Andrew’s longstanding scepticism about the Hong Kong – Zhuhai – Macau bridge when interviewed for Asiamoney magazine – Macau bets on a bridge – was echoed by business leaders there who said that smaller projects would be more helpful if the SAR was to diversify away from its core business.

Herman Melville may have recognised this white whale, a maritime white elephant if you will, but he would also have noted the lack of any obsession in pursuing it. Yes, this is the HK$8.2 billion cruise terminal which opened in 2013 on the old runway at Kai Tak which is not being used much, is […]

Last week, outgoing HK Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying led a tour of government officials and their advisors around the Greater Bay Area. The GBA is a scheme endorsed by Premier Li Keqiang in his annual work report last month to improve integration between the two Special Administrative Regions of HK and Macao and nine other […]

In a couple of months, Hong Kong will commemorate twenty years as a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. There is much to celebrate in that Beijing did not make an example of the old colony as some feared at the time, indeed it has drip fed us various privileges with varying degrees […]

Interviewed for A Plus magazine on the impact of Trump on Hong Kong, Andrew predicted that its professionals would be needed even more, whether it was to interpret China – US trade relations or to facilitate China’s One Belt and Road outreach as China redoubled efforts to show that it could actually deliver on projects in its […]

Amidst all the blood being curdled in the US Presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s pledge to double Hillary Clinton’s $275 billion commitment to domestic infrastructure was a welcome respite. (Energy is a separate topic which I will consider later). US infrastructure has been much neglected since it was built, largely in the 1950s – think of […]

Andrew told an audience of LPs that it was one thing to allocate funds to infrastructure in Asia Pacific but quite another to find projects ready to be invested in.

Interviewed for Cathay Pacific’s Discovery magazine, Andrew opined that the PRD made huge political and economic sense but greater coordination of infrastructure plans across the region was required.

Andrew chaired a panel at the second Financial Reform for Economic Development conference for regional government personnel which recommended how Accountants in public practice should contribute to the difficult decisions which governments needed to make in order to finance infrastructure.