Every city needs music to help it grow branches and keep evolving. Music, especially ‘live’ music in the right setting, gives those who live in these cities feel alive and energised and inspired and which then becomes a chain reaction of all kinds of emotions that creates a product and brand personality- advertising talk for standing out from the crowd. It’s something I feel whenever in New York or London or Copenhagen, definitely Paris, and anywhere in Latin America. The fir

No one had to even mention the appearance of actor and Eighties heartthrob Jason Donovan, but having a staunch Hong Kong Rugby Sevens supporter and friend from New Zealand take a swig of his beer and belch out over lunch,“Whatever this thing that the Hong Kong Jockey Club is talking about better not muck up my Sevens weekend. It’s been doing bloody well on its own!” This brought up the question of sponsorship of the Sevens, and whether the architect of the recent success of t

Once upon a wonton, the television weather man in Hong Kong was an animated character named Freddy who would look up at the sky and either smile, put on his shades and happily walk off frame whistling or when the weather was getting cooler, his teeth would chatter and he would say, “It’s faaaaaaaaaaliiiiiiiiing!”. If Freddy was still around today, he could be used to use this line to describe the standards of everything in Hong Kong, especially creativity though it must be sa