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 [...]
Chief Executive (CE) Mr. Edmund Ho will complete his second and final term in 14 months, and a new CE will be selected by June or July or August of next year. Nevertheless, the eyes of the public – and those of other politicians – will be focused on the new CE candidates much earlier in the coming year. They will follow the selection process as it unfolds, paying close attention to the political background, ideology [...]
Certainly, many of us have heard about how the local government is willing to “further develop Macau’s Creative Industries,” yet few have seen these words put into practice as concrete cultural policies. Instead, according to Chief Executive Edmund Ho, the Government implemented its own idea and declared the St. Lazarus District the testing ground for the project. In response to this initiative, local legislator and Executive Council member Leong Heng Teng gathered together a group of people in 2004 to form the “Creative Industries Promotion Association of the St. Lazarus Church District” (CIPA). For the last four years the association has been preparing itself to meet the expectations of both the [...]
In a speech delivered on August 27 at the Taubman Asia headquarters in Hong Kong, the company’s president, Morgan Parker, revealed the high-end retailers already pledging to house flagship stores in the shopping centre at Macau Studio City, scheduled to open on the Cotai Strip in 2011. The list is enough to make any [...]
Three years after the US Treasury Department fingered Macau’s Delta Asia Bank (BDA) for sanctions [...]
