Why Hong Kong Racing must change the narrative...
In a recent Talking Points column in the racing page of the SCMP, racing reporter Sam Agars wrote, “There is the thinking that...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 7, 20224 min read
Can Hong Kong make a spectacular comeback?
Maybe we were too arrogant. Maybe we should have seen it coming. Then again, we had seen everything the world and nature threw our way...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 6, 20223 min read
Taking those Feel Good Moments to the max...
We’re all looking for someone or something to lean on- not in any clingy manner, but there to be supportive, especially if family. If...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 4, 20224 min read
Straighten up and fly right...
There’s a scene from “The Aviator” where Leonardo DeCaprio playing billionaire Howard Hughes has let everything get the better of him and...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 4, 20223 min read
Making the people of Hong Kong feel like champions...
In today’s Talking Points column in the racing page of the SCMP, racing writer Sam Agars writes, “There is the thinking that Hongkongers...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 3, 20223 min read
Racing and the importance of empathy
What has been noticeably “missing in action” these days in Hong Kong, where the government has been busy with their various and confusing...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 2, 20224 min read
Rediscovering Brother James
He was frightening, dangerously different and brilliant all at the same time. It’s why he was The Godfather Of Soul and Soul Brother...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 2, 20221 min read
“NO LOCKDOWN DECISION... YET?"
Having been a journalist and knowing that sub-editors write the headlines, it still didn’t help my mood to see the words “NO LOCKDOWN...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 2, 20221 min read
“All The Happy Dirty Secrets” 1
Your venom is pretty and poisonous I can taste it on your lips How did you ever get past me? How exactly did you give me the slip? How...
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Hans Ebert
Feb 24, 20223 min read
The Point is...
It’s always been important, but when social media started to knock and intrude into lives which morphed into fake news and insta...
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Hans Ebert
Feb 20, 20223 min read
Hong Kong is making a song and dance about...covid???
Nothing against the Baker’s dozen called Mirror, but how exactly this singing and dancing boyband is going to work as “anti-pandemic...
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Hans Ebert
Feb 19, 20223 min read
The battered Hong Kong brand: The task of putting Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Anyone anywhere in the world who knows anything about marketing and advertising would know that the “easiest” and most obvious “strategy”...
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Hans Ebert
Feb 12, 20224 min read
Hong Kong, you had me at Hello: A love story
I remember watching television with my then-wife Trina on the day of The Handover. This was on June 30, 1997 when the official transfer...
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Hans Ebert
Feb 10, 20225 min read
Horse racing and today's changing media landscape...
There might have been one of those rare- and also pretty empty- Sunday afternoon race meetings at Happy Valley in Hong Kong, but this was...
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Hans Ebert
Jan 31, 20225 min read
Why upload and download but keep going nowhere?
It’s been questioned and criticised and analysed for around three years. Now, during these Groundhog days of social distancing and...
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Hans Ebert
Jan 28, 20223 min read
Creativity can be contagious...in a good way.
The world is desperately in need of whatever you might want to call it- a reboot, a makeover, a Renaissance period, newness, chutney, a...
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Hans Ebert
Jan 23, 20222 min read
THE MYSTERIOUS LIFE AND TIMES OF ROBERT AND SUKI HO
While the casinos in Macau crash and burn with their share prices worth billions going up in flames, thoughts turn to Robert Ho, number...
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Hans Ebert
Jan 21, 20223 min read
Growing Pains
Adulthood can often be a tough place to live. It’s where you find yourself confronting many truths about yourself and perhaps for the...
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Hans Ebert
Jan 12, 202211 min read
Lessons learned… and how jealousy must be earned…
Spent something like two weeks on a Lloyd Trestino liner called Asia, below, with my parents and playing shuffleboard with a couple of...
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Hans Ebert
Jan 8, 20222 min read
Rest In Power, Sir
If things were already starting to change, Sir leaving us has changed everything going on about and around me. It’s put many things into...
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