Nine years, 70 billion patacas in government reserves. He led Macau through the SARS crisis, established the city as the world’s largest gaming destination, battled through public protests and corruption scandals and, occasionally, inspired. As Macau’s first chief executive Edmund Ho Hau-wah’s second and final term in office comes to an end, the city as its residents once knew it is all but a distance [...]
Nine years after Macau’s historic handover from Portuguese to Chinese administration, the city has once again entered a critical phase of transition. In a little more than a year’s time, Chief Executive Edmund Ho must leave an office that he will have occupied for ten years. Still, the “leaving” is perhaps less of a daunting task than the “taking over”. Considering the current social discontent, expressed in a general atmosphere of complaint among citizens, we can imagine the next CE’s governance will certainly be no easy task. In an attempt to give an overall view on the issue, CLOSER prepared a series of questions [...]
