FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho
Macau,
I have always wondered why Hengqin Island was left undeveloped for centuries. The land is obviously uneven and lumpy, which makes it harder to build there. Until the 1980s, Zhuhai
I don’t seem to have the words. My language appears foreign to others. I speak, they apparently understand but it doesn’t elicit an appropriate response. I’m environmentally aware and becoming
Escape Australia voted Hong Kong the 20th in its 2015 Top 20 world cities. Why? “Hong Kong is a playground for business and leisure travellers offering trendy dining
I recently visited the Macao Foundation – Caritas Home Care Service section, in an attempt to understand some of the challenges and prospects they are facing while providing their services.
Asia’s aviation market is booming, but the supply of pilots isn’t nearly keeping pace with the demand for flights. Airlines are already struggling with shortages in staff. Two Japanese carriers
As International Women’s Day approached, the number of speeches concerning gender inequality inevitably grew. American actress Patricia Arquette called for wage equality “once and for all,” upon receiving an Academy
Who would anticipate that tourism itself might actually occupy the central stage in the run-up to the March meetings of the NPC and the CPPCC in the capital-city, Beijing? Nobody…unless
Schizophrenia seems to be a pathological feature of our modern time, and present day Macau is no exception. On the one hand, gaming revenues have been taking an ever steeper
One particular case, the first newly registered lawyer mentioned in the letter, though, sounds intriguing. We are no legal experts but we can read and, especially, read between the
Considering he’s one of the highest paid officials in the world, you would think he could spell his job title correctly. Who? Our gaffe-prone financial (sic)secretary who opened a Facebook
Recently it seems that the theme of jobs and workers’ rights has been a hot topic, what with Best Supporting Actress winner Patricia Arquette using her Oscars speech last week
A decade on from the first trophy from the Roman Abramovich-era, Chelsea collected the League Cup with just three survivors from the 2005 match day squad. After scoring the first goal
One late night when I was dragging a big suitcase towards the bus terminal opposite the Grand Lisboa, a couple of unsavory men gathering at the narrow walkway across the
“A weed from catholic Europe, it took root Between some yellow mountains and a sea, Its gay stone houses an exotic fruit, A Portugal-cum-China oddity. Rococo images of Saint and Saviour Promise its gamblers fortunes
Along with their Chinese generational names carefully crafted by the Chinese side of our family, we were going give our daughter the western name Lily (thereby Lili Li); after all,
The reader who guesses which foreign community is the fastest growing in Macau. Talkers were told that it is Northern European. You’ll never guess, so here it is: the Swedes.
What can be considered immortal in this secular world? Would it be a celebrity, a 100-story high-rise building, or a UNESCO façade visited by millions of people every week? All
Is it smart to impose a sin tax on soda? Many Americans hate the idea, considering it an imposition on personal freedom. Congress, likewise, won’t go near it anytime soon. But
Throughout my 18 months as a journalist, the one expression I have heard most often from government officials is “continue to communicate with the public and collect more opinions.” I
The theory in use must be the one about the hypothetical ever-accommodating can of sardines: you squeeze a little and there you go… one more added to the dead school.
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