Opinion
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HK OBSERVER: Pandora’s Box
From the perspective of Beijing there seems to be no going back from the National People’s Congress Standing Committee’s recommendations for universal suffrage for ... -
VOX PARVA: Poorest of the poor
How would you define poor? If we opt for an international standard, economic data will help us to draw a poverty threshold. Theoretically, we ... -
Rear Window: Source code
Occupy Central member Benny Tai Yiu-ting’s admission of an objective defeat regarding the 2017 full democratic electoral method, and the corresponding victory of the ... -
Kapok: Hong Kong and us
The recent debate over universal suffrage for the 2017 election of the Chief Executive in Hong Kong, and the much anticipated ruling made by ... -
World Views: This Is what your brain might look like on telepathy
Big news in the world of science and technology: Scientists just invented a form of telepathy. Actually, it’s a form of noninvasive electronic brain-to-brain ... -
Our Desk: The neglected population
I was interviewing the owner of a paper sacrifice offering shop last month when several of her customers came in and asked for some ... -
Our Desk: Awakening Macau
It took some time for Macau to become world-renowned for its magnificent and lucrative casinos. And the MSAR government is still working hard to ... -
Insight: Planning with human dimension
Last month in Hong Kong, there was a rally in Mong Kok protesting against the flow of mainland visitors. According to the protesters, the ... -
Bizcuits: Newbies
“How long have you been in Macau?” appears an innocent enough question but can be heavily laden with judgement depending upon the answer and ... -
HK Observer |Rights are not given; they are fought for
How can the government expect people here to accept the fake findings of their consultations on political reform as true when 90% of responses ... -
world views: Keep China honest in Hong Kong’s election
How many times does China’s ruling Communist Party have to say that it opposes “genuine choice” in Hong Kong elections before the local democracy ... -
Vox Parva: Who cares about the mission?
From the very beginning, I wish to make my stance known about the word “mission.” In the simplest sense, we may use a reference ... -
World Views: Japan plays game of growth roulette with casinos
MGM Resorts is looking over Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji fish market as a site for a giant casino. The jokes, of course, are on the ... -
Rear window: Political ‘patchwork’
Running solo has its peculiarities. On one hand, the acting Chief Executive has to find time to campaign as if the electoral committee that ... -
Kapok: The uniqueness of being only one
Elections get me excited, even when one has no real choice and the predictability of the outcome is no less than 100%. This is ... -
World Views: Why do more men than women really commit suicide?
Robin Williams’s death has brought welcome attention to the very real problem of suicide in the U.S. From 2000 to 2011, suicides increased to ... -
Our Desk: Curious decisions
Attempting to launch an unofficial referendum on universal suffrage, three pro-democratic groups faced another setback this week, as the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) ... -
World Views: London wont be most influential for long
London is the world’s most influential city, according to a study reproduced in Forbes magazine. As a resident of the British capital for a ... -
World Views: Africa goes medieval in its fight against Ebola
As the Ebola epidemic claims new victims at an ever-increasing rate, African governments in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia have instituted a “cordon sanitaire,” ... -
Bizcuits: The problem with ethics
Talk about ethics in business in Macau and you’re likely to be met with a wry smile and a look that reads “oh, you’re ... -
HK Observer: ‘CNN International are commies, and the Brits are hopeless’
According to leaked emails allegedly written by Mark Simon, tycoon Jimmy Lai’s right-hand man, “CNN International are commies, and the Brits are hopeless”. Simon ... -
Vox Parva: ‘Arise, shine’ at Asian Youth day
The 6th Asian Youth day will be hosted in Daejeon, South Korea from today to August 17. According to the Vatican Radio, it will ... -
Our Desk: Psychology 101
Last week one of the news stories coming out of China that caught my attention was a rather shocking report that officials in Karamay ... -
Rear Window | TUI cum laude
The ruling that the MSAR’s Court of Final Appeal (TUI) made on the negative answer that the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau gave the ... -
World views | Ebola: The Economics of Infection
Ebola is a truly frightening disease, with a fatality rate as high as 95 percent (although the death rate in the current outbreak in ... -
World Views: An income cap might not be as crazy as it sounds
Concern about rising wealth and income inequality has generated all kinds of solutions, often focused on improving the lot of the people at the ... -
World Views: Why Emerging World Leaders Are So Like Putin
The leaders of some of the biggest developing nations – China, India, Turkey, South Africa – are increasingly acting like Russian President Vladimir Putin. ... -
Our Desk: Can you “falar”?
In her blog, former Legislative Assembly (AL) president Susana Chou has spoken about her experience of being, somehow, discriminated against by others because she ... -
Insight: ‘Gasosa’ – The impact of corruption
Whilst travelling across around 800 km of Angolan roads, I noticed that one of the most effective “services” in Angola is the police roadside ... -
WORLD VIEWS: Portugal should allow BES to fail
Back in August 2008, as the credit crunch was really starting to bite, Tim Price, director of investments at PFP Wealth Management in London, ... -
Bizcuits: How lucky
Many expatriates and foreign residents come to the point early in our stay where we have to make a decision about hiring domestic help. ... -
HK Observer: Rigged elections and rigged petitions
So has the recent ´referendum´ on methods of electing the Chief Executive by the pro-democratic reform movement, Occupy Central been recognized by Beijing? Yes, ... -
Vox Parva: The torch relay continues with a prayer
After one year of deaconship, on 3:30pm of July 12, 2014, Deacon Cyril Jerome Law, Junior. is ordained to be a priest, presided by ... -
Politics is the art of compromise
The Legislative Yuan [Taipei’s parliament] began a two-week extra session on Monday to review the qualifications of 29 candidates nominated to the Control Yuan ... -
Our Desk: The fall of House News
The abrupt shutdown of the House News, a pro-democracy news website and online blog, was shared across various social media plat- forms yesterday. For ...
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