Our Desk
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Our Desk: Season of discontentment
One late night when I was dragging a big suitcase towards the bus terminal opposite the Grand Lisboa, a couple of unsavory men gathering ... -
Our Desk: Dis-communication
Throughout my 18 months as a journalist, the one expression I have heard most often from government officials is “continue to communicate with the ... -
Our Desk | A journey in the city
A boat cruises through the Mekong River as seen from the Lao province of Khammouane, a picture caption published by the Bangkok Post reads. ... -
Our Desk: Macau – Loulan
During our geography class in high school, our teacher would sometimes share with us his travelling experiences, especially his journeys to mainland China. He ... -
Our Desk: In the name of freedom
On January 7, as some hurried to wrap up a working day on this side of the planet, two men killed 12 people at ... -
Our Desk: Surpresa!
Last week, I asked my friends on Facebook what time I should start queuing outside the Portuguese Consulate to get my citizen card renewed ... -
Our Desk: School of democracy
I read a news article last month about a group called Citizens for Objective Public Education who lost a court case against the Kansas ... -
Our desk: Happy New Year to the one forth amongst us
An unkempt man stopped in front of a shelf that holds several rice pudding cans, reaching out his hands for one. Surrounded by an ... -
Our Desk: ‘Shiny, happy people’
A recent survey shows that Macau’s happiness index is set at 6.99 on a scale of 0 to 10. Unsurprisingly, the people of Macau ... -
Our desk: Sell it to us first
I was at the press conference for the “Parade through Macau, Latin City” on Sunday. The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) has adopted a rather ... -
Our Desk: Transport Madness
When the Public Security Police’s whistles shrieked at the flustered streams of pedestrians in San Ma Lo, the dreadful story of four migrants’ deaths ... -
Our Desk | The power of a protest
Some would say that Hong Kong was on the verge of changing forever on the evening of September 28, when Occupy Central leaders launched ... -
Our desk: As if insults ever work
It has been more than 20 days since the Occupy movement in Hong Kong began. Frankly, I only anticipated that it would last for ... -
Our Desk | The young crusaders
For almost two weeks, tens of thousands of Hongkongers – many of them students – have descended onto the streets to peacefully protest China’s ... -
Our Desk | Don’t be lazy, be an atheist
For the majority of us it is very easy to be comfortable with a set of beliefs or an ideology that we would rather ... -
Our Desk | Breaking up is hard to do
It’s not only teenagers and twentysomethings who like to post their relationship status on Facebook. Countries are doing it too. Last week’s Scottish referendum ... -
Our Desk | A taxi issue
We have all had a taxi horror story in Macau. Some are laughable and come in handy when entertaining and amusing friends who have ... -
Our Desk: The neglected population
I was interviewing the owner of a paper sacrifice offering shop last month when several of her customers came in and asked for some ... -
Our Desk: Awakening Macau
It took some time for Macau to become world-renowned for its magnificent and lucrative casinos. And the MSAR government is still working hard to ... -
Our Desk: Curious decisions
Attempting to launch an unofficial referendum on universal suffrage, three pro-democratic groups faced another setback this week, as the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) ... -
Our Desk: Psychology 101
Last week one of the news stories coming out of China that caught my attention was a rather shocking report that officials in Karamay ... -
Our Desk: Can you “falar”?
In her blog, former Legislative Assembly (AL) president Susana Chou has spoken about her experience of being, somehow, discriminated against by others because she ... -
Our Desk: The fall of House News
The abrupt shutdown of the House News, a pro-democracy news website and online blog, was shared across various social media plat- forms yesterday. For ... -
Our Desk: Learning to stop!
Since Israel launched its ground offensive in Gaza last Saturday, the ever-lasting conflict between Israeli and Palestinians has escalated rapidly once more. We’ve seen ... -
Our Desk: Shallow politics
The Executive Council (ExCo) announced last week that the Macau government will be building 28,000 public housing units and 4,000 private residential apartments in ... -
Our Desk: Unplug and get bored
Do you see people waiting in public venues, canteens, bus stations or even dining alone or sitting on the bus, looking down at their ...
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