THE CURRENT SRI LANKA narrative goes like this. The ruling party made a series of bad decisions about fertilizer, petrol, and a “debt trap” (yes, from a certain country with a red flag), and, as a result, they have been chased out of office by angry citizens.
New leaders will have to be found.
Many…
Image shows Hu Fa-kuang as a teenager, when he decided to become an engineer, a 1950s world map, and a ship from the Blue Funnel Line, which would take him across the world.
Hu Fa-kuang, who passed away recently, literally changed the face of Hong Kong. He was "the elevator king" of a city which…
MOVE OVER, London and New York. The little community of Hong Kong SAR is celebrating its 25th birthday having reached world-class heights in a number of fields, as one of the healthiest, wealthiest, safest places on earth.
There's no such thing as a perfect city, so we make no claim of being Utopia --…
PAUL MCCARTNEY, by far the most acclaimed of all pop musicians, recently turned 80.
Eight facts of local interest:
1) Paul, John and George (Ringo was ill) visited Hong Kong on June 8, 1964.
2) In their suite at the President hotel, Kowloon, they found a smiling lady, said to be a mistress of the…
ASIANS CAN BE FUNNY. We are not just math-loving nerds. Well, some of us are. But this weekend, Ashok Swain, an Indian academic, revived the long-running rivalry between China and India with a photograph of a road in India which was basically a string of huge potholes.
“India's Road with Swimming Pools. Can China build…
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ago, Hong Kong was the finance center of China. Today, it is the finance center of Asia, says Joe Ngai of McKinsey, the international corporate analysis firm.
The city’s story is just beginning. “The best years of Hong Kong are ahead of us, rather than behind us,” he said.
He recalls being in…
