Daily Archives: Wednesday, May 22, 2019
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‘Top Meeting Hotels’ 2018 list revealed, Macau nowhere to be found
U.S.-based meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider Cvent yesterday released its annual list of “Top Meeting Hotels” for meetings and events worldwide, ranking the top meeting ... -
MGTO head expects tourist tax study to be concluded this year
The ongoing survey to study a tourist tax is only one of the three ways the tourism bureau can assess the feasibility of imposing a tourist ... -
G2E Asia | Daisy Ho: over-tourism an inevitable challenge
It is impossible for the Macau SAR not to face over-tourism due to the region’s limited land area, stated Daisy Ho, chairman and executive director of ... -
No consensus on what Japan gaming means for Macau
The integrated resort potential of Japan once again featured heavily at this year’s Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia, which yesterday held back-to-back sessions on the long-anticipated ... -
Survey finds Labor Day brought more people than business
A survey conducted by the Economic Bureau (DSE) has revealed that although the May 1 (Labor Day) holiday period brought more visitors to local businesses, they ... -
Consumer prices rise 2.77% in April
The Composite Consumer Price Index (CPI) for April 2019 has increased 2.77% year-on-year to reach 115.14, according to the latest information from the Statistics and Census ... -
Crime | Bus driver arrested after smuggling bird’s nest
Gongbei customs authorities have reportedly made a record seizure of bird’s nest. Yesterday, during an inspection of a bus entering Zhuhai through the Guangdong-Macau express lane ... -
50-meter tall building planned for Ilha Verde
The Urban Planning Council will discuss 21 draft plans tomorrow, including plans for a piece of land adjacent to Ilha Verde Hill. The land is 6,700 ... -
Roads need improvement, say local associations
After two near-fatal road accidents at two different road crossing facilities occurred on Sunday, leaving a 90-year-old and a teenager severely injured, several organizations have urged ... -
Journalist João Fernandes dies aged 81
Veteran journalist João Fernandes has died from an illness aged 81 in Lisbon, according to family sources quoted by Radio Macau yesterday. Fernandes was the founder ... -
Briefs | China prepares for typhoons in Pearl River valley
Flood control authorities warn that the Pearl River valley will face tough flood, drought and typhoon conditions this year. Precipitation along the drainage area of the ... -
Gastronomy | Cantonese cuisine fires up poverty alleviation opportunities
Dim sum, boiled shrimp, roast goose, bite-sized wontons and steamed spare ribs with pickled plums are all staples of Cantonese cuisine, one of the four major ... -
For many wealthy Brazilians, Portugal is becoming the new Miami
Brazilian entrepreneur Ricardo Bellino knows a good deal when he sees one. So after more than a decade living in Miami, he decided to move across ... -
Corporate Bits | Grand Coloane to hold green fair in June
Grand Coloane Resort is set to bring “Boa Vida All Things Green Fun Fair” in collaboration with Macao Green Environmental Protection Association on June 2. The ... -
Beijing faces new competition as Japan, India eye Sri Lanka port
India, Japan and Sri Lanka are weighing the development of a terminal at the bustling port of Colombo in a country that’s seen ongoing political controversies ... -
Jack Ma is selling cancer coverage for pennies a month
Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. employed about 1.4 million people to peddle policies last year. Yet it’s Jack Ma’s newest online disruptor that is stealing the ... -
Huawei: US controls have ‘no impact,’ talking to Google
The founder of Huawei expressed confidence Washington’s curbs on sales to the Chinese tech giant will have little impact and said yesterday it is discussing “emergency ... -
Ex-Philippine judge says she was held at Hong Kong airport
A former Philippine Supreme Court justice who once accused Chinese President Xi Jinping of crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court says she was barred ... -
Australia | Gov’t says it won’t break tax cut pledge
Australia’s newly reelected government said yesterday that its promise to slash income taxes might be delivered late but would not be broken as it seeks to ... -
New Zealand | Accused mosque shooter charged with terrorism
New Zealand police yesterday filed a terrorism charge against the man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch mosques. Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, was ... -
Indonesia| Official count shows Widodo reelected as leader
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has been elected for a second term, official results showed, in a victory over a would-be strongman who aligned himself with Islamic ... -
Gulf tensions | Bomb-carrying drone from Yemen rebels targets Saudi airport
Yemen’s Iranian-allied Houthi rebels said yesterday they attacked a Saudi airport and military base with a bomb-laden drone, an assault acknowledged by the kingdom as Mideast ... -
Syria | Gov’t documents show reach of Assad’s agencies
Thousands of documents found in abandoned Syrian government offices during the country’s civil war reveal the reach of President Bashar Assad’s shadowy security agencies that sought ... -
Offbeat | Parents forget newborn baby in Hamburg taxi
New parents got the fright of their lives in Germany after accidentally forgetting their newborn in the taxi taking them home from hospital. Hamburg police said ... -
This Day in History | 1969 – Apollo 10 gets bird’s eye view of Moon
Two US astronauts aboard Apollo 10 are on their way back to the safety of their mother ship after their lunar module came to within eight ... -
Obituary | F1 great and aviation entrepreneur Niki Lauda dies at 70
Formula One great Niki Lauda, who won two of his world titles after a horrific crash that left him with serious burns and went on to ... -
World briefs
HONG KONG Former Philippine Supreme Court justice Conchita Carpio-Morales, who accused President Xi Jinping of crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court, said she was ... -
The Buzz | Germany to hand Israel thousands of Kafka confidant’s papers
German authorities are handing over to Israel some 5,000 documents kept by a confidant of Franz Kafka, a trove whose plight could have been plucked from ... -
Nigel Farage taps anger in UK’s Brexit-dominated EU election
No one in Britain is more enthusiastic about this week’s European Union elections than people who hate the EU. Hard-core Brexit supporters are chomping at the ... -
World Views | The new right is beating the new left. Everywhere
Sometimes political revolutions occur right before our eyes without us quite realizing it. I think that’s what’s been happening over the last few weeks around the ... -
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 – edition no. 3294
* MICE update | Macau absent in 2018 ‘Top Meeting Hotels’ * G2E Asia | No consensus on what Japan gaming will mean for Macau * ...
