Daily Archives: Wednesday, October 23, 2019
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Visitor arrivals reach 30 million as of September
Visitor arrivals totaled 2.76 million in September 2019, up by 8% year-on-year, according to the latest data from the government, bringing the total to over 30 ... -
MEMORY LANE
Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos De Macau, S.A.R.L., more commonly known as TCM, has been operating in the Macau SAR since 1974, following the inauguration of the ... -
Gaming | October revenue forecast revised on mid-month indicators
Brokerage Sanford C. Bernstein has revised its forecast for October gross gaming revenue upward by 3 percentage points. Analysts at the firm said they expect gaming ... -
Reinvestment is our priority: Sands execs
Sands China is looking at ways it can continue to help build Macau as a World Center for Leisure and Tourism, and its parent company, Las ... -
Health | Minor flu outbreak at Taipa school
Six Primary 2 students studying at the Affiliated School of the University of Macau have been infected with influenza and are now under treatment, but have ... -
Motorsports | Don’t count Sophia Flörsch out of this year’s Macau Grand Prix
German driver Sophia Flörsch’s participation in this year’s FIA Formula 3 World Cup race, to be held on the streets of Macau’s Guia Circuit, has not ... -
Exhibition promotes Guia Circuit through art
The Macau Guia Circuit Promotion and Development Association (APDCGM) is once again holding an art exhibition as part of the association’s activities, aiming to have Macau’s ... -
Higher education | Mutual degree recognition makes further study more convenient
The mutual recognition of tertiary education degrees between mainland China and Macau, and Portugal and Macau has the potential to make processes more convenient for students ... -
MUST to present Tong King Sing biography
The Research Center of Tong King Sing at the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) is preparing to undertake a biographical study into a specific ... -
Briefs | Lawmaker urges respect for cultural heritage relics
Lawmaker Ng Kuok Cheong has urged the local government to respect the religious and cultural background of heritage relics. In an interpellation written to the government ... -
Bank of China hosts exhibition of bank notes
All five sets of the renminbi notes that have ever been issued are currently on exhibition at the Macau Tower as part of a currency exhibition ... -
Extradition | Hong Kong, Taiwan struggle to separate politics from justice
The murder suspect whose case sits at the center of months of violent protests in Hong Kong is set to walk free today, as the city ... -
Guangzhou’s economy grew 6.9% in first three quarters
The gross domestic product of Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province, grew by 6.9% in the first nine months this year to reach more than ... -
Briefs | Handouts planned for flights and hotels
The Hong Kong government is planning to announce subsidies for airfares and hotels to help revive tourism in a city that’s been roiled by protests the ... -
Gaming | Hard Rock ponders buying hotel on Las Vegas Strip
W ith a $1.5 billion casino expansion opening tomorrow in Florida, Hard Rock International Inc. may soon be turning its attention to other markets. One option ... -
Aviation Gulfstream unveils G700 in race for world’s biggest private jet
Gulfstream is angling to reclaim bragging rights as builder of the world’s biggest private jet. The planemaker unveiled plans to make a roomier version of its ... -
Sands Resorts Macao announces festive offerings
Sands Resorts Macao will offer a range of celebrations, entertainment, accommodation and shopping offers plus dining for visitors from November 14, 2019 to January 10, 2020. ... -
MGM restaurants present variety of hairy crab delicacies
Imperial Court at MGM Macau and Chún at MGM Cotai are presenting a variety of creative hairy crab delicacies until November 30, made from premium hairy crabs ... -
Huawei lobbying spend hits record with hire of Trump fundraiser
Huawei Technologies Co.’s lobbying spending spiked in the third quarter as the Chinese telecom giant hired a fundraiser for President Donald Trump with deep ties to ... -
Tariff war | Trump says China signals trade talks on target for November deal
President Donald Trump said China has indicated that negotiations over an initial trade deal are advancing, raising expectations the nations’ leaders could sign an agreement at ... -
Companies are struggling to offload foreign acquisitions, from yachts to pizza
China Inc. is struggling to offload overseas businesses and the accompanying debt in an increasingly volatile market. In just a few weeks, companies from yacht makers ... -
Gov’t has a new plan for PRP industry: small-time lending
It was once a roughly $150 billion industry – an innovative marketplace where individuals could lend to each other. But after years of fraud, defaults and ... -
Naruhito takes throne as Japan’s first new emperor in 30 years
Japan completed the months-long coronation of Emperor Naruhito in an elaborate ceremony in Tokyo, as assembled global royalty and political leaders looked on. Clad in layers ... -
Bangladesh to start relocating some Rohingya to island soon
Authorities in Bangladesh said yesteday that they want to start relocating thousands of Rohingya refugees to a Bay of Bengal island soon from crammed camps near ... -
US diplomat drawn into Trump’s Ukraine effort set to testify
William Taylor has emerged as an unlikely central player in the events that are at the heart of the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. The ... -
This Day in History | 1956 Hungarians rise up against Soviet rule
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Hungary to demand an end to Soviet rule. There are believed to have been ... -
Offbeat | Television’s Weather Channel wades into climate debate
The Weather Channel is moving beyond cold fronts and heat waves to wade into the politics of climate change, with a special planned for early next ... -
Springsteen surprises moviegoers at film preview screenings
Bruce Springsteen surprised moviegoers by introducing his new concert film in his New Jersey hometown. The Asbury Park Press reports Springsteen introduced two showings of “Western ... -
Alexis Bledel is the most dangerous celebrity online
Actress Alexis Bledel has been bookish and sweet on “Gilmore Girls” and “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” But the actress herself is now officially dangerous. Cybersecurity ... -
Football | Beckham’s stadium complex for Inter Miami taking shape
Piles of steel sit at one end of the property, waiting to be lifted into place. Workers were going in all directions, some pounding nails into ... -
Asian soccer player of the year banned for five months
Asia’s reigning player of the year has been banned for five months for confronting a referee in the Asian Champions League semifinals. The Asian Football Confederation ... -
The Buzz | South Pole’s ozone hole shrinks to smallest since discovery
The ozone hole near the south pole this year is the smallest since it was discovered, but it is more due to freakish Antarctic weather than ... -
Louvre exhibit acclaims Da Vinci, 500 years after his death
Much about Leonardo Da Vinci remains an enigma: the smile of the “Mona Lisa”; why the world’s most famous painter left so many works unfinished; and ... -
World Briefs
PHILIPPINES President Rodrigo Duterte is cutting short his trip to Japan due to “unbearable pain” in his spinal column caused by his fall during a ... -
Macau Matters | A better way to make hydrogen
The Hazer group (www.hazergroup.com.au), a West Australian based technology company, is developing a much cheaper and more effective way to make hydrogen based on original research ...
