Who did we spot the other day walking down Chater Road in Hong Kong
muttering to himself but none other than Merle Hinrichs, the man who
came to Hong Kong with thrippence more than 25 years ago and built the
Asian Sources publishing empire.
In fact, now it's called Global Sources and is into all sorts of
important media, Internet and e-business things - but that's serious
business, not for these pages.
How sad, we thought. A man who has everything that money can buy,
talking to himself as he walks through Central. There but for the grace
of God ...
Then we spotted the tell-tale cord. Yes, Vine fans, Merle hasn't flipped
out. He's now using one of those new-fangled hands-free attachments for
his mobile phone.
Sorry, Merle, but for a moment we thought ...
