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CGTN Frangais documentary portrait — Sean Own on building cultural bridges from Macao
Press

The Creative World of Sean Own

CGTN Français profiles the Taiwanese entrepreneur who settled in Macao in 2013 and now builds cultural bridges — Taïwanais à Macao, Episode 3. A French-language broadcast reaching viewers across Europe and Africa, tagged to the 25th anniversary of the handover.

Macao delegation on the LED stage of the 'Black Myth: Wukong' immersive theatre at the China Academy of Art, May 2025
Culture

When a Videogame Becomes Cultural Diplomacy

Why a videogame exhibition, a city-wide animation festival and a West Lake night cruise may matter more to Macao than any contract signed on the trip.

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Macau delegation at a new private research university founded in 2018, May 2025
Delegation

A Research University, Built From Scratch

A morning with the scientists rebuilding the Chinese research university from scratch — and an evening light show that explains why Hangzhou always wins.

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Macau delegation at the Wensli silk headquarters and a leading e-commerce operator, May 2025
Delegation

A Thousand Brands, One Operating Partner

How a five-person agency became the operating partner for a thousand new Chinese brands — and what 11,000 years of silk taught a digital print line.

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Macau delegation at the Idea Union experience-design studio on China's innovation corridor, May 2025
Delegation

Six Little Dragons & the Experience Economy

The morning took the delegation through the city-spanning dragon corridor. The afternoon slowed down with the designers of China's experience economy.

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Macau delegation at the opening of a new-retail inspection tour, studying a SaaS unicorn building China's retail rails, May 2025
Delegation

New Retail's Hidden Operating System

Arrival, opening ceremony and a first stop at a SaaS unicorn building the rails for China's new retail. What stood out was not the product — it was the discipline.

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A gold-coin and antique-book sphere wrapped by a luminous ring — the cover image for an essay on the meeting of capital, culture and civilisation
Insights

When Capital Meets Culture, How Does a Civilisation Answer?

A morning at UNU Macau, listening to Professor Wang Defeng on Culture East, Culture West. On capital that forgets its place, culture that earns the right to speak by self-critique, and a civilisation that knows when to stop.

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Gold Macau skyline silhouette on a deep-blue backdrop — cover for an English essay on Macao's third Five-Year Plan, with a rising graph arrow and connected nodes for the city moving from gaming to diversified industry
Insights

From One Industry to Many: Macao's Third Five-Year Plan

The plan published 18 August — 86,000 characters, a binding 60% non-gaming GDP target, and MOP 130bn committed. The number that actually matters in 2031 is the one nobody put on paper.

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Straight Talk — three short notes from Sean Own on attention, the strait, and Macau as the doorway for Chinese culture going global
Insights

Straight Talk: Three Things I Keep Saying

Attention is the only currency that compounds. Youth crosses the strait faster than any institution. Macau is the doorway for Chinese culture going global. Three short notes from the President's column.

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"You're not late to go global. You're early."
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