Our Desk | The ‘purgatory’ of the unanswered questions

A couple of years ago, a discussion began on a popular web forum for photographers. As, what I am guessing was meant as a joke, someone asked, “Where do the photos

Insight | Fake international

It’s common to find in mainland China examples of what I deem the “fake international” model. To give a familiar example, in a newly developed area in Hengqin there is

Kapok | Fair and… competitive?

On December 30, the official reports on the latest elections of both the Legislative Assembly (AL) and the Chief Executive (CE) were made public. At long last - as this

Views on China | Somebody forgot to tell Mercedes to worry about China

If China’s financial woes spell doom for Germany’s automakers, somebody forgot to tell Daimler. Its Mercedes-Benz brand recorded a 31 per cent jump in China sales in December, according to figures released on Friday,

Made in Macao | Tradition of ‘Selling Laziness’

As Chinese New Year approaches, we can see people getting ready everywhere, ordering New Year food, buying red envelopes, and, earlier than before, they have started preparations by exchanging their

Views on China | China isn’t headed for a financial crisis

Ever since the 2008 global financial crisis, pundits have tried to guess which country could set off the next implosion. Last week, China seemed to put itself forward as a

Rear Window | Iceberg

In the aftermath of the so-called Dore heist, the Secretary for Economy and Finance and the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau imposed stricter accounting rules on junket operators in a

Bizcuits | Expatriates over hemispheres

Father Christmas - as he is known in some older subcultures of my Australian home – took to the waves on a surfboard in 1977. At that time, an awareness

HK Observer | Fairy tales about missing booksellers

It’d be hard to find anyone in Hong Kong who honestly believes that the five missing booksellers were not blackmailed, kidnapped or perhaps ‘honey trapped’; set up in sex-related situations.

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 maybe this is a

Our Desk | Where are Macau’s bookstores?

Many industry leaders attribute this decline to rent increases and the invasion of the market by online bookstores and the growth of e-readers. Indeed, across China bookstores have survived either

World Views | Nine books to survive age of uncertainty

That is the theme of my latest book, “The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability and Avoiding the Next Collapse,” which is scheduled to be published Jan. 26. It

Made in Macao | You light up my town

One of the biggest buzz among citizens of Macau during this Christmas Break is undoubtedly the Macao  Light Festival 2015. The Tinkerbell-like Butterfly Fairy has met with enormous success, as

World Views | Cronyism is behind the worst kind of inequality

Economic inequality has skyrocketed in the U.S. during the past few decades. That has prompted many calls for government policies to reverse that trend. Defenders of the status quo argue

Rear Window | The Theory of Everything

As the low-budget season comes to its end, we guess it is the appropriate time to try pinpointing the trends that made 2015 different enough to be remembered as a

HK Observer | The bin bombers blew it

Well done LegCo bin bombers. Just what those who want to restrict our freedoms need. Now it’s we told you so; Hong Kong is not ready for more freedom, security

Our Desk | Tourism! Which Tourism?

Last October, the government set up a committee to help advance the transformation of Macau into a “World Centre for Tourism and Leisure” (WCTL). The information was released in an Executive

Kapok | The holistic imperative

Occasionally taking a few steps backwards in order to get a better and wider perspective on one’s own status and development sounds like an imperative, and better even when it

Box Office | As ‘Star Wars’ returns, a new generation quakes

Long before I was a movie writer and critic, I was a teenager driving up the Garden State Parkway in a Storm Trooper helmet, inquiring toll booth attendants if they

Sport Views | MLB’s hard on rose, easy on gambling

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred’s decision to uphold Pete Rose’s permanent ban for gambling should come as no surprise. Even for those who think the ban should be lifted

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