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Multibillion-dollar Macau: a city of glitz and grit
Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro

Multibillion-dollar Macau: a city of glitz and grit

Macau is set to become the world’s richest place by 2020 – but with billion-dollar skyscrapers standing beside rundown apartment blocks, it’s clear not everyone is benefiting

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Created
Mar 23, 2019
Updated
Feb 08, 2022
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#Macao #China #Poverty #Inequality #Casinos #Gambling #Glitz #Grit

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Macau’s luxury buildings
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An apartment building and the 13 skyscraper
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‘To build a hotel like this in a residential area seems strange,’ says Daniel Yan
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Part of the 13 hotel’s fleet of bespoke Rolls-Royce Phantoms
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Rundown neighborhoods contrast with the glitzy Grand Lisboa hotel on Macau’s skyline
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Rundown neighborhoods contrast with the glitzy Grand Lisboa hotel on Macau’s skyline
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Rundown neighborhoods in Macau
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Rundown neighborhoods in Macau
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Dilapidated urban housing
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Dilapidated urban housing in Iao Hon
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Dilapidated urban housing in Iao Hon
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Dilapidated urban housing in Iao Hon
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Dilapidated urban housing
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Dilapidated urban housing in Horta e Costa neighborhood
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Ratna Khaleesy, 39, is a muslim Indonesian woman living and working in precarious conditions in Macau, one of the richest cities in the world. She is a migrant worker who is employed as a domestic helper for a local Chinese.
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Inside the apartment building in which migrant workers live
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Ratna Khaleesy and Roy Wardha
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Hoi Kwan in the apartment she shares with her children
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A cardboard collector in Macau
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A cardboard collector in Macau
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