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

I don’t know much about the gentleman, but having watched him interview Andre Agassi, one of my all-time favourite tennis players who brought so much colour and personality to the game including tie dyed cut-off jeans and a certain Rock’N Roll spirit to centre court, came the realisation that the interviewer was Anil Wadhwani, the 53 year old CEO of Prudential plc. What Prudential is doing for Hong Kong and Asia and the generations to come- read on to understand the insurance

In its own weird and controversial way, the HarbourFest event held in Hong Kong in 2003 was far more entertaining and intriguing than what it set out to be- and I was there for the first briefing session. That was enough. When it comes to entertainment in Hong Kong, one cannot help thinking back to that time and the ambitious event to attract international tourists back to Hong Kong after the crippling SARS crisis. “WE’RE GOING BACK IN TIME, MARTY! “Guided” by the Hong Kong g