Author: Leanda Lee, MDT
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Bizcuits | Vulnerable expatriates in crisis
Beyond the glamour and the rewards of an expatriate life there are inevitable difficulties caused by stresses of adjusting to a strange environment. Where personal stress ... -
Bizcuits | Animal cruelty coming off the menu
Environmental sustainability has gained traction from our Integrated Resorts. Earlier focus was on the traditional low-hanging fruit of cost-cutting through water and energy efficiencies, recycling and ... -
Bizcuits | Fields of Green…
I dream of a day when all the casinos in Macau have edible gardens on their expansive roof-top real estate. I have voiced this only once ... -
Bizcuits | Why Plastic-Free July is coming again
From modest beginnings in Perth in 2011, Plastic-Free July is back with #ChooseToRefuse and #PlasticFreeJuly challenges. Last year over 2 million people from 177 countries participated ... -
Bizcuits | CSR the PR tool vs Transparent Externalities
With the retendering process for the gaming licenses on the horizon, incumbent concessionaires are informing the public about what they are doing to support the local ... -
Bizcuits | Talent outside the box
A few years ago, Ernst & Young, the fifth largest recruiter of graduates in the UK, removed from their employment criteria the requirement for a university ... -
Bizcuits | Dignified Selfies
As part of his state visit to China, the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has come to Macau and, with a lingering ... -
Bizcuits | Mass confusion
Las Vegas Sands Ltd released their first quarter results after share markets closed in the US Wednesday. Industry media writers and analysts offer us interesting insight ... -
Bizcuits | Environment: Not quite leaderless
In an unusually forthright utterance at MIECF last week, Antonio Trindade (CEO of CESL Asia) made the surprising statement that Macau lacks integrity in environmental leadership. ... -
Bizcuits | Labour protection: No value in values
Macau residents would not have been surprised by the Times’ exposé (Special Report March 8) of the conditions our most vulnerable workers are at times forced ... -
Bizcuits | Ethnocentrism clouds analysis
Although flagged in gaming analyst reports back in February 2018, the public announcement of a reshuffling of the control of the Stanley Ho family gaming empire ... -
Bizcuits | The Bridge and other symbols
Whether they be the most monumental, mundane or just plain, products and artefacts that we interact with each day hold meaning, even those that are hardly ... -
Bizcuits | Political activism in baking bread
Leanda Lee It was many months ago, but it has been sitting uneasily on my mind. A close associate had been developing skills and knowledge of ... -
Bizcuits | Time: the Christmas gift
Christmas 2018 marks the year we sent nothing to landfill. Ten family members sat down to Christmas dinner of ham (honey-glazed with assistance from the bees ... -
Bizcuits | The New Vice: Sustainability
Sustainability is about to go out of fashion, and for fundamentally good reasons. Fast becoming a bogus ethical term, “sustainability” is used by companies in their ... -
Bizcuits | Black Friday Spoils and Devastation
It was severely hot and dry that summer in Victoria. The drought had lasted several years, creeks and riverbeds were dry, and Melbournians were on water ... -
Bizcuits | A story on your dinner plate
Leanda Lee Lily died in a 4WD accident earlier this year. Her coming of age 21st birthday would have fallen on Mother’s Day. Instead, the day ... -
Bizcuits | A bridge devoid of humanity
This week the Bridge opens and the head of the Macau Liaison Office dies: the first was to fanfare – long awaited and yet abruptly – ... -
Bizcuits | Activists: Guiding us down Desire Paths
Desire paths are tracks worn by the wishes and feet of those gone before. As explained in an article in last week’s Guardian, they very often ... -
Bizcuits | Casinos Innovate in Zero-Waste
Annie Lao, a fellow plastic-waste activist, and her team petitioned the government to take some baby-step actions to curb Macau’s disproportionate creation and mismanagement of solid ... -
Bizcuits | The last straw
Recently we have seen some concerted single-use plastic and waste activism locally; and not before time. From a petition seeking a plastic-bag ban to “plogging”, individuals ... -
Bizcuits | The elephant on the bridge
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HKZMB) has long been proposed (2002), planned (from 2004) and contracts signed (2009). It has long been in development, long been seen ... -
Bizcuits | Bonus points for bonus assets
Five years ago, I wrote to the Chief Executive. My message may have fallen on deaf ears, maybe not, but nothing ventured, nothing gained, and I ... -
Bizcuits | IPIM rebranded
The lack of transparency and high use of discretion with the residency application and renewal process through Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) have been ... -
Bizcuits | Waste not, want not
Monday morning’s video of the hygiene worker in Aberdeen, possibly in the employ of Hong Kong’s Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, throwing a bag of rubbish ... -
Bizcuits | From plastic-free-July to product stewardship
I knew it was bad: I had sailed dinghies in that murky delta water, ignored whatever happened to be floating past; I had pulled shredded flotsam ... -
Bizcuits | Traffic fines: it’s you, not us
When there is an outrage over laws or when the general law-abiding community starts flouting the law, it is probably the law that is unfair or ... -
Bizcuits | The Expat Awards
It is the season for relatively new business awards. This month the names of winners in the inaugural G2E Asia Awards were published, and in its ... -
Bizcuits | Casual and laborious contempt
The most recent decision in relation to increasing the charges to foreign-worker mothers in hospital fees for giving birth at the public hospital is triple- whammy ... -
Bizcuits | The Sustainable Organic Consumer
This year’s Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum and Exhibition has come and gone. Water for speakers was poured from stainless- steel jugs into glasses (a pity ... -
Bizcuits | A healthy disrespect
Plastered all over my social media feeds last week were still-shots of an athlete, not just any athlete, but the athlete who apparently is closest to ... -
Bizcuits | Weeping Walls and Wild Swans
March is depressing and Dark. One day, you wake up to the tears of an oppressing atmosphere. The walls weep in March. In adjusting to a ... -
Bizcuits | Visa Hike: for or against the powerless?
Transit visa fees from China over Macau increased last Sunday from RMB50 to RMB340 – a surge of over 600 percentage. This has come without warning ... -
Bizcuits | Nobody Wynns
Since when was gambling not synonymous with sex and vice? Marketers may position casinos as family-friendly but the ogling of pole dancers and free-flowing booze at ... -
Bizcuits | Imperfect success
Wabi-sabi is an Asian aesthetic of Zen origin that values beauty in the transient (as the ephemeral cherry blossom), in impermanence, in the incomplete, the flawed, ...
