Tag: Rear Window
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Rear Window | Macau delivers
Even though we cannot project the outcome of the global public health crisis developing by the minute, as we pen this column we may evaluate how ... -
Rear Window | SARs through the Looking-Glass
First… we have to apologize for the Lewis Carrol copycat when it would be better to submit to the always fresh cliché of the tale of ... -
Rear Window | The right and difficult stuff
Already speeding toward the double 20 – December 20th marks two decades as a Special Administrative Region – Macau is facing additional responsibilities as the ´good ... -
Rear Window | Squaring the circle
Hong Kong is apparently at its direst crossroads, stranded between Beijing’s resolve to restore order in the SAR and the symbolic strength Hongkonger foot protesters still ... -
Rear Window | Face off
Once again, Macau sails through that atypical season of a quiet and uneventful brand of local politics where and when anything goes. That is to say, ... -
Rear Window | Pride that blinds
Contrary to some (un)conventional wisdom, making the case for the gentle, well-behaved, realistic Macau, as against the fiery and doomed Hong Kong, we think there is ... -
Rear Window | Walled City
While penning this column, we do not know yet what happened at the so-called Hong Kong Town Hall meeting; and that is a disclaimer to guard ... -
Rear window | Polishing Chui Sai On’s legacy
Both President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, who handed the appointment certificate to Chief Executive-elect, unequivocally praised Ho Iat Seng on his contributions to the ... -
Rear Window | Pepper spray & batons
…and the occasional downpour of rubber bullets, were found to be the appropriate answer to contain the huge crowds assembled to demand the dumping of the ... -
Rear Window | Back to basics
Two million Hong Kong residents felt obliged to go down to Admiralty to fight against a fishy extradition bill, deemed an “evil law” by the freshly ... -
Rear Window | Doomed to fail
The 30th anniversary of the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square, perhaps the most worrying of 2019 ephemerides, went by without so much as an unpredictable event, ... -
Rear Window | Ho by himself
Now it is for real and definitive that political heavyweight Ho Iat Seng is running solo, unopposed and undisturbed, up the for confirmatory procedure of the ... -
Rear Window | Fever mounts at… Macau SAR
Until the matter of the candidate – or candidates – selected to replace Chief Executive Chui Sai On is unequivocally settled, the political environment will be ... -
Rear Window | The Fifth Dimension
The truth is…until former Chief Executive Edmund Ho gave his cryptic reading on the selection of the candidate to replace Chui Sai On at the helm ... -
Rear Window | The deciding factor(s)
As we have said before in this column, and we will say it again, apparently all relevant central political tips are vouching for a Ho Iat ... -
Rear Window | Sailing charted waters
Kitesurfer Hillian Siu had to postpone her pioneer friendship vol across the Pearl River Delta, from Cheung Chau Island in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ... -
Rear Window | Ho Iat Seng: the natural candidate
Today it will be too difficult to spot anybody who disbelieves Ho Iat Seng is to succeed Chui Sai On as Macau’s Chief Executive. Local entrepreneur ... -
Rear Window | Red flags all along 2019
On the eve of Chinese New Year, we could not but accept the invitation to summarize in this column some of the worries – perhaps developing ... -
Rear Window | Decorations, Medals and Certificates of Merit
It was again that time of happily be the recipients of the Lotus and the other Merit Awards… honoring those individuals, and entities, whose contributions latu ... -
Rear Window | Coming of age
At first glance, we would not dare to say that MSAR was clearly roaring its engines and taking the fast lane to race towards its 20th ... -
Rear Window | Macau reinventing itself…again
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Lisbon, ending in a tour that took him to the G-20 in Argentina, to Panama and Spain, would necessarily ... -
Rear Window | Boldly inaccurate
Despite a sort of social commotion rooted in a long-time bonding with Bobo, one would have said that the Flora Garden’s oldest (?) inmate passing away ... -
Rear Window | Blowing off some steam
Since Denis Papin’s digester everybody knows that you cannot manage a pressure cooker without something to let off some steam …whether screamingly high or low pitch! ... -
Rear Window | Contrasting tendencies
Despite the almost negligible cash-flow retreat, these days of the heavy showering of bills from the 45 Casinos’ Golden Week seems not enough to brighten up ... -
Rear Window | Macau after Typhoon Mangkhut
These days we find ourselves turning to recollect a former Portuguese prime-minister who was credited with having said – although he was not exactly a follower ... -
Rear Window | Lei Kong on trial for defamation
First of all we have to plead for your leniency on the untasteful title a la social realism, and for the very word leniency that usually ... -
Opinion | Rear Window – Legislative Assembly: Unexplained haircut
Beyond its functions and powers, the Basic Law gives the Legislative, within an Executive-led system, the role of the president, so much so we dare to ... -
Rear Window | Gang of nine vs Sulu Sou
Severo Portela If the Legislative Assembly members were only about establishing it as a space of free speech, no matter how spirited or spicy the exchanges ... -
Rear Window | Killing me softly
If it were a fictional protagonist of a tragedy characterized as sensitive and prone to meek hysterics… this persona, being the judicial system, would shout: they ... -
Rear Window | Rumor-mongers on the watch list
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 ... -
Rear Window | Game of Appeals: Caution and tact highly recommended
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 ... -
Rear Window | Driving woes
Today we would like to lighten up your usual Legco and Courts column with a social affairs theme: cars, cars and cars. A little will be… ... -
Rear Window | Presumed guilty
First things first; we should begin with an unequivocal disclaimer of not having any suspicion, no shadow of a doubt at all, of the full independence ... -
Rear Window | David vs Goliath
The repeated biblical story of how the underdog David came to beat the mighty Goliath is a good metaphor for improbable victories as well as a ... -
Rear Window | Jumping into the crowd
We would like to be able to say that out of the blue, the Legislative Assembly took the bold step to recommend to the MSAR government ...
