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Making Hong Kong Come Alive Again!
All the singing and dancing and jive talking aside, along with the 700,000 free travel tickets for tourists to Hong Kong, might make...

Hans Ebert
Feb 8, 20233 min read


Who exactly is “Hello Hong Kong” aimed at and what’s it kinda trying to say?
When all else fails, grab a couple of ageing local celebrities and have them dance all around the city with ordinary Hong Kong Chinese...

Hans Ebert
Feb 6, 20234 min read


It’s Casibah’s world and we just live in it
I might do the polite thing and listen to what people have to say, but this doesn’t mean that I trust nor believe them. One only believes...

Hans Ebert
Feb 6, 20233 min read


Hello Hong Kong and a begging bowl
What can one say about the new multi million dollar government driven song and dance “Hello Hong Kong” promotion to attract tourists from...

Hans Ebert
Feb 3, 20232 min read


The Kah appeal and Hong Kong’s Golden Team
Yes, once again, the quite wonderful Jamie Kah won over the usually fickle and often kinda weird Hong Kong racing fans with their...

Hans Ebert
Jan 30, 20232 min read


Funding indifferently and investing honestly in Hong Kong’s creative future...
Maybe it’s been the lack of mentors, or maybe there’s always been a resistance to change because of too many looking out for numero uno....

Hans Ebert
Jan 30, 20235 min read


Netflix, chopsticks, feng shui, cheongsams, mahjong and Hong Kong...
Hong Kong is looking at making a comeback. Or so we read. It’s waiting to tell the world that it’s back- changed, but that it’s back. But...

Hans Ebert
Jan 28, 20232 min read


Reality Checks And Crosses
Nothing many of us are doing these days makes any sense plus there’s no real purpose to much that we’re spending time doing- time that...

Hans Ebert
Jan 27, 20234 min read


Why Hong Kong needs its own Neverland
There’s no reason why certain things happen. They just do. It’s like how, once in a while, and when needing something to uplift and help...

Hans Ebert
Jan 24, 20234 min read


Hong Kong and its empty creative rice bowl
It’s a tough thing to say about one’s home, but today’s Hong Kong is an old person’s city suffering from shrinkage, which, I guess, is...

Hans Ebert
Jan 22, 20234 min read


The need for creativity amongst the clutter.
Only talented people can help to attract other talented and creative people. If believing that governments are going to help attract new...

Hans Ebert
Jan 21, 20232 min read


Can Lyle Hewitson be the next Douglas Whyte- and more?
The above is a question asked by some and answered in the affirmative by most Hong Kong racing fans. Like the one-time “Durban Demon”,...

Hans Ebert
Jan 20, 20233 min read


Horse racing in Hong Kong and winning the war against Pandemic Fatigue
As with any business, a vital part to the success of the horse racing industry is commitment. It’s another of those intangible things...

Hans Ebert
Jan 13, 20235 min read


What if...Taylor Swift or Elon Musk ran horse racing???
When in advertising and the ad agency I was with having the McDonald’s business, it was never ever about sitting on our McLaurels and...

Hans Ebert
Jan 7, 20233 min read


John Didham Speaks!!!
There’s no other way to say it: John Didham is a special person, even an enigma- quiet, unassuming, perceptive and confident enough in...

Hans Ebert
Jan 5, 20233 min read


The Joy Luck Club Of Horse Racing
It was not so much of a “Lucky Start” for Patrick Kwok Ho-chuen, the junior Sasa member, and owner of idiosyncratic galloper Beauty...

Hans Ebert
Jan 4, 20232 min read


THE NEW GIRL POWER OF HORSE RACING!!!
It was a pretty insignificant mid-week race meeting at Mount Barker during the tail end of 2022, but the results of the eight races might...

Hans Ebert
Jan 4, 20235 min read


Keeping it bubbly...
It would be too easy to turn this into some kinda “review” about some kinda nothing. But maybe with 2022 hurtling towards 2023 and...

Hans Ebert
Dec 30, 20222 min read


Karis Teetan: Keeping it real. And being happy.
He’d been sidelined for months with a health tissue during which time he lost out on the wins of his regular rides including Romantic...

Hans Ebert
Dec 29, 20222 min read


Horse racing and its stampede of elephants in the room.
These are interesting and important times for horse racing as, in case no one has noticed, there’s a changing of the guard taking place,...

Hans Ebert
Dec 17, 20224 min read
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