My most recent column in Macau Closer magazine (#183) is on Charles A Gunnison’s rather forgotten short story In Macao. Published in 1892 it partly dramatises and recalls the mercurial American writer and publisher Gunnison’s visit to the Portuguese colony in the 1880s….

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With the ‘W’ I assumed it was owned by Wynn hotels, but looked it up and no, it’s Chevalier who are the owners, what were they on when they named this?

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Dad of two stroppy, sullen, opinionated, teenage boys. Feel like I'm losing touch with them. Last night one couldn't sleep, so joined me. A few mins later he reached out and held my hand and went to sleep. I lay there streaming silent tears, treasuring the moment.

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Wofl!

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I think this is at least partly the consequence of GovHK's declaration in 2020 that the Basic Law provides no separation of powers that traditionally impose accountability. GovHK replaced that with a system in which GovHK is accountable only to the CE (who is only accountable to Beijing). 2/2

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