Daily Archives: Friday, April 5, 2019
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Aviation | Two new routes to launch at Macau Int’l Airport this quarter
Two new routes, including a direct flight from Muan, South Korea to Macau launching this month, are expected in the second quarter says Eric Fong, director ... -
Back in business | Paulo Taipa lands new job in Portuguese government
Legal veteran Paulo Taipa, who until the end of the last year was a long-standing advisor to Macau’s Legislative Assembly (AL), has been hired to a ... -
Gaming | Genting and Sands pledge USD6.7 billion for Singapore casinos
Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Genting Singapore Ltd. pledged to invest SGD9 billion (USD6.7 billion) in tourist attractions in Singapore, which extended their exclusive licenses to ... -
UN identifies need for anti-torture training
In the latest evaluation of the Macau SAR by the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) of the implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other ... -
Transportation | Delta bridge leads to 4 percent increase in Transmac business
The opening of the Hong Kong- Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HKZMB) resulted in a 4 percent increase in Transmac’s passenger volume, the Transmac president said yesterday during a ... -
Retirement fund | Deficit climbs to MOP1.2 billion
The Provident Fund for Workers in Public Services (FP) has recorded a deficit for the fourth consecutive year. However, lawmaker Mak Soi Kun, who is also ... -
COURTS | TSI backs Fong Soi Kun in dismissal case
The Court of Second Instance (TSI) has ruled in favor of the former director of the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG), Fong Soi Kun, who appealed ... -
Cleaners, security guards | Overtime compensation only obstacle for minimum wage bill
According to the Legislative Assembly’s 2nd Standing Committee, the method for calculating overtime compensation is the only obstacle to the passing of a bill that seeks ... -
New urban renewal firm to receive MOP100 million capital injection
The Executive Council has completed discussions on the administrative regulation of establishing the government-owned Macau Urban Renovation Company, as announced yesterday during a press conference. The ... -
WTO approves Macau-HK free trade agreement
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has examined and approved the Hong Kong-Macau Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) to ensure that the free trade agreement signed under ... -
Three governments to stage Japan promotion
Macau, Hong Kong and China’s Guangdong Province will stage for the first time a joint overseas promotion in Japan on the Greater Bay Area, Hong Kong ... -
BOC to ease banking restrictions on Macau residents
The Macau government and the Bank of China (BOC) have signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation in the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. The ... -
Briefs | Greater Bay population expected to double by 2050
Economist Fan Gang predicts that by 2050, the Greater Bay Area will be home to 150 million people, almost double its current population. The mainland economist ... -
Real Estate Matters | Watch out for these red flags to avoid nightmare tenants
Sam Lee is a marketing manager and property consultant at JML Property. JML was established in 1994 and offers Investment Property & Homes. It specializes in ... -
Bankruptcy run in wealthy China province spooks creditors
A series of bankruptcy filings by major private-sector bond issuers in China’s third-wealthiest province is shining a spotlight on aggressive efforts by local governments to manage unsustainable ... -
Trade dispute | Chinese quitting canola addiction has Canadian farmers sweating
After getting China hooked on canola, Canadian growers of the oilseed are reeling from the Asian giant’s decision to cut imports. They’re standing pat, though, on ... -
Beijing has a problem with fake money: it looks too real to burn
China’s central bank had an odd warning yesterday: Please don’t burn fake yuan notes. Today, millions of Chinese will celebrate Qingming Festival, the tomb-sweeping holiday, holding ... -
The Australian store where everything sold is sent to China
At an Australia Post store in northern Sydney, there are almost no signs in English, the staff all speak Mandarin and anything bought there must be ... -
Japan | Nissan’s Ghosn arrested again in financial misconduct case
Tokyo prosecutors arrested Nissan’s former chairman Carlos Ghosn yesterday for a fourth time, cutting short his brief time outside detention. Ghosn and his lawyer protested against ... -
Malaysia | Gov’t urged to investigate police links to disappearances
Malaysia’s human rights commission has urged the government to reinvestigate the disappearances of a Christian pastor and a Muslim activist after a public inquiry concluded they ... -
Aviation tragedy | Preliminary report: Ethiopia crew followed Boeing procedures
The crew of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed six minutes after takeoff last month performed all procedures recommended by Boeing when the plane started to ... -
Twitter stops blocking French government’s ad campaign
Twitter has stopped blocking French government ads calling on people to vote after it came under fire from authorities for being overzealous in applying a law ... -
2.33 million air passengers in first quarter
The Macau International Airport (MIA) has served more passengers this past quarter compared to the same period last year, the airport noted. The airport handled 2.33 ... -
Offbeat | Lithuanian man flies alone on commercial plane to Italy
A Lithuanian man flying to Italy got a pleasant surprise when he boarded the plane: He was the only passenger on the Boeing 737-800. Skirmantas Strimaitis, ... -
This Day in History | 2001 – Driver jailed for immigrant deaths
A Dutch lorry driver has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his part in the deaths of 58 Chinese illegal immigrants. They were found ... -
Super Rugby | Lions lock in coach ahead of South African derby
Having secured an important part of their long-term future, the Johannesburg-based Lions can focus on a more immediate challenge when they face the Durban-based Sharks in ... -
Football | Great Pele hospitalized in Paris
Soccer great Pele was hospitalized in Paris yesterday because of a urinary infection following a meeting with Kylian Mbappe in the French capital, his spokesman said. ... -
World briefs
CHINA’s central bank had an odd warning yesterday: Please don’t burn fake yuan notes. Today, millions of Chinese will celebrate Qingming (Cheng Ming) Festival, the tomb-sweeping ... -
2.33 million air passengers in first quarter
T he Macau International Airport (MIA) has served more passengers this past quarter compared to the same period last year, the airport noted. The airport handled ... -
Timmothy | Police, FBI trying to verify teen is boy missing since 2011
Authorities conducted DNA testing to try to determine yesterday whether a teenager found wandering in Kentucky is who he claims to be — an Illinois boy ... -
Bizcuits | Environment: Not quite leaderless
In an unusually forthright utterance at MIECF last week, Antonio Trindade (CEO of CESL Asia) made the surprising statement that Macau lacks integrity in environmental leadership. ... -
Incentives for fools on Facebook
• Hundreds of ads on Facebook promised U.S. homeowners that they were eligible for huge state tax breaks if they installed new solar-energy panels. There was just ... -
‘Dumbo’ remake takes flight on its own charms
The original “Dumbo” was released in the summer of 1941 while Germany was spreading across Europe and war was breaking out in the Pacific. Crafted as ... -
Novel revisits culture wars, AIDS crisis
A deadly school shooting serves as a pivotal event in “The Spectators,” a novel that revisits American cultural wars and crises in the last decades of ... -
Gino Vannelli’s emotions carve up ‘Wilderness Road’
Looking for a jazzy follow- up to George Michael’s “Kissing a Fool”? Try Gino Vannelli’s “Gimme Back My Life.” It’s one of the standout tracks on ...
