This past week has been a rarity of sorts in Hong Kong – with the FinTech week, Financial Summit, a summit on the city’s relations with ASEAN coalescing around the same five days or so, and the Rugby ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-03
Forget Hong Kong as an international centre. Look at what they eat. That appears to be the hidden message of the United States consulate Gregory May, which showed he had bought the famous “two-entrée” ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-02
Pesticide residue can be found everywhere: in the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink. A growing body of evidence suggests that herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides cause appro ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-02
American voters seem poised to hand the Republican Party control of the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate as well, in November’s midterm elections. The same goes for many state races, ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-28
Kicking off the United Nations’ second annual Sustainable Development Goals Moment last month, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra Jonas emphasized the role of solidarity as a driver of change. ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-27
Judging by the reporting from the Communist Party of China’s 20th National Congress, Xi Jinping, newly anointed to an unprecedented third term as president, is tightening his political grip and streng ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-25
Between rising hunger and the prospect of still more supply shortages, dark clouds are hovering over the global food system. Not only has the war in Ukraine limited access to, and raised prices for, f ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-24
我是一名在護理界服務了很多年的護士，當2020年新冠肺炎威脅着人類的生命時，慶幸自己仍在醫院裏面工作，能夠為一 ...全文
While the end of the COVID-19 pandemic may be “in sight,” as the World Health Organization recently declared, the world faces numerous emerging health risks. Some are exacerbated by climate change, ot ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-20
今日香港，有不少作品、表演、節目，作者或主辦單位都會說「想香港人睇咗開心啲」──成為了文化工作者的一個主旋律之 ...全文
When I took my children to receive their polio vaccines a few years ago, I thought about how lucky we are to live in a place where we can access lifesaving interventions with such ease. We didn’t need ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-17
「躺平不可取，躺贏不可能！」《人民日報》評論早前連續3日表示，目前全球疫情仍在高位流行，病毒仍在不斷變異，「躺 ...全文
Although uncertainty prevails in today’s global energy market, one thing has become clear: Governments are reasserting their central role. The motive is pragmatic rather than ideological, and the deta ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-10
For a year now, I have argued that the increase in inflation would be persistent, that its causes include not only bad policies but also negative supply shocks, and that central banks’ attempt to figh ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-07
