Tag: Rear Window
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Rear Window | Special dividend
Out of the blue, or at least through an unannounced decision made quietly and carefully, Chui Sai On changed the policy of making any MSAR Chief ... -
Rear Window | There is always room for improvement
“There is always room for improvement” is a well-known educational motivator, and rather acceptable paternalistic driver, but also, and unfortunately, one of the more annoying clichés ... -
Rear Window | Soft targets
Democrats gathered under the current leadership of the New Macau Association (better known by its Portuguese acronym ANM) really do look like they have digested the ... -
Rear Window | Another walk in the park
The Chief Executive’s regular visit to the Legislative Assembly, for a three-hour long question and answer session, appears to have been a walk in the park… ... -
Rear Window | Pandora’s Box
We have to admit that as far as symbols go, Pandora’s Box – a million problems caused by an unwise interference that is hard to forestall ... -
Rear Window | Brexit side effects
At heart, nobody believed the outcome of the London calling would be to abandon the European Union. Of course people know one way or another the ... -
Rear Window | The art of the superfluous
In order to balance the above mentioned decorative (superfluous) proposition as we have selected to title today’s column, we dare to turn to no-frills material… presented ... -
Rear Window | With a little help from Taishan
Probably… they (the government) did not see it coming. But they (the government) would do better to start adapting to civil society’s growing awareness of the ... -
Rear Window | High degree of complacency
Zhang Dejiang’s recent visit to Hong Kong was, as the saying goes, one of sticks and carrots, but with a twist: the stick sounded loud and ... -
Rear Window | Five years to upgrade Macau
Macau’s first five-year plan is out and open to public debate and suggestions during the so-called consultation period. This is a superbly ambitious and comprehensive roadmap ... -
Rear Window | Coloane redux
MSAR government has always been confident to be on the side of those who pledge to protect Coloane as a nature safe haven, as an ecological ... -
Rear Window | Big cat a mouse click away
As Macau population came to the final stage of its peculiar mode to handle ´difficult situations´ in the detention of former Prosecutor-general Ho Chio Meng, another ... -
Rear Window | Of tigers and flies
Apparently maverick lawmaker Pereira Coutinho was one of the few MSAR public figures to comment about the detention of former Prosecutor Ho Chio Meng as being ... -
Rear Window | Now you see me, now you don´t
Once again no pasa nada Macau SAR [where nothing happens] is shaken by the detainment of a high-ranking and high-profile official for corruption. Like a recurrent ... -
Rear Window | Lotus vs Bauhinia
Apparently, the opening schedule of the bridge over the Pearl River Delta has been compromised by a set of defective pillars, thus delaying the long dreamed ... -
Rear Window | Au makes his move
For the New Macau Association leadership and one of its veteran founders, it’s definitely an “auf wiedersehen!” The departure of Au Kam San came as no ... -
Rear Window | Monsignor Stephen Lee
1. Unexpectedly the Bishop, who is almost 70 and is now known to have been dealing with some health issues and undergoing medical treatment, tended his ... -
Rear Window | Iceberg
In the aftermath of the so-called Dore heist, the Secretary for Economy and Finance and the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau imposed stricter accounting rules on ... -
Rear Window | The Theory of Everything
As the low-budget season comes to its end, we guess it is the appropriate time to try pinpointing the trends that made 2015 different enough to ... -
Rear Window | Filtering optimism
If not for the motto we selected today as a title for our column, we would dare to claim that a small revolution is taking place ... -
Rear Window | An official position
Besides the commonly applied superlatives giving the enclave its singular profile – trivia, such as cars inch by inch or the squeeze of people sharing space, ... -
Rear Window | 400 blows
Macau Special Administrative Region maverick lawmaker, José Pereira Coutinho, was around 400 votes short of landing a seat in the Portuguese parliament. With few expectations, Coutinho ... -
Rear Window | Slow cooking recipes
It is often hard to explain to gambling “Impresarios” that the game has changed for good… in such a definitive way they have to adapt themselves ... -
Rear Window | Junket to junk
Video footage showing a gamblers’ brawl allegedly in one of the casinos got attention on social media. It seemed to be more a nervous “quid pro ... -
Rear Window | Side effects
Amidst a serious decline in gaming revenue, ‘all’ Macau is waiting for the soon to be disclosed mid-term review of the casino industry. Understandably, given the ... -
Rear Window | Coping with the facts
China’s Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses were hardly hit by capitalism’s core nemesis: the stock market crash! Although, more than a few liberal onlookers see the seismological ... -
Rear Window | Gaming shift
It is difficult to imagine a day in Macau without gaming. The importance of the casino business is such that nobody has the luxury to live ... -
Rear Window | Typhoon season
High summer in Macau comes with unbearable humidity, gales and tropical showers, and a series of typhoons. But daily news and public affairs do not have ... -
Rear Window | Smoke curtain
Who could have guessed that the smoking ban in casinos would return to haunt gaming operators? Given, of course, the much more relevant issues the industry ... -
Rear Window | Swinging trains
Legislator, entrepreneur and prominent local Fujianese leader, Chan Meng Kam, had a very good week…in spite of an alleged electoral corruption court case running against alleged ... -
Rear Window | Still room for improvement
As the dust settles in the aftermath of the unpredictable May Day civil and industrial actions, at least partly, Macau dares to read the new trends ... -
Rear Window | May power
Inspired by the slogan that proclaims “Only Macau is Macau”, we are ready to believe this presumed uniqueness and stubborn localism refers to everything going on ... -
Rear Window | Idle cash
Conventional wisdom tells us that Macau people are eager to brag about the standard of the services provided by its utilities, or at least admit a ... -
Rear Window | Minimum understanding
Previously, we addressed in this column the local reading of the new normal. Each Secretary of MSAR Government simply manages their portfolio at the micro level. ... -
Rear Window: New normal
Who would anticipate that tourism itself might actually occupy the central stage in the run-up to the March meetings of the NPC and the CPPCC in ...
