Snapshots of daily life as city fights COVID-19

The Macau Customs Service said in a statement yesterday that while patrolling the northern district yesterday morning, customs officials arrested a local woman who was found to be carrying eight freshly slaughtered chickens.The case came hard on the heels of the government’s announcement of a temporary ban on the sale of live poultry locally after inspectors discovered the H7-type avian influenza in an environmental sample at Iao Hon Municipal Market on Wednesday.According to the statement,

Exploring Ray Bradbury’s Marionettes IncIf you had an opportunity to create a lifelike robotic clone of yourself that would allow you to escape someone or something that makes you unhappy, would you take it?This is an idea that American author and screenwriter Ray Bradbury* incorporated in his 1949 short story, Marionettes Inc., a personal favourite that I highly recommend.The story starts with a conversation between two men of about thirty-five, Braling and Smith, who were walking home after