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An ethnic minority in Hong Kong remembers…
Once upon a barren rock this island became my home Many flew into the city over Kowloon Tong Entered some early version of an...
Hans Ebert
3 hours ago3 min read
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HAS THE RUT BEEN ALLOWED TO SET IN, HONG KONG?
Music can give any city an identity. Think of what the Beatles and the Mersey sound brought to Liverpool and what Flower Power brought to...
Hans Ebert
6 days ago2 min read
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MARKETING NOT PIGEONHOLING
When what you really want to hear is The Silence, and if still watching television these days, it’s documentaries and cooking programmes-...
Hans Ebert
Apr 73 min read
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Sam Hui and The Hong Kong Happiness Index.
He’s still the Big Daddy of what started out as Canto Rock, and the ONLY Hong Kong born musician to give something original to Cantonese...
Hans Ebert
Apr 21 min read
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Ka Ying Rising and the Resistance To Hype
Perhaps it was reading the Comments section of one of those online posts on horse racing, where readers were challenging the still...
Hans Ebert
Apr 12 min read
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THE STAR FERRY AND THE HONG KONG HAPPINESS INDEX
If never having taken the Star Ferry, you really should- something that is so much part of Hong Kong and has been featured in movies and...
Hans Ebert
Mar 311 min read
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HIGH ON THE HONG KONG HAPPINESS INDEX: HAINAN CHICKEN RICE AT THE GRAND HYATT CAFE
There are some people I know who must have complete silence when having their Hainan Chicken Rice and which MUST be from the Grand Cafe...
Hans Ebert
Mar 261 min read
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BRITNEY WONG AND THE HONG KONG HAPPINESS INDEX
While having dinner with friends yesterday who are in Hong Kong for Art Basel- visitors from overseas, one-time Hong Kong residents, and...
Hans Ebert
Mar 262 min read
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HONG KONG RACING AND WHY IT CANNOT BE YESTERDAY ONCE MORE…
Being a Hong Kong Belonger whose home has been this city for some sixty plus years, it’s always been about trying to understand what...
Hans Ebert
Mar 243 min read
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THE BEAUTY OF DESTINY AND HORSE RACING IN HONG KONG.
For whatever reason or reasons, these days I see horse racing in Hong Kong as a movie- something like a cross between the very underrated...
Hans Ebert
Mar 203 min read
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RE-DISCOVERING HAPPINESS
Sometimes, something happens and you decide to write and someone else inside of you is writing a letter to yourself and you pass it along...
Hans Ebert
Mar 172 min read
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WHERE IS HORSE RACING HEADING (AND WITH WHAT AUDIENCE COMING ALONG FOR THE RIDE)?
While skimming through news in the horse racing world and seeing all kinds of everything that might amount to nothing as a changing of...
Hans Ebert
Mar 172 min read
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HOW WHAT I NAMED CANTO POP BECAME CANTO PAP.
Being the person who created the term or genre or whatever it is and called it Canto Pop, I wish I hadn’t, because it stalled many moons...
Hans Ebert
Feb 274 min read
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WHO SENT IN THE CLOWNS?
Why the world is so full of anger was a question my girlfriend asked me over the weekend. Being a lawyer and not a simpleton, it was a...
Hans Ebert
Feb 253 min read
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HORSE RACING IN HONG KONG AND THE GAME CHANGER.
It was the day after Hong Kong’s equine superstar Romantic Warrior had been downed by Japan’s exceptional galloper Forever Young in...
Hans Ebert
Feb 244 min read
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Why the magic of music needs a new delivery system.
Sounds too corny to be true, but during those days when feeling weary and small, something seemingly insignificant to do with music can...
Hans Ebert
Feb 104 min read
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There needs to be new magicians for music to be magical.
Maybe we thought we were better than we actually were, some got ahead of themselves and with too many playing roles, but working in the...
Hans Ebert
Feb 88 min read
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THE RETURN OF BIFF THE BULLY
Nobody’s Right when there is no Left, which means that being right has either been obliterated or is in the comments section about...
Hans Ebert
Feb 72 min read
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THE TAO OF HANS
Someone messaged me last night to say that only one person had won HK$193 million in the Hong Kong lottery known as the Mark Six. The...
Hans Ebert
Feb 35 min read
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THE MARKETING CHUTZPAH OF “A COMPLETE UNKNOWN”
What is “creative” is usually something very subjective. Or can this “creativity” be sold through clever and strategic marketing as it’s...
Hans Ebert
Jan 313 min read
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