Monthly Archives: March 2020
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Corporate Bits | MGM continues charity donations as part of relief measures
Dedicated to supporting local charity work in the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic, MGM has donated 45 temperature guns, along with hand sanitizers and other anti-epidemic ... -
Football | Juventus player Rugani tests positive for coronavirus pandemic
Italian soccer club Juventus announced yesterday [Macau time] that one of its players, defender Daniele Rugani, has tested positive for COVID-19. Rugani, who also plays for ... -
World briefs
CHINA Authorities have taken several people into custody as part of their investigation into the collapse of a coronavirus quarantine facility that killed 29 people. Officials ... -
The Buzz | Guides say China is shutting Everest due to virus fears
Expedition operators on Mount Everest said yesterday that Chinese mountaineering officials will not allow spring climbs from their side of the mountain due to fears of ... -
Pandemic | Locked out: Europeans grapple with new US travel ban
They had spent months planning their route, a 3,500-kilometer trans-America road trip, a voyage of a lifetime. Just when it was within touching distance, with a ... -
Editorial | Eight weeks
It’s eight weeks since the first contagion of the new virus was detected in Macau. Over this period the community has given a tremendous example to ... -
Friday, March 13, 2020 – edition no. 3492
* Pandemic | Health Bureau turns attention worldwide * A Shanghai quarantine | Local artist Drummond says isolation is ‘psychologically demanding’ but worth it * ... -
Corporate Bits | GEG co-launches scheme to encourage home exercise among children
To encourage local children, especially those with special education needs, to exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle amid the Covid-19 epidemic, Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) has ... -
Education regulator has plan to tackle parents’ school resumption concerns
Parents have the liberty of not sending their children back to school during the early stage of school resumption if they are worried about the potential ... -
Four residents admitted to quarantine after travel abroad
Two local residents were admitted to the Coloane Alto quarantine facility on Tuesday, Macau health authorities reported during yesterday’s daily press conference. The residents are husband ... -
Quarantine | Couple held in isolation share what it’s like inside
A couple that is currently in isolation at Coloane Alto’s Centro Clínico de Saúde Pública and whose case was reported during yesterday’s daily press conference of ... -
Mak Soi Kun wants awards for those on coronavirus frontline
Lawmaker Mak Soi Kun wants the government to award workers who participated in Macau’s work to contain the Covid-19 epidemic outbreak. In his interpellation to ... -
Crime | Casino cage worker arrested after five years on the run
A former casino cashier worker at a local property has been caught trying to enter Macau after five years on the run accused of stealing from ... -
Top court clears Health Bureau of medical malpractice
The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) has cleared the Health Bureau (SSM) of an accusation of medical malpractice involving the case of young child that died ... -
Minimum wage law | Gov’t turns down lawmakers’ call to include handicapped workers
The local government has decided that a minimum wage law currently under discussion will not cover handicapped workers, contrary to lawmakers’ request that it do so. ... -
Quanzhou | Man rescued after 69 hours in rubble of fallen hotel
A man was pulled out alive after being trapped for 69 hours under the rubble of a collapsed virus quarantine hotel in southeastern China in which ... -
Hubei | Province at center of virus lets some companies reopen
The province at the center of China’s virus outbreak is allowing factories and some other businesses to reopen in a show of confidence that Beijing is ... -
WHO declares that virus crisis is now a pandemic
Expressing increasing alarm about mounting infections, the World Health Organization declared that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who heads the ... -
This Day in History | 1964 – Hoffa faces eight years behind bars
The president of the powerful American Teamsters union has been sentenced to eight years in jail on bribery charges. James Hoffa has also been fined $10,000 ... -
USA | Joe Biden has another big primary night, wins four more states
Joe Biden decisively won Michigan’s Democratic presidential primary, seizing a key battleground state that helped propel Bernie Sanders’ insurgent candidacy four years ago. The former vice ... -
HSBC appoints new China CEO
HSBC Holdings Plc, which operates the largest franchise among global banks in China, named Mark Yunfeng Wang as president and chief executive officer of its China ... -
Corporate Bits | Sands Cares Ambassadors distribute donation of anti-virus products
Sands Cares Ambassadors recently helped to deliver 4,800 bottles of hand sanitizer, 30,000 pairs of medical gloves and 2,000 shower caps donated by Sands China to ... -
Singapore tourism may be worse hit than expected by virus
SIngapore is bracing for a harder hit to tourism than initially expected from the coronavirus as the outbreak spreads to more than 100 countries, impacting global ... -
Football | Spanish club Getafe refuses to play game in Italy amid virus
The president of Spanish soccer club Getafe said his team will not travel to Italy to play Inter Milan in the Europa League on Thursday because ... -
The Buzz | FAA waives rules that led airlines to fly empty planes
Federal regulators waived a rule yesterday that was causing airlines to fly nearly empty planes just to avoid losing takeoff and landing rights at major airports. ... -
Mideast | Iran VP, two Cabinet members have new virus
Iran’s senior vice president and two other Cabinet members have contracted the new coronavirus, a semiofficial news agency reported yesterday as the death toll in the ... -
World Briefs
CHINA The province at the center of China’s virus outbreak began allowing factories and some other businesses to reopen yesterday in a show of confidence that ... -
World Views | Bank of England and UK show how to deal with virus
Despite losing an empire and the sterling as the world’s reserve currency, the U.K. managed for years to punch well above its weight on international economic ... -
Thursday, March 12, 2020 – edition no. 3491
* Pandemic: WHO * A Macau quarantine | Couple held in isolation share what it’s like inside * Parents may opt not to send ... -
WHO declares that virus crisis is now a pandemic
Expressing increasing alarm about mounting infections, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday (early today, in Macau) that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic. Tedros ... -
Flu and coronavirus: Similar symptoms, different fears
Is it the flu, a cold or the new coronavirus? Patients and doctors alike are parsing signs of illness to figure out who needs what tests ... -
The Latest: Merkel: Virus will infect up to 70% of Germans
The Latest on the coronavirus outbreak sweeping the globe: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is citing expert estimates that up to 70% of the population could ... -
Corporate Bits | Wynn Macau only resort worldwide to win 8 Forbes Five-Star awards
For the fourth consecutive year, Wynn Macau has retained its position as the only resort in the world with eight Five-Star awards on the 2020 Forbes ... -
Corporate Bits | Sands Cares Ambassadors distribute donation of anti-virus products
Sands Cares Ambassadors recently helped to deliver 4,800 bottles of hand sanitizer, 30,000 pairs of medical gloves and 2,000 shower caps donated by Sands China to ... -
Gov’t stresses importance of honest travel declarations after case slips through
Honest travel history declarations are one of the most important factors in preventing another coronavirus outbreak in the city, the Health Bureau (SSM) stressed yesterday, after ...
