Macau as it braves COVID-19 outbreak

As usual, it was all play-eat-sleep-repeat for children over the summer holidays but this year was a bit different as deadly Typhoon Hato wrapped up the summer where children learnt to live without electricity and water for days.Not only children, but most other people in Macau experienced for the first time how having a shower was a luxury when the typhoon disrupted the city’s power and water supplies.Many residents went out to help clean up the mess Hato left, deliver water and food to

Commentary by Xin Ping*        The world had been holding breath for the historical San Francisco summit between President Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden that would pull back China-US relations from running further downhill and thus anchor the world. Given serious headwinds and back-to-back crises facing the world – the once-in-a-century pandemic, sluggish global economic recovery, and geopolitical flare-ups, hopes are high that the long-anticipated summit can help