Category Archives: Asia Pacific

Avoiding the Cracks

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

All of us in the office were buzzing last week, as news came through that the Australian team had been shortlisted for no less than five gongs at the Campaign Asia Pacific PR Awards to be held in Hong Kong … Continue reading →

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Plus ça Change, plus C’est la Même Chose

Posted on May 12, 2011 by

It’s taken the best part of four months to get back to the Glass House and I’m at a loss to know why. Too busy; too tired; too uninspired. Each a shallow excuse and all the more pathetic for it. … Continue reading →

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Cheese, Badgers and Horse Trading

Posted on July 30, 2010 by

Cheese and Badgers I keep telling myself to knock Asia on the head. Not in a mad-dictatorish, Risk playing, loony kind of way. That would be silly. Nor because of a sudden, unpredicted aversion to air travel. That would provoke … Continue reading →

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Collaboration in Paradise

Posted on April 18, 2010 by

Authenticity, it seems, is more easily said than understood. It suffers from the infuriating personality traits of a mirage. The faster you run towards it, the more distant it becomes. For brands that means the harder they try to be … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year?

Posted on December 31, 2008 by

It is blisteringly hot here in Sydney today. Scorched bare feet are causing millions to hop their way to the harbour foreshore in the New Year scramble for a vantage point to catch Sydney’s annual spectacle, the midnight firework extravaganza. … Continue reading →

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The Revolution Will Not be Televised

Posted on December 2, 2008 by

Despite passing back into the hands of the Chinese in a fittingly symbolic ceremony that provoked a bout of public sobbing by Prince Charles, Hong Kong has continued to retain the air of an island of happy heterosexual capitalism amidst … Continue reading →

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The Gangster’s Daughter

Posted on April 1, 2008 by

If you had ever wondered what, apart from jet lag, keeps the intercontinental traveller awake at night, you need go no further than the Terminal Two book store at Singapore’s Changi airport. There, on a stand that screams Proud as … Continue reading →

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Hotels

Posted on January 20, 2008 by

Us Brits. We’re a lost cause, really. Empathetic psychologists one minute and empirically opinionated the moment they’ve closed the door. We’re wired that way, you see. Robert Winston should do a documentary about it. Or Simon Cowell. Centuries of stoicism … Continue reading →

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Gold Finger

Posted on October 11, 2007 by

Each year the Chinese infrastructure system gets a good run for its money when the population sets off for its Labour Day Golden Week holidays. It’s the point in the year when everyone gets to go home. Of course, going … Continue reading →

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Talk Talk

Posted on September 25, 2007 by

The Taiwanese are a fiercely independent people, never afraid to wear their collective heart on their sleeve. Generally speaking, they also happen to have a track record of being thoroughly nice to foreigners like me. So I suppose at the … Continue reading →

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