Daily Archives: Monday, April 20, 2020
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Asia Today: India, Singapore see record numbers of new cases
BANGKOK (AP) — India and Singapore announced their biggest single-day spikes in new coronavirus cases on Monday, as the crisis intensifies in parts of Asia. India’s ... -
MDT/AP News Minute
A gunman disguised as a police officer shot people in their homes and set fires in a rampage across the Canadian province of Nova Scotia that ... -
Lawmaker wants more paid training courses
Lawmaker Leong Sun Iok has asked the local government to expand the government paid training program to more sectors. In Leong’s interpellation to the SAR ... -
ExCo completes discussion on amended 2020 budget
The Executive Council (ExCo) has completed discussions on the draft of the amended 2020 budget. The total expenditure amount of the MSAR integrated budget for the ... -
Foreign reserves fall 2.3% from a month earlier
The Monetary Authority of Macao has announced that the preliminary estimate of the SAR’s foreign exchange reserves amounted to 176.6 billion patacas at the end of ... -
School resumption back on track for senior students
Secondary schools will resume in May in a two- phased approach, the director of the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ), Lou Pak Sang, announced yesterday ... -
Government confident in affordable housing supply
The Macau SAR government is confident in its ability to supply more affordable housing units to local residents in the long-term. The First Standing Committee of ... -
IKEA store to hold soft opening Thursday
Swedish furniture brand IKEA will hold the soft opening for its first Macau store on Thursday. Located in the shopping mall of the Nova Grande residence, ... -
Analysis | Policy Address: After health crisis victory, some question if HIS has will to save economy
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng (HIS) has satisfied the public with his handling of the novel coronavirus outbreak, riding on a wave of popularity in his ... -
Gaming | Sands suspends $2.37 billion dividend, seeks acquisitions
With the casino industry shut down by the coronavirus, Sheldon Adelson is suspending Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s dividend. He’s also looking to purchase existing resorts ... -
G2E Asia postponed again, this time to December
Annual gaming industry event G2E Asia will be again postponed, this time to December 1 to 3 this year, its organizing bodies have announced. The organizing ... -
Analysis | With new virus plan, Trump passes buck to states
President Donald Trump’s guidelines for states to reopen their economies had the hallmarks of a permission structure. But what he really created was a blame structure. ... -
Japan | New wave of infections threatens to collapse hospitals
Hospitals in Japan are increasingly turning away sick people as the country struggles with surging coronavirus infections and its emergency medical system collapses. In one recent ... -
The workers who keep Spain going under lockdown
As Spain hunkers down after five weeks of confinement, the brave few keep the country going during a coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 20,000 ... -
This Day in History | 1972 Apollo 16 safely on Moon after engine crisis
The Apollo 16 mission has landed on the Moon after a seven-hour crisis that nearly aborted the mission altogether. Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke became ... -
Fair to furlough? Massive UK job-saving plan prompts pushback
Britain’s bailout battle is heating up before the first penny has even been paid in an unprecedented effort to save jobs amid the coronavirus pandemic. While ... -
UK youth orchestra plays ‘Ode to Joy’ alone but together
A nationwide lockdown didn’t stop Britain’s National Youth Orchestra from making music — alone but together. With the country in its fourth week of isolation to ... -
NBC’s Peacock launching in July with ‘handful’ of originals
NBCUniversal says its video-streaming service Peacock will launch nationally in July as planned, even though just a handful of its original series will be ready. ... -
The Buzz | Millions of orchids discarded by top world exporter
As global tourism collapses, so does the orchid industry in top exporter Thailand, where the flowers are regarded as a symbol of hospitality. Global demand for ... -
Hong Kong | US, UK condemn arrests of democracy advocates
The United States condemned the arrests of at least 14 veteran pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong on charges of joining massive anti-government protests last year, saying ... -
World Briefs
SOUTH KOREA reported just eight more cases of the coronavirus yesterday, the first time a daily increase has dropped to single digits in about two months. ... -
World Views | Why science won’t ace its Covid-19 test
A New York Times article published earlier this month proclaimed that, according to scientists, “never before have so many of the world’s researchers focused so ... -
Monday, April 20, 2020 – edition no. 3516
* The fight ahead — Macau looks for signs Ho Iat Seng has political will to save economy * Back to school again | High ...
