Author: Richard Whitfield
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Macau Matters | The joys of train travel
I like trains and recommend them as a great way to travel! I recently took a train from Seattle to Chicago, travelling over the Rocky Mountains ... -
Macau Matters | Macau’s incredible telecom data roaming rip-off
Telecom service providers in Macau are blatantly ripping off their customers with usurious data roaming charges and I cannot understand why the Bureau of Telecommunications Regulation ... -
Macau Matters | The value in being multilingual
I grew up in a family and suburb of English native speakers, and even my Greek, Italian and Lebanese school friends only spoke English. The only ... -
Macau Matters | Water Woes
Here in Macau we have very inexpensive and very plentiful water, even if the quality is not so good – too many chemicals added to condition ... -
Macau Matters | Drugs – War or Store?
Some Hong Kong fortunes were founded on the opium trade in China. More recently, in the 1930’s there were businesses happily operating in Macau to make ... -
Macau Matters | University industry collaboration
I am currently coaching hospitality students at a local university in research projects to develop service blueprints for banqueting services in hotels. I have asked student ... -
Macau Matters | The email pioneer
Ray Tomlinson, the man who created the software to send the first email message between two computers in 1971 died on 5 March 2016 at the ... -
Macau Matters | Caring for the Elderly – II
My last article (Feb 3) pointed out the growing global problem of support for the elderly and identified some inadequacies in the related healthcare and social ... -
Macau Matters | Caring for the Elderly – I
Along with many other parts of the world, Macau has to cope with a growing elderly population. Continuing improvements in healthcare and food availability mean that ... -
Macau Matters | Aquaponics
Aquaponics is the combination of aquaculture for growing fish and hydroponics for growing plants that is often used in old factory buildings in cities. It is ... -
Macau Matters | Cashless Macau?
I have just been reading that Sweden is likely to be the first country to totally eliminate cash in the form of coins and notes, and ... -
Macau Matters | Stimulating industrial creativity
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) for Sunday 13 December contains a “Designers Shine with Shoe Creations” article on page 6. I do not want to ... -
Macau Matters | Hengqin campus failed Macau
It is now a few years since Macau people spent many billions of patacas to build the Hengqin campus of the University of Macau. As I ... -
Macau Matters | Why no online grocery shopping?
In many parts of the developed world people have been able to go online, shop for groceries and other things and have them home delivered for ... -
Macau Matters | Hotel diversification
The media reported recently that Melco Crown had asked for its new Studio City hotel to be downgraded to 4-star to align with the Macau Government ... -
Macau Matters | Tassie and MONA
While recently visiting family and friends in Australia, a weekend visit to Tasmania (Tassie) and the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) was highly recommended. ... -
Macau Matters: Hotel guest simulation
I participated in a “guest simulation” at the new Marriott hotel in the Galaxy Macau in Cotai on Wednesday-Thursday (20-21 May). It was a very interesting ... -
Macau Matters | Nano Blood Sampling – taking out the fear and pain
Like many people I fear and dislike injections and needles. Moreover, I am now older and the doctors seem to love taking samples of my blood, ...
