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War without an end

War without an end

After conceding that drug use and trafficking is raging in the city the Macau government has ramped up its anti-drug campaign, but it appears to be fighting a losing battle.

FIRST, a quick tour of the drug-addicted side of your city. Please proceed to the north of Macau into the heart of the city’s hard-drug culture. There, huddled in Triangle Garden are a handful of addicts gathering for their afternoon heroin hit. The paraphernalia of injecting drug users - syringes and spoons - placed on the ground. [...]

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universal appeal

Universal Appeal

After months of dealing with licensing issues, construction delays, rumours and misinformation, Univeral Yoga has finally opened, offering an extensive range of classes and a tranquil retreat for meditation and harmony. [...]

Arts

Macau’s Storytellers

Local independent film makers shoot together in Macau.

As more and more foreigners turn their eyes toward Macau for its legendary entertainment sector, featuring tourism and gambling businesses, local people realise that the images representing Macau as the Las Vegas of the East are often [...]

Looking for the Idiot Inside of You…

They are street performers, directors, teachers, writers and producers. They believe in education through the theatre and arts from an early age, and stand for performances accessible to everyone, that talk about everyone’s lives. Above all, Kami and Chad Leslie are idiots and proudly so. Closer finds out why… [...]

Dream Journeys

Cirque du Soleil storylines are characteristically ambiguous leaving the audience to use their imaginations to fill in the details. Writer Gilles Maheu explains to Closer his inspirations for the tale of Zaia. [...]

Cars

2008 Honda Accord

Bigger, better, bolder

Already a leader in the mid-size car market, the 2008 Accord is bigger and better than ever, with a slick new look and groundbreaking engine technology.

Remember the early Honda Accords of the 1980’s? Small, compact sedans and hatchbacks, you could almost say were cute. And then there were the more recent versions, solid, reliable but admittedly a little bland to look at. One glimpse of the new 2008 Honda Accord however, and it’s very clear that all those traits are a thing of the [...]

Opinion

Training Younger Political Talents for Macau

Training Younger Political Talents for Macau

The current discussions on Macau’s electoral reform appear to focus on the technical changes surrounding the election arrangements—a positive phenomenon which however perhaps neglects a crucial matter of how the local Macau people can be encouraged to participate in political and social affairs. The recent appeals made by some mainland officials to Macau to rejuvenate the patriotic elite have not been adequately addressed by a series of electoral reforms formulated by the Macau [...]

Editor's note

Drugs for Reflection

By Nuno Mendonça.