MTR Corporation announced on Thursday that it will not raise fares throughout the year and will cut rents by half for February and March for small and medium tenants in all its stations and shopping m ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-20
Face masks are in extremely short supply these days, and even if you have the money to buy them, they are difficult to obtain. However, we feel compelled to stress that despite the shortage, wearing m ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-20
The coronavirus outbreak has created conflicts between central and local government officials in China. One major point of contention is the pace of resumption of work at businesses that were ordered ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-20
Scientists in China who studied nose and throat swabs from 18 patients infected with the new coronavirus say it behaves much more like influenza than other closely related viruses, suggesting it may s ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-20
The government is preparing to bring home Hong Kong residents quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has been forced to dock in Yokohama, Japan for several weeks to prevent the spr ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-19
Hong Kong health authorities are trying to trace the friends of a Filipino domestic helper who tested positive for the novel coronavirus in order to determine if they have symptoms of the disease. The ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-19
The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Patrick Nip Tak-kuen told a radio program last Saturday that the administration is in a worse position in fighting the raging novel coronavirus ep ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-18
Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing is donating 250,000 surgical masks for the underprivileged amid the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak in the city. The Li Ka Shing Foundation, a charitable organi ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-18
Hong Kong authorities said on Monday that three more people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) infection, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the city to 60. Among the new ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-18
In my 2010 book, Crisis Economics, I defined financial crises not as the “black swan” events that Nassim Nicholas Taleb described in his eponymous bestseller, but as “white swans.” According to Taleb, ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-18
