Tourists or investors? It’s something of a chicken and egg question that seems to keep slipping through the Humpty Dumpty cracks when it comes to talking about the priorities in creating a financially secure and happy Hong Kong. Tourism numbers might look good, but where are most of the tourists from and do they have spending power? https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/article/66780/So-many-more-visit-but-spending-remains-weak Let me answer this: Whatever is said or w

When McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in Paterson Street in Hong Kong, my then girlfriend, who became my wife and I were there with a McConga line of people including Commercial Radio disc jockey Mike Souza along with the always attractive Rebecca Ng. Rebecca’s husband and co-owner of the franchise in Hong Kong, Daniel Ng, was busy mingling with guests and cutting various ribbons. Being Creative Director with McDonald’s advertising agency Glenn Graphic, which evolved in

When everything else fails, there’s always music, and to be specific, the music of the Beatles with detours into their solo work and everything that’s out there today on YouTube about how they created and produced what they did all those years ago and never ages. A few days ago, out popped a lovely new video for George’s song “Give Me Love” that’s gorgeous. Maybe it’s even Georgeous. It’s not one of my favourite songs by “Hari Georgeson”, but watching the effort that the team