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THE RETURN OF AGENTS OF HAPPY CHANGE…

We’re so busy with everything else, most of which is not even worth bothering about, that wherever we are, I really don’t think we spend enough quality time thinking about children. Like how they think or how to help them grow up being the best they could be. This is probably because we’re adults, and if not young parents, children are not a priority- which might also have something to do about how jaundiced too many are in how they view the future. Looking at the almost slip

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Can music perhaps help Hong Kong redefine itself?

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

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IN THE COURT OF THE CRACKED WORLD OF CONSTANT CHANGE

Though certainly remaining something of an enigma, horse racing and those who still sail in her always being interesting enough for me and who learned much about the pastime when writing as the Racingbitch. Though running the regional offices of Universal Music and then EMI Music with my friend Norman Cheng, below, who was a horse owner and knew many of the players in Europe, being Racingbitch offered me an inside track into viewing this world of horse racing, which I certain

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Going down an exciting new rabbit hole with Hong Kong and Hong Kong racing…

The thought bubble started to gain traction with the rather puzzling oddity that preceded the hugely successful Hong Kong Sevens weekend called “Racing with Rugby” where a square peg was seemingly tried to be forced into a round hole. The HKJC’s Champions Day on Sunday at Shatin will prove that when horse racing doesn’t try to be what it never can be, it succeeds on its own terms, whereas strange as it may seem to some, all this could actually offer food for thought to those

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Stupidity has no boundaries, Winfried. Let’s not be naive.

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

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THE GARDEN OF HOPE AND HAPPINESS: BECAUSE IT’S TIME.

Firstly, and just to get boring and repetitive, around a couple of decades ago, the then-government’s almost token gweilo mouthpiece-Duncan Pescod- announced to Hong Kong, and I guess, the world, how there would be a “worldwide search” for the “right person” to head up what was something called CreateHK. The search for this very special someone to lead the much anticipated launch of CreateHK through the marshes ended up being someone named Jerry something or another from, I t

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Why Hong Kong racing needs the Brazilian magic man…

I know I’m not alone when I say that at least some of the magic needed to reignite interest and a level of excitement and derring do returned to an averageWednesday nightHappy Valley race meeting last meeting with the reappearance in Hong Kong of the ever popular Brazilian rider Joao Moreira. Here for three months as stable jockey for Caspar Fownes, the Magic Man always brings with him a certain je ne sais quoi to horse racing that few have seen- and FEEL- from anyone else an

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