Tag: Boulevard
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Cotai 2.0 | Channeling Batman, Versailles: Macau’s new wave of resorts
Macau is doubling down even as the odds change. The world’s casino capital this week welcomed the first of a new wave of lavish casino ... -
B.B. King reigned but music lives on
B.B. King believed anyone could play the blues, and that “as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.” But no one could play ... -
Exclusive | From tycoons to state bosses: key people in Chinese business
The most successful of China’s entrepreneurs have created some of the world’s biggest companies and amassed stunning fortunes. Often they are little known outside of China, ... -
FILM | Shooting the wolf
From wine to fashion, China’s current love affair with all things French is on the up. But for veteran French film director Jean-Jacques Annaud it was ... -
Migrants take long, winding road to reach EU gateway Hungary
From a Budapest hilltop overlooking a panorama of central Europe, Jean-Paul Apetey reflects on how far he’s come, how improbable and unexpected his journey has been ... -
Film master classes by Greenaway and Makhmalbaf
I doubt whether or not the famously controversial, in-your-face Peter Greenaway would have a very long conversation with idealist and humanist filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The common ... -
Yoga teacher Rita launches a studio of her own: ‘Om is where her heart is’
Do you know the McDonald’s building in Senado Square? Most of Macau has probably walked inside it at one time or another to get their fast ... -
Art Basel and the rise and rise of Hong Kong, Asia’s USD multi-billion art hub
There are cities and there are cities – Hong Kong is in the category of top Alpha city, along with the likes of London and New ... -
George Chinnery leaves lasting legacy of Macau
Visitors coming to Macau for the first time see a skyline worthy of Manhattan, with skyscrapers shimmering in the night sky and an incessant stream of ... -
Five cars getting attention at the Geneva auto show
Volkswagen’s functional Passat family car may have taken top honors as car of the year at the annual Geneva motor show, but there is no doubt ... -
Curses protected Indian river, but now it faces modern world
There was an actual curse at first, a long held belief that the Chambal River was unholy. There was the land itself, and the more earthly ... -
Exclusive interview with Luís Ortet | The Chinese zodiac for fun
It’s the time of year when local Chinese residents try to take a peek at their fortune for the upcoming year by reading Chinese zodiac ... -
Famed sculptress Joana Vasconcelos debuts at MGM
Fresh from her success representing Portugal at the 55th Venice Biennale, internationally renowned Portuguese contemporary artist Joana Vasconcelos will bring her seductive and subversive large-scale sculptures ... -
Where in the world is Tyler Kuan?
Do you remember the “Where’s Wally?” books? Dressed in a red stripy t-shirt and hat, young protagonist and adventurer Wally would turn up in various locations ... -
Stories of former illegal immigrants who fled to Macau during the’ 70s | ‘In search of freedom and a better life’
In the 1970s and 80s, numerous mainlanders illegally entered Macau and Hong Kong in search of freedom and better lives. Scholars later dubbed the mass movement ... -
In Macao. BY CHARLES A. GUNNISON
PRESS OF COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING CO. 34 CALIFORNIA ST., S.F. (1892) continued from 16 January III The government of Macao derives its greatest revenue from the licensing ... -
In Macao. BY CHARLES A. GUNNISON
Introduction David Brookshaw, Lit. Professor, Un. Bristol A late nineteenth-century Californian view of Macau: Charles Gunnison’s ‘In Macao.’ Charles A. Gunnison (1861-97), the secretary of ...
