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![]() Neil NewmanSouth China Morning Post |
MR PINKQuentin Tarantino’s classic movie Reservoir Dogs opens with an entertaining exchange among a group of criminals about paying a tip to the...
NEED ANY LOBSTERS, MATE?Comparing Taiwan and Australia isn’t something I’ve seen done often. But I have noticed that there are a few similarities,...
THE ONE WITH THE WAGGLY TAILIt is that time of year when Hongkongers can get back at us gweilos for making them suffer through months of tedious...
POWER UP2021 has been exciting and full of surprises, and it’s only the start of February! A huge dump of snow in Spain led to a severe shortage of...
ONE CAREFUL OWNERLiving in Hong Kong, you’d be forgiven if respect for the environment is not the first thing that comes to mind when you’re asked...
FOR ALL THE TEA IN CHINAWhen Britain first started to trade with China, neither nation knew much about the other. Britain had just started to import...
THE DEVIL WILL FIND WORK FOR IDLE HANDS TO DOA friend of mine said to me on Monday: “you won’t be short of something to write this week!”. Not...
SAKANA, SAKANA, SAKANA!When I first went to Japan as an “alien” in the 1980s, my British palate was confronted with all manner of strange food –...
I GUESS YOU GUYS AREN’T READY FOR THAT YET, BUT YOUR KIDS ARE GONNA LOVE ITToday is my parents’ 63rd wedding anniversary, and if all goes to plan,...
WITH A PINK HOTEL, A BOTIQUE AND A SWINGIN’ HOTSPOTIt would appear the mutant virus successfully became the Grinch that tried to take away our...
BATTERY WARSInspired by his grandfather’s passion for airborne personal transport, Akio Toyoda, Toyota’s current president, has not just inherited...
AS IF LIFE WASN’T TOUGH ENOUGHImagine running a portfolio of southeast Asian banking stocks in Hong Kong and suddenly being unable to have HSBC in...
Hong Kong has for decades served as one of Asia’s most important financial hubs, and its English-language media was a bastion of free speech.The...
SIMPLY REDIt is less than a decade since China was last buying up vast amounts of copper in the global metals market. In February 2011, the price...
VOTEBUSTERS!If you thought we would be done with the US presidential election on November 3 and you could move on from the circus, think again. It is...
UNDER THE SHADE OF A COOLIBAH TREEI have been a frequent visitor to Australia, taking in and enjoying the local culture. Even back home, I enjoy the...
SOCIABLE HONG KONGIn Hong Kong we are fortunate to have plenty of young talent attracted by top universities in the region, and a hard-working,...
LET IT RIPLast weekend was beautiful. It was great to be out in the open air, with some of the best weather Hong Kong can offer. On the flip side, it...
HERE COMES THE FILTHI think most people would agree with the observation that the air quality in Hong Kong this year seems to have improved. Certainly...
One of the many reasons that Hong Kong is attractive to big international businesses – and Tokyo isn’t – is that you can easily fire people...
WACKY RACESIf politics wasn’t racy enough right now with a space race, an arms race and a tech race taking place between the Chinese and the...
When I heard from a friend of mine who is relocating his hedge fund that office rents in Central Hong Kong were down 25-30 per cent this year, and...
TIME TO MOVE ONIt has been a bad year so far for the Americans in Hong Kong – the city’s importance as a financial centre for US firms and global...
THE FINAL FRONTIERI was eight when the Americans landed on the moon. Like many little boys, I had a fascination with space and astronomy, and was...
FROM LITTLE ACORNSFour years ago, right after the Brexit referendum in Britain, I was shocked and dismayed to learn that one of Britain’s top...
HAVING A WINE AND A MOANI was having a quiet Sunday afternoon refreshment with a neighbour of mine who is starting to enjoy his retirement and we got...
BREAKING UP THE BANKHolding HSBC shares has been a disaster for investors over the past year. Its share price has nearly halved as the bank was...
BREAKING UP THE BANKHolding HSBC shares has been a disaster for investors over the past year. Its share price has nearly halved as the bank was...
Hong Kong is notorious for its dependence on imports. Consumer goods, food, electricity and, crucially, water. In fact, our reliance on drinking water...
These are strange times we live in here in Hong Kong, and the challenges just keep mounting. Our lives have been turned upside down by protests, the...