Tag: Rear Window
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Rear Window | Executive privilege
Once again, Chief Executive Chui Sai On left the government building for Nam Van Lake’s Legislative Assembly to take part in a plenary session called to ... -
Rear Window | They are all birds of a feather
It is no wonder that in such a small place like Macau – truly, any small place real or otherwise – rumor, gossip, bad information or ... -
Rear Window | Unstoppable machine
Given the lousy days rolling on the MSAR, we guess the mood within the unbreakable New Macau Association (ANM) party… to not say ANM’s lot of ... -
Rear Window | Polishing the judiciary
Everyone saw it coming! The Secretary for Administration and Justice’s candid confirmation that the proposal to amend the MSAR judiciary law will or would prevent foreign ... -
Rear Window | Getting beyond Wynn fall
Suddenly… the barrage of claims of sexual misconduct that brought down conspicuous figures from politics, business and entertainment, starting from about last fall with Harvey Weinstein, ... -
Rear Window | What about Scott Chiang?
It looks like the Sulu Sou “affair” has come to a standstill! The Court of First Instance adjourned the trial (aggravated disobedience Sulu Sou/Scott Chiang) sine ... -
Rear Window | Sitting on the dock of the bay
The New Year is traditionally the time to set (or not) our own petty resolutions for improvements deemed to be important (to ourselves), and here we ... -
Rear Window | Four days in Beijing
It is understandable that we would take Chief Executive Chui Sai On’s early December visit to Beijing to be nothing more than routine, although highly formal, ... -
Rear Window | Authority report
To make good use of the accurate Monday morning quarterback predictions we would say it was an easy guess to foresee that Wong Sio Chak’s day ... -
Rear Window | Sulu Sou game changer
Sulu Sou took no time in looking around and warming himself to the technicalities and subtleties – if we are to term it “protocol”- of the ... -
Rear Window | Stop making sense
Once again the Legislative Assembly killed the trade union bill on the first reading…if we are allowed to borrow from an inspired spaghetti-western style book to ... -
Rear Window | How to wear two or more hats
Regardless of status, or anything else, everybody belongs to a community, either large or as small as the Macau Special Administrative Region, has to play many ... -
Rear Window | Blind Runner
Sometimes it seems as if Macau will not allow itself a break, or an interval of nothing happening. It is as if the MSAR cannot stand ... -
Rear Window | Undermining itself
While the ripples of Hato disaster still dominate MSAR life… perhaps it is a convenient, if not an auspicious, occasion to address what prevents Macau from ... -
Rear Window | Smear tactics
Why we are not surprised a jot that the hyper-regulated campaign for the September 17th Legislative Elections could not limit itself to the realm of low ... -
Rear Window | Hato demanding accountability
Before anything else we ought to mourn for the people killed in the Typhoon Hato in the allegedly ill-prepared Macau. We underline as a disclaimer that ... -
Rear Window | Ignore the content
Almost nobody in good faith would doubt the diligence and seriousness with which the Electoral Affairs Commission for the Legislative Assembly Election – aka CAEAL – ... -
Rear Window | Dress code for all seasons
Departing Vong Hin Fai – as an appointed bencher and one soon to replace fellow lawmaker and lawyer Leonel Alves as the Professional Interests functional constituency ... -
Rear Window | Vexing Issues
1 – Here we go again with the four-yearly procedure to select, by universal suffrage, a 14-seat section of the 33-strong floor of the Legislative Assembly ... -
Rear Window | Conflicts of interest
Once again, veteran lawmaker Pereira Coutinho is running for a directly elected seat in the Legislative Assembly (AL), heading the New Hope list, better known by ... -
Rear Window | New Macau looking for a third-wave
Suddenly…in the run-up to the 2017 Legislative Assembly elections, Scott Chiang abandoned the top job at the New Macau Association (ANM), leaving local pro-democracy in the ... -
Rear Window | One Belt, One Road fascination
The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road – together The Initiative – attracted to Beijing nearly 70 countries and international organizations ... -
Rear Window | Unintended consequences
To the dismay of many a “mind your own business and nothing bad will happen to you” type of responsible citizen, political confrontation in the sister ... -
Rear Window | Festival of ideas
Trying to copy, rather borrow or emulate, from scenario-building methods in order to get a light reading on the immediate future in the Macau Special Administrative ... -
Rear Window | Lucky Number Seven
We are aware that once we are about to enter the popular narrative realm of a fairy tale, the tone is set to “once upon a ... -
Rear Window | La La Land
We perceive as good and sound the idea that 2017 will be the year best remembered both in Macau and Hong Kong for setbacks and erosion ... -
Rear Window | Flexible response
Jason Chao is no longer the VP of the pan-democrat umbrella organization NMA! Moreover, he is resigning as a member of the New Macau Association… but ... -
Rear Window | Bang on a can
It looks like this Year of the Rooster will be a noisy one in Macau! But do not let yourself be mystified by transformative things that ... -
Rear Window | Telling apart good and evil
These first days of 2017 have been eventful and sufficiently dramatic – I cannot offer a more interesting choice of words – to guess, to anticipate ... -
Rear Window | Dead calm
Macau is drifting again on a completely still, dead calm sea of an apparent no pasa nada general mood… apparent indeed. That is to say things ... -
Rear Window | Trouble in mind
In these trumped up times of simple-minded populism, we would rather like to begin with a quote borrowed from the Hong Kong Free Press, selected blindly ... -
Rear Window | Negative perfection
The charges brought up against the former Prosecutor General Ho Chio Meng seem to substantially and formally have the potential, if not to dwarf, at least ... -
Rear Window | Squaring the circle
Had we the phlegm of a frivolous und exotic glare while watching Hong Kong Legislative Council heating up, we could sort things out with an empty ... -
Rear Window | Best friends forever
Despite its origin being disputed…the well-known and eternal Taoist saying about giving fish, or teaching how to fish in order to satisfy or kill the hunger, ... -
Rear Window | Umbrellas in the House
It looks like a kind of swampy unease has been spreading among Macau civil society. And it has been affecting everybody, indeed, from the traditional Legislative ...
