"The New Macao Is Like Phoenix"

"An era is ending and old Macao is dying. You can smell the death in the hot summer wind that blows like a furnace off the South China Sea. Once one of the seamiest settlements in Asia, old Macao is finished..."

Sarasota Herald-Tribune 16.8.1981

"The round casino on the first floor of the Lisboa Hotel here is always packed with gamblers. Chinese grandmothers in silk pajamas shuffle across the floor in low- heeled mules carrying green and red plastic bowls filled with pataca (...)"

The Phoenix 21.4.1982