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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho
Macau,
Macau is doubling down even as the odds change. The world’s casino capital this week welcomed the first of a new wave of lavish casino resorts for its up-and-coming Cotai
B.B. King believed anyone could play the blues, and that "as long as people have problems, the blues can never die." But no one could play the blues like B.B. King,
The most successful of China’s entrepreneurs have created some of the world’s biggest companies and amassed stunning fortunes. Often they are little known outside of China, but that is changing
From wine to fashion, China’s current love affair with all things French is on the up. But for veteran French film director Jean-Jacques Annaud it was surprising that this “amour”
From a Budapest hilltop overlooking a panorama of central Europe, Jean-Paul Apetey reflects on how far he’s come, how improbable and unexpected his journey has been — and yet how
I doubt whether or not the famously controversial, in-your-face Peter Greenaway would have a very long conversation with idealist and humanist filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The common ground would be narrow,
Do you know the McDonald's building in Senado Square? Most of Macau has probably walked inside it at one time or another to get their fast food fix, but Rita
There are cities and there are cities - Hong Kong is in the category of top Alpha city, along with the likes of London and New York for global influence
Visitors coming to Macau for the first time see a skyline worthy of Manhattan, with skyscrapers shimmering in the night sky and an incessant stream of vehicles crossing the bridges
Volkswagen’s functional Passat family car may have taken top honors as car of the year at the annual Geneva motor show, but there is no doubt what visitors come to
There was an actual curse at first, a long held belief that the Chambal River was unholy. There was the land itself, and the more earthly curse of its poor-quality
It’s the time of year when local Chinese residents try to take a peek at their fortune for the upcoming year by reading Chinese zodiac almanacs. But this tradition surely
Staging her first solo exhibition in China, this showcase will be the most ambitious the sculptress has attempted to date. Comprising solely new works specifically conceived for the space, central
Do you remember the “Where’s Wally?” books? Dressed in a red stripy t-shirt and hat, young protagonist and adventurer Wally would turn up in various locations around the world and
In the 1970s and 80s, numerous mainlanders illegally entered Macau and Hong Kong in search of freedom and better lives. Scholars later dubbed the mass movement of people as the
COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING CO. 34 CALIFORNIA ST., S.F. (1892) continued from 16 January The government of Macao derives its greatest revenue from the licensing of gambling houses, and these form one of the principal
A late nineteenth-century Californian view of Macau: Charles Gunnison’s ‘In Macao.’ Charles A. Gunnison (1861-97), the secretary
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