiting for nearly 30 years, would finally be avai ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-14
When the United States and its G7 partners imposed sanctions on Russia’s central bank and barred Western financial institutions from doing business with Russian counterparties, commentators warned of ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-14
In selecting their party’s nominee for the U.S. Presidential Election in November next year, Republicans must choose between former President Donald Trump and a man whose policy platform is very close ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-14
In recent times, we have witnessed lively discussions on how diversity can impact the success of an organisation. It is now well known that representation across different demographics brings a wide r ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-13
As a maturing, cost-effective technology, electric vehicles (EVs) are a key part of the solution to planet-heating emissions. When paired with clean electricity, they offer a route to climate-neutral ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-13
... cult environment, governments worldwide must urgently recommit to the SDGs, including their underlying promise to leave no one behind. The challenge is formidable. Consider SDG1, which aims to elimina ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-13
In January, I expressed optimism that a recession across the Western world (and beyond) was becoming less likely, and high-frequency indicators since then have indeed supported a benign outlook. This ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-10
A spectre haunts the state of international geopolitics. It is a spectre that has nought to do with military confrontations, nuclear weapons, or the most advanced of gadgets that states are resorting ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-10
While ASEAN countries are benefiting from rapid economic development, they are also facing problems in housing, environment, and law and order issues caused by increasing urban population. They hope t ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-10
We live in an era of polarisation. From radical identity politics, to racist bigotry directed towards immigrants; from chauvinistic militarism and nationalism, to unapologetic and unnuanced embracing ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-10
Recent months may well be remembered as the moment when predictive artificial intelligence went mainstream. While prediction algorithms have been in use for decades, the release of applications such a ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-09
Could Britain rejoin the European Union? People are now posing this unthinkable question after several polls found a majority of British people saying that the Brexit vote in 2016 was a mistake and th ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-09
Could Britain rejoin the European Union? People are now ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2023年03月09日
