Editorial
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Round trip
My upcoming journey to Europe is a reminder of both how connected and how disconnected Macau remains from the wider world. The trip itself ... -
On Children’s Day
The Macau Daily Times was born 19 years ago, on Children’s Day 2007. At the time, a new Macau was emerging. Across the reclaimed ... -
War bets and coincidences
There is something deeply unsettling about markets that move before the world does. Not the usual anticipatory twitch of traders reading signals, but the ... -
Degenerative AI?
Generative systems, widely adopted without intellectual discipline, could erode the cognitive capacities education once labored to build – knowledge, character and ethics – psychologists, ... -
All about Macau
The world is becoming a stranger to us. At a pace only machines find natural, we are sliding into an ecosystem where outrage is ... -
Aging as a welfare threat doesn’t add up in gambling town
Every now and then, the city’s political class reaches for a familiar line: Macau’s aging population is placing unbearable pressure on welfare and pensions. ... -
Discrimination at work
Apparently, Macau is not living up to its centuries-old vocation as a port of shelter and trade. The city that once thrived on openness, ... -
What the arrest of Au Kam San means for Macau
The recent arrest of former legislator Au Kam San under Macau’s revised national security law (NSL) marks a turning point for the city. For ... -
Macau Daily Times at 18: Embracing maturity amid challenges
I just returned from Seoul, a city where technology and daily life blend effortlessly. Unlike Macau, where Uber does not operate and transportation remains ... -
A double-edged sword
As Macau marks the 25th anniversary of its return to Chinese sovereignty, the city’s story is one of striking transformation, with economic triumphs interwoven ... -
Sam of the People?
The Chief Executive election in Macau, which saw top judge Sam Hou Fai emerge as the sole candidate—and now the elected Chief Executive as ... -
The carnation discolored
On April 25, 1974, Portugal was transformed by the Carnation Revolution, a bloodless coup that swept away decades of dictatorship. As we mark the ... -
Sweet and Sour Sixteen
We mark 16 years of publication as the amended national security bill (NSL) enters formally into force. The Law No. 8/2023 on Safeguarding of ... -
The Covidian Era
Well into year 3 of the Covidian Era, Macau Daily Times today marks 15 years of uninterrupted publication which should be a date of ... -
Editorial | No room to get
Residents who went abroad – mostly to visit their family in their countries of origin for Christmas and New Year’s celebrations – and booked ... -
Editorial | Imagine
Imagine a world without Covid. And no “religion” too. Lennon’s hopeful words echo strongly in my mind more than ever four decades after I ... -
Editorial | Numbers say it all?
Yesterday’s AL elections, apart from winners and losers (a figure that wasn’t available at the time of this writing) have one major distinction when ... -
Editorial | The Times turns 14 amidst anxiety and fear
We enter our 14th anniversary with mixed feelings. On the one hand, we rejoice for such an achievement in a place and an era ... -
Editorial | The year of living dangerously
It was the worst of times. It was the best of times. Who will want to remember 2020? Not you, not us, not anyone ... -
Editorial | October Fest
Everyone is looking and forecasting visitor turnout for Golden Week waiting and hoping for the return of mass tourism. But they will all fail. ... -
Editorial | Airport 2020
In November 1995, on a very windy day, the Macau International Airport was inaugurated with pomp and fanfare in the materialization of a long-time ... -
Editorial | Soft causes
For the first time in the history of Hong Kong, a newsroom was raided and searched by the police. The headquarters of Next Digital ... -
Editorial | Truth or dare
“The truth is nice but a rumor is priceless.” Mortdecai (fictional character in ‘Mortdecai’) We did not have to wait for a revision of ... -
Editorial | The serpent’s egg
Police authorities have denied the organization of the annual June 4 vigil in remembrance of the victims of Tiananmen on the grounds of public ... -
The Buzz | 13 years a Times: the ‘teens’
Thirteen years ago, only someone with a crystal ball would have been able to predict how the year 2020 would turn out. Macau practically ... -
Editorial | Uncle Stanley
Stanley Ho has been a household name in Macau and East Asia for seven decades. His trade: gambling, although, as the legend goes, he ... -
Editorial | Small to micro support
Secretary Lei Wai Nong announced yesterday the details of the new Covid-19 relief fund which amounts to 13.6 billion patacas overall, on top of ... -
Editorial | Eight weeks
It’s eight weeks since the first contagion of the new virus was detected in Macau. Over this period the community has given a tremendous ... -
Editorial | Small ain’t pretty
The concept of the SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) in Macau should be used cautiously because over 80 percent of our incorporations are actually ... -
Editorial | The dawn of a new era?
Nothing will be the same after the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus that infected mainland China and the world with an epidemic disease (recently ... -
Editorial | ‘Poster boy’ turns 20
“Patriotic education lays a solid social and political foundation for Macau to implement the ‘one country, two systems’ principle and guides its practice to ... -
Editorial | Deafening silence
Over 2.9 million people of Hong Kong cast their vote in Sunday’s district council elections, the highest turnout ever in the sister SAR’s history ... -
Editorial | Be bold to live
The secret of enjoying life to the full is to “get out of the comfort zone,” Jolian, a young Macau entrepreneur and skater told ... -
Editorial | Carrie on
The deadline imposed by legislators and activists for Hong Kong’s government to meet demands for the withdrawal of the controversial extradition legislation and for ... -
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 ...
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