Scotch in urgent need of a creative twist

Kelvin Tam likes to introduce himself as China's very own "Scotch whisky priest".

On the evening we met in Beijing, share prices had tanked 8.5 percent, and so his offer of a soothing glass of Scotland's national drink would certainly have been comforting to anyone who had been on the receiving end of such a bruising day in the market.

But Tam was proposing something even more appealing than just hard liquor and a pastoral ear.