Monthly Archives: May 2019
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Friday, May 24, 2019 – edition no. 3296
* Analysis | When to forget recycling and start reducing * Studio City’s Elēkrŏn to close this July * Just passing through * Health authority disinfects ... -
Gaming | Atlantic City casino earnings way down amid more competition
More casinos have meant less profit in Atlantic City since two gambling halls reopened last summer. Figures released Wednesday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming ... -
G2E Asia | Tourism chief says art, culture will one day drive visitors to Macau
Macau’s first large-scale art exhibition, Art Macao, is set to kick off June 6, aiming to expand the city’s local art scene, Helena de Senna Fernandes ... -
Per capita visitor spending down 15%
A 21% year-on-year increase in visitor arrivals during the first quarter of 2019 yielded a mere 3% increase in non-gaming spending in Macau, according to the ... -
Gaming | Junket king hatches plan to lure VIPs back to baccarat — in Vietnam
Macau’s biggest junket operator will open its own resort in Vietnam by year’s end, seeking growth elsewhere in Asia as an exodus of big-spending VIPs from ... -
MGM ends talks with Wynn about acquiring Boston casino
MGM Resorts International ended discussions with Wynn Resorts Ltd. about buying that company’s nearly finished casino outside Boston, saying it would focus on its existing Massachusetts ... -
Moody’s maintains Macau’s ‘Aa3’ rating
Moody’s Investors Service, an international credit rating agency, announced yesterday that it has confirmed the Macau SAR’s long-term issuer ratings at “Aa3” with a “stable” rating ... -
Legislative Assembly | HK, Singapore tougher on corruption than Macau, says Agnes Lam
Hong Kong and Singapore are much tougher on corruption than Macau, said lawmaker Agnes Lam yesterday at the Legislative Assembly (AL), citing relatively lenient punishments in ... -
Hengqin theme park to star ‘Hunger Games’ and ‘Twilight’
Some of Lionsgate’s most popular film franchises from “Hunger Games” to “Twilight” will be brought to life when the studio opens what it calls the world’s ... -
Sports | Macau GP confirms International Series cars will race
As the Times reported on March 4, the Macau Grand Prix Organizing Committee (MGPOC) has now confirmed that the 66th Macau Grand Prix to be held ... -
Uproar over ad with gay couple shows HK lags in LGBT rights
Two barefoot men dressed conservatively in dark suits stroll hand-in-hand on a beach, in a print advertisement that’s part of a new Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. ... -
Kyle Bass confident in bet against Hong Kong dollar
Kyle Bass, founder of Hayman Capital Management, said he’s shorting the Hong Kong dollar against the U.S. dollar to express his view that Hong Kong’s usable ... -
Hong Kong’s last governor calls extradition law ‘worst thing’ since 1997
Chris Patten said Hong Kong’s proposed extradition law would break China’s “one country, two systems” promise and risks undermining the territory’s rationale as an international trade ... -
Portugal plans to issue public debt in China
Portugal plans to issue bonds denominated in Chinese currency in the amount of 2 billion yuan or about 260 million euros, the Portuguese Secretary of State ... -
Opinion | Kicked in the Teeth by the British
When it comes to 5G-enabled smartphones, Britain is a pretty decent bellwether: It’s one of just five countries currently rolling out the new mobile standard. So ... -
BT drops new Huawei phones from 5G rollout
BT Group Plc won’t offer phones from Huawei Technologies Co. when it starts Britain’s first 5G mobile network next week, joining a growing list of wireless ... -
Japan carriers delay sale of new Huawei smartphones
Two Japanese mobile carriers said yesterday they are delaying the sale of new smartphones from Huawei as they confirm the safety of the Chinese products. Sales ... -
Trade | Beijing cuts taxes to spur chipmakers in face of US pressure
China is cutting taxes on its fledgling software and integrated circuit industries as U.S. export controls threaten to handicap Chinese tech companies. The Finance Ministry’s announcement ... -
Surveillance tycoons lose billions from threat of US sanctions
Escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing are wiping billions from the net worth of China’s richest surveillance tycoons. The billionaires behind Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. ... -
Taiwan navy holds drill amid China tensions
Taiwan’s navy held a major live-fire exercise yesterday off the island’s east coast in an area increasingly threatened by Chinese ships and planes. The drills are ... -
Indonesia | Six dead in riots; Widodo says he won’t tolerate unrest
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo yesterday that authorities have the volatile situation in the capital Jakarta under control after six people died in riots by supporters of ... -
N. Korea calls Biden ‘fool of low IQ’ over Kim criticism
North Korea has labeled Joe Biden a “fool of low IQ” and an “imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being” after the U.S. presidential ... -
Philippines | Duterte moves to forcibly send garbage back to Canada
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has moved to have truckloads of garbage that Filipino officials say were illegally shipped to the Philippines years ago be forcibly shipped ... -
USA | More Democrats seeking impeachment proceedings against Trump
More Democrats are calling — and more loudly — for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump after his latest defiance of Congress by blocking his former ... -
Offbeat | Washington is first state to allow composting of human bodies
Ashes to ashes, guts to dirt. Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation Tuesday making Washington the first state to approve composting as an alternative to burying or ... -
This Day in History | 1998 – Leaders welcome ‘yes’ vote for N Ireland
The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has welcomed the resounding “yes” vote in the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland, calling it “a day ... -
Phelps honored for honesty on mental health, helping others
While swimming to Olympic glory, Michael Phelps found comfort in the pool and quite a bit of angst out of it. His bout with depression reached ... -
Corruption | BeIN media group CEO charged in probe
The chief executive officer of media group beIN was handed preliminary charges of corruption as part of an investigation into the bidding process for the 2019 ... -
The Buzz | With Brad and Leo, Tarantino debuts a fairy tale in Cannes
Twenty-five years after premiering “Pulp Fiction” in Cannes, Quentin Tarantino returned to the French film festival with neither great vengeance nor furious anger but a gentler ... -
World briefs
CHINA is stepping up pressure on Boeing Co. as its airlines demand compensation for the grounding of 737 Max jetliners after fatal crashes in Ethiopia and ... -
New California sea dragon habitat is among world’s largest
At first glance, it looks like a branch of kelp, but then an eye moves among its leafy appendages, and ridges of tiny, translucent fins start ... -
Made in Macao | The complication of ‘thank you’
Cantonese is one of the hardest languages to learn because on top of the difficulty of reading Chinese characters, Cantonese speakers have been inventing more colloquial ... -
Thursday, May 23, 2019 – edition no. 3295
* Helena S. Fernandes | Art, culture will drive visitors to Macau * Agnes Lam | SAR’s soft on corruption * Luring VIPs back to baccarat ... -
‘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 ...
