FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho
Macau,
Patriotism is a double-edged sword: mustered adequately it becomes a potent mantra for the community to feel more united, but a ponderous and rather superfluous summon can easily devoid it
The protests here have probably changed the political future of Hong. While on the one hand as we have seen by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee decision, a hardened
The “Where’s Waldo?” speculation over Kim Jong Un’s six-week vanishing act – was he ill? under house arrest? in a cheese coma? – might have been funny if it hadn’t
It has been more than 20 days since the Occupy movement in Hong Kong began. Frankly, I only anticipated that it would last for a week, but different incidents that
As the ‘dust’ settles in Admiralty, Causeway Bay and Mong Kok, pepper spray dissolves into thin air and the umbrella protests come to an end, only to revive again and
The gaming industry is big in Asia – we in Macau think we know this. So coming as a shock to those in the know was the fact that Gaming
China has the Great Hall of the People. Hong Kong has the “Great Hall of the Tycoons.” The above-mentioned phrase was uttered by Briton David Webb on Saturday night as
An increasing number of people are afraid that the economic slowdown in China is bad news for the rich economies of the West. Lord Turner, the former head of the
Hong Kong is no stranger to massive street protests. The last was in 2003, when half a million people took to the streets to protest the proposed anti-subversion law, required
The World Press Photo (WPP) exhibition is back in town, having opened on Saturday in Casa Garden. It is a world class exhibition that is featured all over the globe
The Occupy Central movement is, of course, about democracy and the rejection of the perceived National People’s Congress’ fool’s bargain of August 31st. The central authorities have decided that that
Finally genuine dialogue has been promised between protestors and the government. C.Y. Leung’s number two Carrie Lam Yuet-ngor is due to meet students for a series of talks, on political
The Diocese has made its first step. On September 26 and 27, the Diocese of Macau set up a forum at the Macau Polytechnic Institute to discuss three major aspects
For almost two weeks, tens of thousands of Hongkongers – many of them students – have descended onto the streets to peacefully protest China’s limitations on the first-ever direct elections
1. As we write this column, unaware of the key players in Chui Sai On’s second team of secretaries, we have to rely on President Xi Jinping’s political endorsement. This
If there’s any likely winner from China’s unprecedented clampdown on Hong Kong, it’s Singapore. All the tiny city-state needs to do to attract the giant banks, hedge funds and multinational firms
For the majority of us it is very easy to be comfortable with a set of beliefs or an ideology that we would rather defend than question. I am not talking
Governance is often not well understood by the average man on the street but what we frequently take for granted in the structure and norms of organisations are mechanisms to
I once commented upon Pope Francis’ vision at the beginning of 2014. I said that the Pope foresaw that the Church “is not an institution to punish, but instead to
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 caught the attention of parodists who
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