Tag: Macau Matters
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Macau Matters | Going postal
I greatly enjoy reading The Economist each week. I find it very informative and like that it covers political, business, social and technological issues, with a ... -
Macau Matters | Local primary & secondary education
The education system in Macau is unusual in that there is no standard national curriculum and most schools are non-government. Moreover, the government is happy to ... -
Macau Matters | Improving construction productivity
A recent article in The Economist points out the low productivity and poor performance of the global construction industry. It identifies several things that governments and ... -
Macau Matters | Cadmium Rice
The June 10 issue of The Economist contains a terrifying article about pollution in China. It makes the point that air, water and land pollution across ... -
Macau Matters | Improving financial literacy
Generally, I am appalled at the low levels of financial literacy of many people. Moreover, levels of financial literacy do not seem to vary too much ... -
Macau Matters | Fixing Macau’s Broken Taxi System
There is ample evidence that the government managed and regulated system of taxi services in Macau is totally broken. A cursory analysis leads me to believe ... -
Macau Matters | A Robotic Macau Grand Prix
The entrepreneurs who created the Macau Grand Prix did a wonderful thing, but the government department that has managed it for many years has done nothing ... -
Macau Matters | The joys of train travel
I like trains and recommend them as a great way to travel! I recently took a train from Seattle to Chicago, travelling over the Rocky Mountains ... -
Macau Matters | Macau’s incredible telecom data roaming rip-off
Telecom service providers in Macau are blatantly ripping off their customers with usurious data roaming charges and I cannot understand why the Bureau of Telecommunications Regulation ... -
Macau Matters | Macau’s future economy
I do not normally consider Macau’s economy directly in these pages, but I now think it is clear that Macau has built a strong economy based ... -
Macau Matters | The value in being multilingual
I grew up in a family and suburb of English native speakers, and even my Greek, Italian and Lebanese school friends only spoke English. The only ... -
Macau Matters | Water Woes
Here in Macau we have very inexpensive and very plentiful water, even if the quality is not so good – too many chemicals added to condition ... -
Macau Matters | Drugs – War or Store?
Some Hong Kong fortunes were founded on the opium trade in China. More recently, in the 1930’s there were businesses happily operating in Macau to make ... -
Macau Matters | University industry collaboration
I am currently coaching hospitality students at a local university in research projects to develop service blueprints for banqueting services in hotels. I have asked student ... -
Macau Matters | The email pioneer
Ray Tomlinson, the man who created the software to send the first email message between two computers in 1971 died on 5 March 2016 at the ... -
Macau Matters | Caring for the Elderly – II
My last article (Feb 3) pointed out the growing global problem of support for the elderly and identified some inadequacies in the related healthcare and social ... -
Macau Matters | Caring for the Elderly – I
Along with many other parts of the world, Macau has to cope with a growing elderly population. Continuing improvements in healthcare and food availability mean that ... -
Macau Matters | Aquaponics
Aquaponics is the combination of aquaculture for growing fish and hydroponics for growing plants that is often used in old factory buildings in cities. It is ... -
Macau Matters | Cashless Macau?
I have just been reading that Sweden is likely to be the first country to totally eliminate cash in the form of coins and notes, and ... -
Macau Matters | Stimulating industrial creativity
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) for Sunday 13 December contains a “Designers Shine with Shoe Creations” article on page 6. I do not want to ... -
Macau Matters | Hotel diversification
The media reported recently that Melco Crown had asked for its new Studio City hotel to be downgraded to 4-star to align with the Macau Government ... -
Macau Matters | University internships
For the first time in many years I am teaching an undergraduate university course. Surprisingly, I am enjoying this teaching – I am not known for ... -
Macau Matters: Hotel guest simulation
I participated in a “guest simulation” at the new Marriott hotel in the Galaxy Macau in Cotai on Wednesday-Thursday (20-21 May). It was a very interesting ...
