FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho
Macau,
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 in the
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 he is
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 are usually
These first days of 2017 have been eventful and sufficiently dramatic – I cannot offer a more interesting choice of words - to guess, to anticipate a tough
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 are steadily
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 from the matrix
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 to equal in
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 line of narrative common
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, has unlimited potential, so
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 Assembly-based democrats, to the
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 Executive official visit a
“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 pervading the MSAR political
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 lessons learned from the
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… once again. The format
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 - is combative and
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 nature of a referendum
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 in the pulp fiction
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 so-called green agenda. So
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 clear and ready to
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 as it gives both
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