Aidyn Fitzpatrick (they/them) | Managing Editor

Aidyn Fitzpatrick

Born in Hong Kong and educated at Christ Church, Oxford, Aidyn has had a lifelong love of Macao and a varied career in journalism and communications. Before joining Macao News, they were the Asia Managing Editor of Time magazine. In previous roles, Aidyn has been a copywriter at the ad agency Leo Burnett; a senior consultant at the Capital Group, one of Australia’s leading corporate communications consultancies; and was the London-based Pan-European Communications Director of the Hong Kong Tourism Board. Their poetry has appeared in VS: 12 Hong Kong Poets (Big Weather Press, 1992), City Voices: Hong Kong Writing in English, 1945 to the Present (HKU Press, 2003), and Voice and Verse (2022). Follow them on Instagram: @aidyn__fitzpatrick.

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A Vencedora's Lam Kok Lon pauses for a reflective moment before the rush of dinner service begins

These are photographs from the last ever dinner service at A Vencedora

The closure of one of Macao’s oldest restaurants has saddened not only local diners but many visitors from all over the world who passed through its doors.

Generations International School Macao

The Finnish line: New approaches to education at Macao’s Generations International School

When they wanted a campus that promoted Macao’s cultural values, the founders of the city’s newest international school turned, unexpectedly, to the far north of Europe.

Northern Macao

True North: Images of Urban Macao

Skeptics may mock an official plan to promote tourism in northern Macao, but while the area isn’t pretty, it is – indisputably – the city’s heart.

Books on Macao

With World Book Day approaching, here are your 10 must-read volumes on Macao

The topic of Macao has generated a vast corpus of literature, but don’t be daunted. Start, instead, with any one of these scintillating texts.