The lack of transparency and high use of discretion with the residency application and renewal process through Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) have been ongoing and
Being hunted down by Italian police, across nations and borders, is not a thing that happens to me much. But I just had a Mafia moment and there’s
Business and recreational travel have been strongly growing in South-East Asia for many years, and this trend is sure to continue for many years to come as the
Facebook Inc. bestrides the Earth. It attracts nearly 1.5 billion users a day, commands a fifth of global online advertising revenue, and has a market capitalization that exceeds
China doesn’t quite have the game sewn up. So bad is the West’s public-relations standing in the era of Trump and Brexit that it’s easy to see Chinese
Here we go again heading into normal peak typhoon season! From July all the way to September, people and government departments are keen to prevent the dire consequences
Greece roughly receives the same number of tourists as Macao; around 32 million per year. Tourism in Greece represents about 20% of GDP and, directly or indirectly,
The number seven has many representations in different cultures. From the biblical point of view, the creation of our world was done in seven days. The Book of
Mathematics teaches, as does common sense, that if a major investment of the magnitude of MOP1.5 billion is to be made in a company indebted by Mop1.44 billion,
As we all know, Iceland and Macau have probably little or virtually nothing in common, so to compare the country with our region would be a meaningless comparison. Still,
The new bill on civil protection law, which proposes the establishment of a “crime of social alarm,” represents a new attack on freedom of speech in Macau.
Monday morning’s video of the hygiene worker in Aberdeen, possibly in the employ of Hong Kong’s Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, throwing a bag of rubbish into the
Why has the picture agency Getty been in trouble during the World Cup? They created a gallery of photos of attractive female fans. Their post, ‘The hottest fans
The natural world is an excellent recycler – biological processes consume natural resources to live and produce waste, and other processes then further “eat” those wastes and the
Macau’s addiction to waste is a troubling phenomenon, especially because such a disparity exists between what we think we throw out and what we actually do. The
Not knowing whether the Public Prosecution Office has filed an appeal against Sulu Sou and Scott Chiang sentencing as we draft this column… we would rather look into
It is not an easy thing to win the heart and mind of the people for government officials in peaceful times. Being elected is a good start,
In these two years, we have seen quite a number of books and news articles published on the topic of “post-truth”. Journalists are claiming we have entered a
When we talk about inflation in Macau, we enter the virtual world of estimating an indicator supposed to measure the increase in the cost of living. Such an indicator
A family friend announced at a social gathering that she is two months pregnant - happy news for all present. Everyone was advising her to be more cautious in
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