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Jan 10, 2024 | 
ejinsight.com | Neville Sarony |Frank Ching |Ben Kwok |Kevin Ng
‘Virtue is the fount whence honour springs’(Marlowe)The New Year Honours List coupled with Boris Johnson and Liz Truss’s resignation honours Lists makes it timely to consider the British system of recognizing the contribution that individuals have made to the community. Many countries have comparable systems, though the British have protracted, at least in terminology, a scheme that owes its origins to service to the monarch and a chivalric code.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
ejinsight.com | Ben Kwok |Brian Wong |Winnie Tang |Neville Sarony
The first in-person China-EU summit for four years ended with no agreement and the two sides far apart over the EU’s record trade deficit and Beijing’s support of Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. In the summit, the top representatives of the European Union -- Charles Michel, President of the European Council, and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission -- met President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang, in two separate sessions.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
ejinsight.com | Neville Sarony |Ben Kwok |Brian Wong |Winnie Tang
The United Nations Organisation was established in the immediate aftermath of the 2nd World War and at the core of its objectives was the formation of a supranational body that would provide a forum for peaceful resolution of disputes between states.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
ejinsight.com | Chris Bataille |Neville Sarony |Winnie Tang |Ben Kwok
Knowledge of the basic chemical process to make iron is older than the periodic table: iron ore + coal = iron + carbon dioxide. That last part – CO2 – has put the iron and steel industry under the spotlight for its contribution to climate change. Steel (an iron-carbon alloy) alone accounts for some 8% of annual global CO2 emissions, and well over 10% if one includes the industry’s emissions from electricity generation and coal mining.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
ejinsight.com | Neville Sarony |Winnie Tang |Ben Kwok
Spare a thought for McDonald’s shareholders who may have wondered how its business is doing in China. The world’s No.1 burger shop paid US$1.8 billion to raise its stake in its China joint venture to 48 per cent from 20 per cent earlier this week, days after Chinese President Xi Jinping met United States President Joe Biden at the APEC meeting.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
ejinsight.com | Kate Hampton |Neville Sarony |Winnie Tang |Ben Kwok
In London on November 20, the United Kingdom will host the Global Food Security Summit and launch a new strategy for international development. Despite pressing crises like the conflict in Gaza, we must stay focused on other parts of the global system, where ongoing crises of hunger, malnutrition, and food insecurity demand an urgent response. Faced with immense suffering around the world, we need a UK government that is willing and able to offer solutions.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
ejinsight.com | Neville Sarony |Winnie Tang |Ben Kwok
With clockwork inevitability, the proposal by a number of US lawmakers to introduce the Hong Kong Sanctions Act provoked a locust swarm of vitriolic protests. The idea of sanctioning 49 Hong Kong officials for their various roles in effecting the provisions of the National Security Law provoked a storm of banal criticisms ranging from describing it as “gangster behaviour” and intimidation of HKSAR judicial personnel to likening the Congressmen and Senators to Triads.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
ejinsight.com | Neville Sarony |Brian Wong |Ben Kwok
No matter how the mayhem in Gaza is viewed politically, unless we are to abandon the principle of civilised behaviour that is the essence of rule based society, let alone common decency, it is impossible to stand silently by whilst children, non-combatant women and the elderly are being slaughtered.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
ejinsight.com | Neville Sarony |Ben Kwok |Winnie Tang |Brian Wong
On 5 September 2022 armed police boxed in Chris Kaba, an unarmed man driving his Audi in South London, and then killed him with one shot through his car windscreen. Other than these cursory details, there is little information in the public arena of this incident.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
ejinsight.com | Winnie Tang |Neville Sarony |Ben Kwok |Brian Wong
A recent study from OpenAI and the University of Pennsylvania found that OpenAI's latest language-processing model GPT-4 would affect mostly educated white-collars with an annual earning up to US$80,000 of the American workforce, including financial analysts, accountants, and writers. This echoes the predictions of the Future of Jobs Report 2023 released by the World Economic Forum that as many as 83 million jobs would be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI).
