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![]() Richard HarrisSouth China Morning Post |
Last summer I, and most of China, went to Florence. I paid homage at the tomb of one of my favourite thinkers, Niccolo Machiavelli. It was he who...
There is an academic experiment that demonstrates the “wisdom of crowds”. It consists of placing a large jar of jelly beans on a desk and asking a...
It is a universally acknowledged truth that there is an enormous amount of land in Hong Kong’s New Territories that could be developed. Sitting on...
In the flurry of New Year self-help articles on the Chinese economy, there is no end of advice for the leadership on what they “need to do”....
All financial analysts have to make confessions from time to time. And I am man enough to grovel to my readers. In mid-November, I confidently...
I bumped into Santa in a local hostelry in Wyndham Street. Head in hands, looking morosely at his pint of Old C Y’s Finest Bitter, he was mumbling...
It’s amazing that the story which knocked Brexit off the international front pages wasn’t Donald Trump’s impeachment, or that Santa Claus is...
It was hilarious to watch world leaders jockey for position for the “family photo” at the G20 summit in Argentina last week. Wielding huge power...
“We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good,” Warren Buffett said. The Sage of Omaha is both...
US President Donald Trump is the best political campaigner since Ronald Reagan. Perhaps better. Unlike Reagan, he is not a politician – he is a man...
The recent loss of data of 9.4 million customers of Cathay Pacific Airways has been greeted by a great deal of self-important, self-righteous,...
One day, they may call it the Marathon Bridge – its 42km-long expressway would be perfect for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Marathon in 2024. The...
In 1170, the English king, Henry II, angered by Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, said, “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”...
Travelling around Europe makes one fully appreciate the European Union project. The four freedoms allow access through borders across the continent...
Market sentiment has ebbed and flowed significantly over the third quarter of the year, including in the United States. Most news seems to have...
As a young teenager 50 years ago, I had a cardboard chart of the South China Sea – bounded by the Philippine and Vietnamese coasts. By listening to...