China is alarmed by the entry of North Korean troops into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but has little leverage over its leader Kim Jong-un. Ukraine has said Pyongyang has sent 12,000 soldiers ...

In her speech at the Esri Young Scholars Award Presentation Ceremony (“Esri Ceremony”) recently, the Permanent Secretary for Education, Michelle Li mentioned that the Government attaches great ...

One of my favourite poems of all time is Dylan Thomas’ “Do not go gentle into that good night.” Yet the reasons for my preference of it are perhaps more anodyne and peculiar than most – I ...

There is one election in the world that has the eyes of all trained on it. This election is neither – strictly speaking – a directly democratic one; nor is it one in which the vast majority of ...

For financial journalists of my generation, we used to feel the boom of Hong Kong as an international financial centre: big mergers, full-house restaurants in Central and shark fins lunch.

Just days remain before America’s most consequential presidential election in modern times. A jittery world knows the outcome will have far-reaching ramifications. It will either mean ...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is expecting a banner year in 2025, thanks to strong demand from AI clients and for its high-performance computing devices (HPCs) and the launch of its ...

Hong Kong is still enduring the heat during late October. Among us, the life of more than 200,000 residents living in subdivided units must be even more miserable. Under global warming, how to ...

剛發表的施政報告，放寬投資移民購買5000萬以上的物業，預期市場上對豪宅大單位的需求會大大增加。何文田屬於罕有傳統豪宅地段，新樓供應向 ...

My good friend, colleague, and collaborator Prof. Li Cheng recently took an interview with the Financial Times. In one of its hallmark “Lunch with the FT” series, journalist Edward White ...

I had the fortune of receiving an email, whose name shall not be specified. It was sent to me by a journal with a suspicious title and publisher, with three paragraphs of copious praise piled onto ...

In 2021, there was a wave of massive resignations in the United States. About 47.4 million people in the year voluntarily left their jobs for better work, an increase of more than 12% in ...