Daily Archives: Thursday, March 19, 2020
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The Latest: UK supermarkets impose limits amid panic buying
TOP OF THE HOUR: — EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has tested positive for coronavirus. — Cruise carrying 1,400 people docks in French port city ... -
MGM Cotai employee tests negative for virus
An employee of a Cotai integrated resort who developed a fever yesterday morning has tested negative for the coronavirus. The employee, who works at the MGM ... -
Mission accomplished: All Hubei evacuees clear of Covid-19
The local government has announced that all 57 people who were evacuated by the Macau government from the central Chinese province of Hubei earlier this month ... -
Three new Covid-19 cases within one night in Macau
The city’s medical staff saw three new Covid-19 cases in a single night yesterday. The latest case is the youngest of all Covid-19 patients in Macau. ... -
Pearl Horizon pre-buyers change strategy to voice opinions
Former buyers of the failed Pearl Horizon project have not given up on fighting for their interests. They have continued to express their demands to the ... -
Briefs | Five arrested for drug trafficking
Four Hong Kong residents and one Macau local resident have been arrested for drug trafficking, according to the Judiciary Police (PJ). The five arrestees were ... -
Gov’t blocks proposal to add ‘PRC feature’ to Macau ID card
The Identification Department has declined a proposal to add “the People’s Republic of China” to Macau identification cards. This was expressed in the bureau’s written reply ... -
Seven new Covid-19 cases within this week
Within this week, Macau has seen seven new confirmed cases of Covid-19, all imported from outside the territory, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Center announced ... -
Non-resident workers barred from entering Macau
The latest border control measure from the government will restrict entry to the Macau SAR for all non-resident workers except those who are residents of mainland ... -
Freedom of the press | Expelled American reporters barred from working in Macau
China said yesterday it will revoke the media credentials of all American journalists at three major U.S. news organizations, in effect expelling them from the country, ... -
Universities to resume with final year students prioritized
Six local higher education institutions are to resume classes on April 1, the head of the Department for Tertiary Education Institution Coordination of the Higher Education ... -
Lawmaker wants update on work instructions for extreme weather events
Lawmaker Ella Lei wrote an interpellation to the local government asking about the progress of regulations on work instructions during extreme weather. She posed the question ... -
Coronavirus rocks already strained ties between US and China
Badly strained ties between the United States and China are deteriorating further with the two sides hurling harsh accusations and bitter name-calling over responsibility for the ... -
North Korea | Kim admits troubled medical system amid virus fears
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un acknowledged that his country lacks modern medical facilities and called for urgent improvements, state media said yesterday, in a rare ... -
Philippines | Officials lift deadline for foreigners to leave north
The Philippines lifted a deadline for thousands of foreign travelers to leave the northern third of the country, including the capital, after quarantining the region due ... -
This Day in History | 1970 – Willi and Willy meet in East Germany
The leaders of East and West Germany have met for the first time since the country was divided in 1949. About 2,000 young East Germans greeted ... -
Pandemic | Traffic piles up in Europe as virus lockdowns close borders
Desperate travelers in cars and trucks choked European borders on Wednesday, creating traffic jams up to 17 miles long as they sought to get back home ... -
The Art of Giving | Modern philanthropy and the great disruption
We are living in the times of great disruption. Yesterday the world was identifying a set of pressing global challenges such as climate change, reskilling, blockchain, ... -
Time spent streaming spiked 20% worldwide this past weekend
For years, TV executives have fretted there is too much TV. Now, with the coronavirus looming large, they are worried there might not be enough. Because ... -
TENNIS | Virus forces French Open delay; US Open switch ‘possibility’
The French Open was postponed for about four months because of the coronavirus pandemic, shifting from May to September and juggling the tennis calendar. The French ... -
The Buzz | Facebook bug wrongly deleted authentic coronavirus news
Facebook said a bug in its anti-spam system temporarily blocked the publication of links to news stories about the coronavirus. Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president of ... -
Sex workers face ruin amid virus fears, brothel closures
It’s 7 p.m. on a Friday night, a time when Aurel Johannes Marx’s three-room brothel on the edge of Berlin would normally be preparing for its ... -
World Briefs
NORTH KOREAN leader Kim Jong Un acknowledged that his country lacks modern medical facilities and called for urgent improvements in a rare assessment of the North’s ... -
World Views | Big business has all the advantages in the pandemic
Even if fiscal stimulus is successful in getting the U.S. economy back on stable ground after the Covid-19 crisis, the economy will inevitably be transformed. When ... -
Thursday, March 19, 2020 – edition no. 3496
* US-China relations strained by press spat * Non-Chinese foreign workers barred as seven new cases seen in less than one week * The gov’t ... -
Two more cases reported Thursday morning; tally at 17
In the early hours of this morning, two new Covid-19 cases were suddenly reported. The first case involves a 19-year-old female resident who studies in the ...
