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May 1, 1998. This was the day when the war against the triads terrorising Macau reached its climax. In the morning, a car bomb destroyed the vehicle of Police Chief Marques Baptista, while he was jogging on Guia Hill. Later that day, the police chief led a group of heavily armed policemen into Casino Lisboa and arrested the confessed leader of the most powerful criminal organisation in Macau, Wan Kuok Koi. He was in a restaurant, brazenly watching a self-produced movie about his own [...]
He was the most high-profile victim of 90s-era triad warfare in Macau. Manuel Antonio Apolinário, then a Lieutenant-Colonel and deputy director of Macau’s gambling inspectorate, was shot twice at point-blank range in the face [...]
This August, Beijing has the opportunity to show the world a glimpse of historic Portugal, letting curious spectators wonder what could have brought these men with capes of straw from the countryside to their corner of the world and what [...]
Just as it is everywhere else, the year in Macau and Hong Kong is composed of 12 months. The difference being that here, one of them is actually reserved especially for the French culture. This month that we call “French May” has in fact a long history in the region. In 2008 this arts festival celebrates its 16th anniversary, and a long list of cultural activities make up the [...]
Since its opening in November of last year, the gallery at St. Paul’s Fine Art has been offering us exhibitions by various artists from Macau. In its attempt to create a base for the local art market, the association Art for All (AFA ) is committing itself not only to organising events in the gallery [...]
It has been twenty years since John* lived in Macau and he has no plans to ever return. The 34-year-old suffers nightmares and still has trouble sleeping. He hears children crying, sees their anguished faces and remembers all too well their unanswered pleas for help. “It is a part of my history that I would much rather forget, but it is one of those things that I will never be able to forget,” John explains. [...]
Elite politics in Macau has undergone significant changes since the territory’s administrative right was returned from Portugal to China in December 1999. Before the retrocession of Macau, elite politics in the Portuguese administrative territory was dominated by a powerful pro-Beijing or patriotic force, an influential Portuguese elite, and a relatively powerless pro-democracy camp. The dominance of the patriotic forces was attributable to the 1966 riot when the Portuguese administration issued [...]
