Author: Leanda Lee, MDT
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Work Reimagined: Mount Danxia
ANALYSIS There’s a well-known parable of the poor middle-aged Mexican (alternatively a Pacific Islander, Sri Lankan…) fisherman living in an idyllic coastal village. He does not ... -
Trust and Transparency: the pathway to competitiveness
Analysis The mobility numbers this last month between GBA neighbouring regions and the gradual facilitation towards seamless cross-border access continue to strengthen GBA integration. Almost daily, ... -
Talent cultivation and collaborative cross-border education
Analysis Each recent trip I have made into the broader GBA from Macau – official trips which have become more frequent and are almost monthly now ... -
The Power of One: The Single-Person Army
Analysis The Solopreneur might be a novel word to most, but this is hackneyed compared with the One Person Company model. Unlike a sole proprietor, sole ... -
International integration: the push-me pull-you of talent
ANALYSIS The State Council Information Office – and other official media outlets – reported on 30th March on the 2026 Macao International Parade. The Office’s focus ... -
Familiarisation through hedonism: dining, exploring and communing
ANALYSIS In another place and another time, hedonism in all its glory was commonly exemplified by reference to (men) “wining, dining and womanising”, and in heady ... -
Unlock your future in the GBA: Talent wanted here
ANALYSIS Hong Kong Talent Engage announced late last month that Asia’s premier talent hub, the Global Talent Summit Week will be held in Hong Kong in ... -
Light and Space to Breathe
Analysis A hop across to Hengqin on a sunny Sunday, not for lunch or even shopping, but to see a couple of buildings was how the ... -
The Circus has come to town
Analysis There is a long history of the circus coming to town. Family entertainment businesses of a few exotic animals and performers – some with grotesque ... -
Energetic young sophisticated Hengqin
There were times I held an agnostic view of the promoted future of Hengqin. I hold memories looking from Ocean Gardens in Taipa of Hengqin’s green ... -
Cultural integration
Discourse about GBA integration tends to skirt around any overt explanation of how culturally discrete community groups are to integrate. Culture that is manifest in fine ... -
Economic and Social Innovation for Ecological Civilization
Analysis GBA’s Framework Agreement for the economic and social integration of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau was to develop the GBA into a dynamic economy, towards ... -
Food done well – know your farmer’s heart and mind
Analysis A recent advertorial in MDT celebrated MGM’s Aji becoming the first Macau restaurant to earn the top three-star rating in Food Made Good Standard certification. ... -
Gym-bro Chambers: mighty community
Analysis Over the course of one’s life – shaped by education, one’s temporal environment, upbringing, community and situational norms – one has a sense of how ... -
Social sustainable and community supported agriculture
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guandong’s agricultural trade volume is the highest in the country, and the contribution of technological and scientific ... -
AI Disruption: assumptions on timing and origin thwart
Analysis The cascade effect of unintended consequences in markets and where the ripples are eventually felt in the lives of ordinary people continues to fascinate. The ... -
The Developed Economy Quandary – Declining Birthrates
Analysis Declining birth rates will continue to be a major concern across developed nations, no less China and Macau. In an era where we are told ... -
Opening up – China, the environmental leader via the GBA
Analysis Underlining Xi Jinping’s 2021 statement to the UN General Assembly, in late October of this year Beijing reiterated China’s goal of carbon neutrality by 2060. ... -
Tradeoffs: avoid, weaken or accept
Analysis There is broad dialogue among both alternative and conventional economists to shake the foundations of the central importance of economic growth. This questions the validity ... -
Design in mental health: building environments that support well-being and longevity
Analysis Mental health reports have been a recuring theme in the press over recent months: There has been a rise in suicides among young people in ... -
Leveraging Competitive Advantages
Seminars introducing the spirit underpinning the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China were held in Macau on Wednesday ... -
The Poverty of Affluence
Analysis Food is our joy and our medicine. So important is it that the second of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals is to end hunger, ... -
Systems Thinking: Shifting parts changes the whole
Analysis Angela Leong’s suggestion for Macau to become an eco-tourism destination (The Times June 13) has power to create a vibrant and liveable city. It is ... -
Opening: a leap of faith, trust and belief
Analysis In much of the public and official communication on the Greater Bay Area, the general concept of an opening up and an internationalisation is referred ... -
A Capital Idea
Analysis by Leanda Lee* One of the foundational purposes of the Greater Bay Area is the comprehensive opening of the region: an exciting proposition for asset-rich ... -
GBA, the people mover: kindred cousins or foreign interlopers
Analysis The people involved in the integration of industry knowledge and the building of the four focal industries in the GBA will mostly be drawn from ... -
Analysis | The gift of waste
Corporate Social Responsibility and sustainability walk hand in hand. CSR purposefully integrates a company into its corporate eco-system and does not impose costs (externalities) on the ... -
Bizcuits | Plastic Bags Disincentives: One step forward, two steps back
Communities find it difficult to let go of plastic shopping bags. Check-out staff get yelled at; people worry about what to put their rubbish in; they ... -
Bizcuits | How real is Macau’s CSR?
Once hauled up for using an unrecognisable acronym by some seriously educated chaps, I realized my fatal writer’s error: assuming reader knowledge. It hadn’t dawned upon ... -
Bizcuits | CSR: Sustainability or Regeneration?
The Macau Institute for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Greater China held their first forum as reported in the Times this week. While the main focus ... -
Bizcuits | Obsolescent mind
Obsolescence: I’ve always had to rely on the spell-checker for this one, in maybe a subconscious attempt to deny the existence of the commercial form of ... -
Bizcuits | Snakes, rants and witch-hunts – symbols of change
The University of Macau presents as a pragmatic and grounded institution that gets on with the business of education and research. Said to be guided by ... -
Bizcuits | Behaviour change
Even if you may have commented ad hominem against Climate Change Activist, Greta Thunberg, or doubt if her message is fact or fiction, one to be ... -
Bizcuits | Covering Climate Now, with action
“Our office is closed this Friday: we support the #CLIMATESTRIKE”. Today and 27th September, companies and individuals across the globe will strike in support of youth-lead ... -
Bizcuits | Our students: a shocking waste of resources
I have long advocated international students be permitted to work in Macau during their studies, and although that stance has not changed, the geo-political situation has, ...
