To those who just woke up to the idea of having an international mahjong championship in Hong Kong and how mahjong could even be an Olympic sport, do please bear in mind, children, that we suggested this over two years ago and using the drawing star power of Actress and mahjong aficionado Julia Roberts…   ********************* A tad disconcerting to hear from a girl who decided to take up transcendental meditation and how her first hour of solace and deep diving into her inne

Of course, it was expected: The hoopla on Sunday at Shatin surrounding a couple of Hong Kong’s and the world’s best racehorses in the form of the absolute Kong from the Hong in Kai Ying Rising and the return of the amazing Romantic Warrior. Kai Ying Rising is in a different league and his amazing win brought back recent memories of Travis Head tearing apart whatever “Bazballs” England might have thrown his way in the first of five Ashes Test matches between the two countries.

The only person who I knew and could read the tea leaves and really understood the China market was my friend and client Daniel Ng, the former NASA engineer, someone with a PhD in engineering and somehow ended up opening the first McDonald’s in Hong Kong by owning the McDonald’s franchise in the city. Despite the naysayers who warned that Chinese people only ate rice and mentioned the Burger King losing its crown and relevance in Hong Kong, Daniel sailed past them guided by a