Tag: Kapok
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Kapok | Everything in style
This is an ancient dilemma: which one should prevail, substance over form or the opposite? For a very long time substance was always the one considered ... -
Kapok: Liberté, égalité, fraternité
I must admit that I usually don’t easily gulp overly nationalistic injunctions, and hence consider appeals to “national unity” and unquestionable flag-waving displays of national pride ... -
Kapok: Blowing hot and cold
Politicking in Macao at present is being blurred by the celebratory mood of the year-end, and Christmas has indeed a lot to do with it. With ... -
Kapok | Expected Expectations
Nobody can deny it: the announcement of the new government line-up last Monday did not come as a surprise, quite the opposite. Secretaries’ and other senior ... -
Kapok: Moaners
When I voiced concern in my columns last February that Ho Iat Seng, the newly sworn-in president of the Legislative Assembly, was openly deploring the lack ... -
Kapok: Red card for yellow cabs
The disappearance of the yellow taxis in Macao is saddening. First, because they had become a customary fixture of our daily lives: the Official Gazette reminds ... -
Kapok: Paper patriots
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 ... -
Kapok | Hong Kong and us
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 ... -
Kapok | In praise of the vouchers
Let me be honest: at first I was more than doubtful about what I was reading, and one could even say that I started looking deeper ... -
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 the National ... -
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 uncommon, I ... -
Kapok: Drawing the line
I must admit it is often tricky to “draw the line between academic research, political commentary and direct political intervention”—to quote my former employer, and for ... -
Kapok | Contentious words
Let’s be clear, from a constitutional point of view there is nothing “illegal” in organizing an informal public consultation aka survey in the form of a ...
