Editorial
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Editorial | Atonement
The greatest difficulty China has in revisiting the June 4, 1989 episode has a name attached to it: Deng Xiaoping. The ‘architect’ of the ... -
Editorial | Senhor Presidente
Paulo Coutinho In an interview published in these pages, lawyer Paulo Cardinal summons up the sentiment of many of us in Macau that Portugal ... -
Editorial | Chief puzzle
Heavyweight politician Edmund Ho made a rare and strong public appearance last week in a checks and balances convenium of Macau representatives’ work at ... -
Editorial | The great ‘bray’ area
The vagueness of the 11-chapter document [on the Greater Bay Area] suggests that officials will struggle to realize the initiative’s goals,” said recently Yue ... -
Editorial | HKZMB FAQ
I couldn’t be more ambivalent about the impact the opening of “the longest sea bridge” in the world had on me. It was a ... -
Editorial | Invoking (democracy) in vain
Tuesday’s Legislative Assembly (AL) plenary session was an unprecedented and rather peculiar debate on democracy, Macau style. The “reflection” was prompted by a gang ... -
Editorial | Of eggs and paper planes
In 1970, Prime Minister Harold Wilson was being harshly attacked by the opposition Conservative Party and by many people because of unpopular tax measures ... -
Editorial | The Manchurian candidate
The plot of the popular political thriller is well known: simply put, it delves into a conspiracy to install a puppet leader in a ... -
Editorial | A ruling against Vong resolution
A judge at the Court of First Instance (TJB) decided to adjourn the trial of Sulu Sou (and Scott Chiang) sine die pending a decision ... -
Editorial | Do the right thing
Secretary Wong Sio Chak recently said that the prosecution against lawmaker Sulu Sou has no political motivations and that the case runs its due ... -
Editorial | Pan-democrats, Hato and hate
He was bluffing. By 10pm yesterday, Jason Chao shared via several online platforms a link to a page where New Macau would announce the ... -
Editorial | I vote CAEAL
“Prognostics? Only after the game.” (João Pinto, Portuguese footballer) The Electoral Affairs Commission (CAEAL) added another dumb rule on Wednesday to the cascade of ... -
August to remember
The chief of the weather bureau, Fong Soi Kun, was fired for good reason. But I don’t agree with the government’s justification. Actually, he ... -
Editorial | Declaration of bullshit
Pardon my French, but the latest draft of the so-called electoral law, already enforced, is bullshit. First, it won’t prevent me, or any media, ... -
Editorial | Times run fast, faster in Macau
The notion of time is relative, ask Einstein. In Macau it is even more relative. We live within a very limited perimeter, and family, ... -
Sense and sensibility
The Pearl Horizon scandal reached the absurd this week. On one side we have hundreds of desperate pre-sale buyers who have lived in distress ... -
A confused ‘clarification’
The Public Security Police (PSP) issued a communique last Friday (Feb 3) through the official government channels to the media. The same text was ... -
Editorial | SAR overruled
Elected lawmakers Yau Wai-ching’s and Sixtus Leung’s mockery oaths, three weeks ago, were ruled invalid by the Legislative Council, and subsequent attempts have resulted ... -
Officialdom
This week, on Tuesday evening, August 30, I received in my mailbox an unusual (not unique) request from a media agency. I guess I ... -
Editorial | China, Taiwan, the SARs: Brexit
There’s a strange feeling in the air we breathe these days. No, I’m not talking about the overwhelming pollution – although we had reports ... -
Editorial | Canidoomed
We live in a world of causes, as opposed to a world of ideologies. From the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution throughout the ... -
Editorial | Sheriff gone rogue
In this year’s Best Picture movie “Spotlight”, inspired by the work of the investigative reporting section of the Boston Globe – exposing decades-old pedophilia ... -
Editorial | Pataca unpegged or (the day I’ll leave Macau)
The peg-unpeg of the pataca to the American dollar – indirectly via the link to the Hong Kong dollar – is a decades-old discussion. ... -
Editorial | Hypothermia
Cold weather all over the planet is killing hundreds, especially the most delicate: the old, the sick, the homeless, and the lonely. In greater ... -
Editorial | 2015: Another year on the waiting list
The city was shocked in 2015 by the tragic death of Ms Lai Man Wa, the Customs Chief, who allegedly committed suicide by asphyxiation, ... -
Godsend delay
Some newsman once said – and I like to quote – there is no good or bad news, just news. Well, to every rule ... -
Editorial | Dore to door greed
My informed sources say that over 60 percent of Dore investors are Macau residents. This is typical of the stories where you can’t really ... -
Editorial | Bon Jovi, two systems
The Bon Jovi China tour was trimmed to Macau following the abrupt cancelation of their concerts in Shanghai and Beijing. The international press – ... -
Editorial | Bringing down the house
First it was the strong winds of the anti-corruption campaign from the North, blowing away the big red bucks from the VIP tables, which ... -
Far from where
3 Jews are sitting in a DP [Displaced Persons] camp after the war. Says the first Jew, “I’m going to settle in England.” The ... -
Jack Black
“We are facing a pretty tough period,” Galaxy deputy chairman Francis Lui said at a briefing this week about prospects for a Macau gaming ... -
Jack Black
The chances of pulling off a hole-in-one in the sport of golf are 250,000 to one. Legislator and businessman Chan Meng Kam did it ... -
Jack Black
Blaming Raimundo shouldn’t be an easy task: he wasn’t here for 15 years! Still, legislators of different colors somehow find a way to blame ... -
Bullets over Gaming
Much has been said and written about the cap on gaming tables. Apparently nobody seems to listen to what Secretary Lionel Leong has been ... -
Jack Black
The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC), headed by André Cheong, has been in the news every week, baring its teeth to both “tigers” and “flies”. ...
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