Kishore Mahbubani – who published Has China Won? in 2020 – spoke on YouTube in a recent interview that he agreed with Niall Ferguson that the United States could well be the new Soviet Union. Interestingly, Mahbubani referred to Ferguson as a conservative American thinker, when of course the latter was knighted by King Charles…
I left off in my last blog with a note that I would visit the Specialist Clinic at QEH, which I did; and I am grateful that a few friends had taken notice and asked me separately what transpired. I thank all these kind souls and let me make a brief report here. QEH L…
Since uploading my last blog, the Paris Summer Olympics has taken the world stage and will remain so for another ten days. Hong Kong has caught the Olympics bug and people gathered at shopping malls to watch the Games even before Vivian Kong hit gold and became the darling of Hong Kong, China and the…
That is the name of a movie filmed mostly in Hong Kong during the unrest in 2019 to 2020 by British director Malcolm Clarke, a two-time Oscar-winning director for best documentary short subject in 1989 and 2013. Clarke was interviewed by Pearl Lam who, in turn, is a Hong Kong born gallerist, patron and curator,…
Hong Kong celebrated the 27th Anniversary of the Establishment of the SAR with the usual fanfare in searing heat as our Chief Executive called on everyone in Hong Kong to expect a better tomorrow – or something to that effect – ending with the good news that China has agreed to give us another pair…
Summer Solstice has come and gone, as Hong Kong recorded one that hot in more than four decades. The heat tends to make people sluggish and lazy, but we have been rather active on the festive and social circuits in June, beginning with a weekend trip to Kuala Lumpur to attend a Masonic event –…
Once again, I was caught up by inertia and it won’t be for the last time – I am pretty sure – for I began writing a blog around mid-May which was about the need to listen to what the body was telling me rather than what the doctors said, meaning that I would often…
We learnt from his wife that Anthony passed away peacefully on 4 May 2024 before 6 pm at the Hong Kong Sanatorium. We had left the hospital just after 4 pm, having learnt at lunch from our friend – another Anthony – that his conditions had deteriorated during the last week after an operation which…
I began planning to write a blog after I received a few posts from a trusted friend based on Tik Tok. There were three in particular that I found worth mentioning. The first concerned Republican Senator Michael McCaul’s questionable activities. This is the guy who wrote in March 2024 the Bill to ban Tik Tok…
I left off in the last blog with a note that we were off to Taiwan. We did indeed spend altogether eight days there, mostly eating and drinking, indulging ourselves with Michelin starred or recommended eateries, primarily Japanese inspired. They were cheap by Hong Kong standard, but were probably not generally affordable by the locals….
