FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho
Macau,
The “extreme” cold weather these last few days in Macao has got me thinking about the good old days – days when we used to have a normal-length cold-ish winter.
That is to say nothing about my first experience of riding in a taxi in Macau, in which I paid about MOP200 for a ten-minute ride from downtown to the
1. Unexpectedly the Bishop, who is almost 70 and is now known to have been dealing with some health issues and undergoing medical treatment, tended his resignation as the head
The Mid-term Review and the independence of the research process: How can you have a researcher with known political aspirations be involved in a review of the industry that will
Let’s use an f-word: “fake.” And another? How about “framed.” Fake is how the edited, inconsistent confession of publisher Gui Minhai appears to his daughter and to most Hong Kongers.
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 something to consider for
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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