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![]() Neil NewmanSouth China Morning Post |
I am in a holding pattern for a return to Hong Kong, spending time on an aeroplane but without an opportunity to land, so to speak. Even though...
Occasionally, I come across a design story which gets my attention and captures my imagination – typically something that either flies, floats, or...
Having lived in Asia for so long now that I’ve lost my right to vote in British elections, I can only gaze at the politics from afar. And recently,...
Sitting around a Sunday afternoon lunch table with a few cans of beer under the belt is a natural forum for entrepreneurs to air ideas of what we are...
This week has been tough. The news from pretty much everywhere has been awful and I don’t think I’ve ever received more messages in a week from...
Hong Kong’s government has been criticised for the uncompromising harshness of its efforts to track and try to eliminate Covid-19 infections – to...
SLEEPWALKThis will make you cringe.In 1985, I bought my first CD in London: The Collection, an album of Ultravox’s greatest hits. Although I did...
I SEE YOUI am sitting in a café in Nihombashi on the edge of the financial district close to the Bank of Japan, having just stepped out of the...
To buy or to rent? It’s a fundamental question we all ask when we consider how to put a roof over our heads. I went through this process 40 years...
Being locked up in government-mandated quarantine as part of international travel remains to me as hard to swallow as the pre-departure...
Han Solo stepped on a twig in the forest of Endor, alerting an Imperial scout trooper who promptly jumped on a Speeder bike, kicking off one of the...
There is a shortlist of things to consider when buying a modern electric car over a petrol or diesel, and for me they are:Not to look goofy....
I am a sixties child and have never been in the thick of any armed conflict. My parents were born in the 1930s and were caught up in World War II...
The editorial desk at This Week In Asia kindly thought of me when scouting for ideas for their forward-looking 2022 jamboree of predictions. I...
FINGER LICKIN’ GOODI dropped a line to a friend of mine, Takamoto-san, a delightful housewife living on the outskirts of Tokyo, who in her former...
GRAB A XXXX, THE PRIDE OF QUEENSLANDI must admit my eyeball rolling of 2021 has stopped and I am now starting to feel sorry for the Aussies, who...
Like most, I have a list of people I’ve been meaning to call. During the pandemic I noticed this list getting longer. And considering a phone has...
At the beginning of the pandemic, I vowed not to slide into couch-potato mode and crawl out of the television screen looking like Sadako from Ring...
The staff at JPMorgan were burying their heads in their hands all week as CEO Jamie Dimon opened his mouth to backtrack and apologise for his...
From a very young age, I have had a fascination with aircraft. And before my swerve into finance, after years spent gluing balsa wood planes...
I felt rather privileged to receive a note from the chairman and CEO of British Airways to tell me a historic event had occurred: the vast majority...
IS THAT CHEESE?I was listening to Britain’s Prince Charles being interviewed by the BBC ahead of the climate conference COP26 which begins on...
Among traders, there have through the decades been two bits of perennial advice, “sell in May and go away” after the bulk of the year’s returns...