New mindset
Plataforma - Macau - 18/08/2020
In 2017, Macau became the “City of Gastronomy”. This is the third city in China to receive this honor. However, a Macau-based catering group, Future Bright Holdings reported that there is a loss of 110 million HKD in the first half of this year. What is the reason…
Mortgage the future or wash your hands?
Plataforma - Macau - 17/08/2020
We are a month away from the reopening of schools in Portugal and there are still many doubts about the next school year.
In “normal” years, parents, teachers and students already live with great nervousness the announcement of new routines. Now, this is the year of…
Taking care of the economy and taking care of health
Plataforma - Macau - 14/08/2020
Tourist visas for Macau reopen across China on September 23, the National Immigration Administration announced. Excellent news for the local economy, which needs it like bread for the mouth. China, which isolated Wuhan six months ago, is now showing signs of conscious…
Travel, turning or mirage times
Plataforma - Macau - 12/08/2020
Since today, August 12, Chinese authorities have been issuing individual and group visas to anyone who wants to enter Macau from Zhuhai. There, right next to Macau, around two million people live.
Many will be able to re-enter the special administrative region. It will…
Collaboration
Plataforma - Macau - 11/08/2020
A Japanese cargo ship stranded at the coast of Mauritius, leaking a large amount of fuel, causing an ecological disaster. The incident once again highlighted the destruction of the ecological environment by humans. A wrong decision can cause disaster.
After the incident…
Long live the King, down the monarchy
Plataforma - Macau - 10/08/2020
Admitting that real blood is not immune to the most basic feelings of a human being, it must not have been easy for Filipe to suggest / demand that his father Juan Carlos leave the country where he has always lived.
A well-educated son can hardly accept his mistresses…
Unsustainable political lightness
Plataforma - Macau - 07/08/2020
Whatever the geography, the horizon of the crisis is heavy. The economy stressed, surrendered to the covid-19, with devastating effects, but still poorly perceived. It is much worse than the subprime implosion in 2008; radically changes consumption and behavior, shakes all…
In the other's place
Plataforma - Macau - 06/08/2020
His name is Ameer and he’s an Afghan. He guides his life through the commitment to guarantee a better life for his two daughters.
Commitment, I say, assumed by those of descent. “Yours will be better than mine” is transversal to ethnic groups, tribes, countries…
Career Planning
Plataforma - Macau - 04/08/2020
A survey, recently, in Macau found that only 15% of Macao middle school students have a clear career plan.
The values of the new generation of Macau will play an important role in the development of Macau’s future, in the coming decades. To quote Chairman…
When two elephants fight … who suffers?
Plataforma - Macau - 03/08/2020
An old African saying says that “when two elephants fight, the grass suffers” … the grass, or the lawn, depending on the country where they will be reading. And the planet is watching, at this point, a struggle between the two largest economies in the…