With a new byline covering the New Year’s Day race meeting at Shatin and writing about “a slow start to the day” before a “festive atmosphere ultimately drew almost 50,000 spectators including nearly 10,000 from the mainland”, it was hardly any surprise for Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, the Hong Kong Jockey Club CEO and official cheerleader to describe the day as “terrific”. Written by someone named Mike Chan, we particularly liked reading this little morsel: “Meanwhile, a re

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

The reason why the standards of creativity have dropped is largely because those involved in the creative process that results in the creative product don’t know that standards have dropped. Somewhere along the way, the savvy and maverick thinking of “Mad Man” Don Draper, where many of his ideas and presentation skills were built around the innate ability to know how to read the room, and intuitively know where the pieces fit, most of which have disappeared from what used to