Marc Perton

Grand Harmony Restaurant, Chinatown, New York, 12/25/08 Following the Jewish tradition of eating Chinese food on Christmas brings to mind the year that I had the Worst Chinese Food in the World. We were vacationing in the Florida Keys a few years back, spending a couple of nights in each of [...]

Back in the 90s, I interviewed a Hong Kong financier named Philip Tose for Asia Inc magazine. Tose—whose Peregrine Investment Holdings later went belly up amid charges of incompetence and negligence—had recently caused something of a stir in the local press by saying that “Western-style political democracy” was the root cause of many of [...]