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Ambrose So

“the Venetian should not concentrate on gambling”

SJM Director Ambrose So blames Venetian for the instability in the gambling market

SJM executive director Ambrose So, on fierce competition among casino operators and the most recent and controversial decisions of the local government.

There was recently a meeting between the government and the six [...]

Closer Look
Splashing it around

Splashing it around

The great government MOP 5000 giveaway is a drop in Macau’s budget surplus ocean,
but is it the best way to spend MOP 2.6 billion?

In his indiscriminate flinging of cash at Macau residents, no doubt Chief Executive Edmund Ho Hau-wah won many supporters. But for some the handout, that will cost MOP 2.6 billion, was a shameless spend [...]

Arts

Why did it take so long?

An International Art Fair in Hong Kong.

Top quality art from around the world was recently brought to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre for ART HK08. It was the first such [...]

A Perfect Sense of Balance

Chinese artist Li Wei, his art and the art market.

Hong Kong, one of the world’s most important financial centres, now ranks e. As the ‘shop window’ for China’s most desired contemporary art [...]

The dancing path of originality

J Lei at the Ox Warehouse.

In a society where the mainstream culture is dominated by the capitalistic idea of complacence, young people are encouraged to follow the path that everyone else chooses, in [...]

A performance of space

NY Photo Festival: Local photographer Edgar Martins among the prize winners.

Gaming
Six in the city

Six in the city

While the Macau government has attempted to apply the brakes to the region’s gaming industry, it seems the race between the existing six contenders has only just begun.

There was no hard sell necessary; just contented smiles all round. Quickly following Macau Chief Executive Edmund Ho Hauwah’s announcement in April of a host of measures aimed to cool the region’s gaming boom, it seemed clear that the six existing operators had just been handed [...]

Opinion
Breaking the News of a Tragedy

Breaking the News of a Tragedy

Agency producer Jonathan David was spending his holiday in China when he was suddenly rushed to the chaos and devastation in Sichuan. Here he gives his personal account about the contradictions of an excellent news story that thrives in death, loss and grief.

Right place, right time. I’d hurriedly been contacted by my news agency as the world was struggling to [...]

Editor's note

Tragedy and hope

By Nuno Mendonça.

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