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WHERE’S THE MUSIC GONE, HONG KONG?
It really doesn’t take an Einstein to understand this, but during these days of “influencers” and influenzas and clodhoppers and KOLs and where so much of everything has been really really really dumbed down and me really really really being a music guy who has helped run the regional offices of Universal Music and EMI Music and worked with artists as diverse as Norah Jones and Gorillaz to Faye Wong and Jackie Cheung, and since the majority of the tourists to Hong Kong are to

Hans Ebert
Jan 43 min read


HAS THE HKJC BECOME TOO MUCH OF A ONE MAN BAND?
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

Hans Ebert
Jan 35 min read


ISA GUHA, MBE AND ABOUT TAKING HER LEAD
She’s extremely knowledgeable, not only about cricket, but how her role in the game can help give back to others and which shapes and reshapes the world of cricket. Isa Guha is a game changer and she does this with humility, with no need for showboating and the work of her charity takeherlead.org shows how inclusive and inspiring cricket can be. This has to do with this remarkable person’s integrity and poise, confidence and sense of humour of which she has plenty, something

Hans Ebert
Jan 32 min read
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