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 reserve - or with

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 high-profile case hit the

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 no surprise at all.

Rear Window | Now you see me, now you don´t

Once again no pasa nada Macau SAR is  shaken by the detainment of a high-ranking and high-profile official for corruption. Like a recurrent curse brought by the downfall and

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 connectivity between the SARs

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 surprise, given the differences

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 resignation as the head

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 junket operators in a

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 be remembered as a

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 in the MSAR’s troubled

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, air and water, GDP

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 dared to run as

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 to the new reality…for

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 quo” than a good

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 cooling measures blowing in

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 activity as a normal

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 in ignorance, especially, in

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 a so-called ‘silly season’.

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 is now facing, like

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 members of the civic

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