... expected to become the World Bank president, and Punit Renjen, former Deloitte global CEO and SAP chairman-elect. In addition, Indians also hold senior positions in well-known business schools, such ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-04
In recent years, Hong Kong has emphasised the importance of learning STEM, and there is nothing more valuable than listening to top scientists from around the world and Professor Xiang Zhang, the Pres ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-04
The first call by President Xi Jinping to his Ukrainian counterpart since the start of the Russian invasion has been welcomed by all sides as an important diplomatic step forward. But it will not brin ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-04
Bad news is tax season is coming. Worse, the Hong Kong SAR government expects a five per cent drop in tax revenue in the financial year ended 31 March 2023, raising fear that we might need to pay more ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-03
Judging by the growing number of companies vowing to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions to zero these days, it may seem like the corporate world is finally taking the climate crisis seriously. Acco ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-03
There is something conspicuously perverse about the state of domestic political discourse in Hong Kong. There is an odious, growing tendency to brand all things “Western” as evil, and to celebrate all ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-03
... ommitment to countering China’s geopolitical ambitions, he has largely overlooked its growing presence in his own neighborhood. This is puzzling and alarming, not least because of South America’s cruc ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-02
The hour-long phone call between Xi Jinping and Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s wartime president, followed by Beijing’s appointment of a senior diplomat to be dispatched to Ukraine and other countries ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-02
... in place, to structurally increase the share of consumption in Chinese GDP. China’s economic divergence from slowing growth and recession in the developed world bodes well for China’s corporate profit ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-02
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank held their Spring Meetings in Washington this month amid growing fears of a prolonged worldwide recession and following a series of reports predictin ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-28
It would be reasonable to think real estate investors might welcome the anticipation of financial markets that the Fed will pivot to cut rates later this year. Rising interest rates have been a leadin ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-28
... hich aims to help low-income countries restructure their sovereign debts, was supposed to prevent this crisis from spiraling out of control. But progress so far has been slow and uneven. Many of the w ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-28
