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1 week ago | 
ejinsight.com | Mark O'Neill |Kevin Ng
Britain’s Finance Minister Rachel Reeves has just set out her budget plans for the next four years. “The renewal of Britain must be felt everywhere,” she said. Her Labour government has been in power for just one year, since a landslide general election victory, when the public expressed their great dismay at the economic mismanagement of the previous Conservative government.
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2 weeks ago | 
ejinsight.com | Mark O'Neill |Kevin Ng
When President Donald Trump announced a 46 per cent tariff on imports from Vietnam on April 2, “Liberation Day”, the country came up with a novel response – giving him a gold course. On May 21, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Trump’s son Eric attended a ceremony to start work on the Trump International Hung Yen, an area of 1,000 hectares with a total investment of over US$1.5 billion.
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2 weeks ago | 
ejinsight.com | Mark O'Neill |Kevin Ng
America is at war. It is a weaponless war on three fronts - a war with itself, a trade war with the world, and a Cold War with China. There will be no winners. The outcomes can only be measured by which side loses the most. The US-led West won the last Cold War with the Russian-led former Soviet Union.
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2 weeks ago | 
ejinsight.com | Mark O'Neill |Kevin Ng
Visitors to the city should be given the Hong Kong Heritage Map, with more than 300 historical buildings to visit – enough to stay for several weeks!This is the work of Nick Tsao, founder of Papertecture and the city’s most prominent modern papercutter. In 2023, he gave up a lucrative career in architecture to devote himself to this ancient craft.
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3 weeks ago | 
ejinsight.com | Mark O'Neill |Kevin Ng |Ben Kwok
After two months of the tariff trade war, the U.S. dollar has weakened, resulting in a situation where countries are withdrawing investments from the once attractive U.S. market. The trillion-dollar deposits that have been rapidly accumulating in Hong Kong's banking system over the years will need to find new destinations. Louis-Vincent Gave, founding partner and CEO of the macroeconomic research firm Gavekal, expects that Hong Kong stocks will benefit, especially high-dividend stocks.
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3 weeks ago | 
ejinsight.com | Mark O'Neill |Kevin Ng
International criminal syndicates, armed and richly funded, are winning the war against human trafficking, with 50 million people enslaved and 6.3 million in forced prostitution around the world.. That is the sombre conclusion of Matthew Friedman, an American who has devoted his career to the fight against trafficking, with the U.S. government, the United Nations and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).
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3 weeks ago | 
ejinsight.com | Mark O'Neill |Kevin Ng
Hong Kong Ballet’s final programme this season was the premiere of a new production of the classic “Giselle” at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. This new production of “Giselle” is staged by the artistic director Septime Webre and Charla Genn. The choreographic text is mostly faithful to Petipa’s productions of this classic for the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg in the late 19th century. However it is a pity that the mime scene of Giselle’s mother in Act 1 foretelling her death has been excised.
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1 month ago | 
ejinsight.com | Mark O'Neill |Kevin Ng
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China this year will fall for a second year because of worsening ties with the United States and Europe and increasingly difficult conditions for foreign companies. In 2024, FDI fell 27.1 per cent in yuan terms, the sharpest decline since the 2008 global financial crisis. In the first quarter of 2025, it fell 10.8 per cent from the same period last year to US$36.9 billion.
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1 month ago | 
ejinsight.com | Mark O'Neill |Kevin Ng
Britain shrinks to mid-size nationIn the summer of 1925, London hosted the British Empire Exhibition at the newly built Wembley Stadium, with space for 125,000 people. It later became the national football stadium. At a cost of 12 million pounds, it was the largest exhibition ever staged in the world and attracted 27 million visitors. Of the 58 territories in the Empire, 56 took part. Britain had the largest Empire on earth.
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1 month ago | 
ejinsight.com | Mark O'Neill |Kevin Ng
Hong Kong people who emigrated to Britain with a BNO passport are alarmed by the new immigration policy outlined on Monday by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Most alarming is a new requirement that migrants must live and work for 10 years in the UK before they can apply for citizenship, double the five that was the requirement before May 12.
