Hong Heng Fai is a Macanese actor-turned-director whose feature debut just screened at the prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam. We discussed how his acting experience influences his filmmaking and the current state of the Macanese film industry.
COVID curbs in China are completely over, and after three years of lockups, Chinese travelers are eager to see the world again.
Alvin Chau, the 48-year-old former chair of Suncity Group, has been found guilty in a case centered around hundreds of billions worth of illegal bets. His high-profile case is the latest move in Beijingโs crackdown on Macauโs once-lucrative gambling industry.
โStories on the margins are good,โ says bestselling author Paul French. In his latest book, the novella "Strangers on the Praia," he tells the story of young Jewish women who fled Japanese-occupied Shanghai to Portuguese Macau, a city that represented for them one thing: hope.
Photo by Billy H.C. Kwok (Bloomberg/Getty Images) Macauโs casino-driven economy is in dire straits. If only it diversified when it had a chance. For the...
Macau might become richer than it already is from gambling revenues, because it is being given special treatment by the central government in Beijing. General Secretary Xรญ Jรฌnpรญng ไน ่ฟๅนณ visited Macau to mark the anniversary of the handover, and brought with him a series of policies to diversify Macauโs economy.
The 20th anniversary of Macau's handover from Portugal to China is today. On this occasion, we say โsaudadeโ โ a Portuguese word meaning intense longing for something absent. But poke around, as our correspondent did, and youโll find a city still connected with its romanticized past.
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The new restriction, which halves the daily limit on ATM withdrawals by people using mainland-issued China Union Pay bank cards, "follows the introduction by Beijing in recent months of a raft of measures to tackle massive outflows of capital," the South China Morning Post notes. "It is the first move to exert control over Union Pay transactions since a 2014 crackdown involving Union Pay point-of-service machines in the casino-dominated city, which is fighting hard to shake off its reputation as a center for hot money out of the mainland."