Daily Archives: Thursday, May 21, 2020
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Asia Today: Australia lets woman travel to see dying sister, Japan emergency eases
A New Zealand woman has been reunited with her dying sister in Australia after gaining an exemption from pandemic travel restrictions on compassionate grounds. Australia had ... -
China focused on jobs as national legislature meets
As job losses surge, China is joining the United States and other governments in rolling out stimulus spending to revive its virus-battered economy. How much is ... -
Health authorities back PSP decision on June 4 vigil
Health authorities at the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Center, have backed the Public Security Police Force’s (PSP) decision of not authorizing the annual June 4 ... -
HK public broadcaster to halt show after police complaint
Hong Kong’s public broadcaster said it would suspend the long-running satirical television program “Headliner” after the Communications Authority reprimanded it for its portrayal of the ... -
HK, Macau Affairs Office boss leaves national position
Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong & Macau Affairs Office, has left his post at the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). Xia had just ... -
Organizer to appeal police ban on 31-year-old Tiananmen vigil
Au Kam San, lawmaker and co-organizer of the annual June 4 vigil in the city, has informed the Times that he will file a judicial appeal ... -
Briefs | Chinese doctor advises Trump not to take medicines
A Chinese doctor has said he does not recommend that people take medicines when they have not been prescribed them. Doctor Alvis Lo from Macau’s ... -
Crime | Couple charged with fraud, laundering of 3.3 million patacas
The Judiciary Police (PJ) has charged a local couple with money laundering, the police department announced during a press conference yesterday morning. The couple consists of ... -
Crime | Man accused of selling elderly neighbor’s e-voucher
The Public Security Police Force (PSP) has charged one man with the sale of another person’s e-voucher. The victim is a senior citizen aged in ... -
Anti-corruption report highlights document forgery in 2019 review
The 2019 Annual Report of the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC), published yesterday in the government’s Official Gazette, details instances last year where several public officials from ... -
Portuguese consulate expresses gratitude for local fundraising
On behalf of the Portuguese government, the Portuguese Consul-General in Macau and Hong Kong has expressed its gratitude towards the local community for donating personal protective ... -
Democrat lawmaker calls on parliament to enter digital age
The website of the Legislative Assembly (AL) is poorly designed and not user-friendly, lawmaker Sulu Sou told a press conference yesterday, as he called for more ... -
Visitor spending falls 70% in first quarter
Visitor spending plummeted in the first quarter of 2020 in proportion to the decline in the number of arrivals, new data from the Statistics and Census ... -
MGTO to launch free tours in overnight visitor push
The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) will provide free half-day tours for overnight visitors as part of an ambitious plan to revive the local tourism sector. ... -
Virus looms over China’s national legislative session
When China convenes its National People’s Congress tomorrow, will the 3,000 delegates stand shoulder to shoulder? Will they wear masks? This year’s version of China’s biggest ... -
This Day in History | 1991 Bomb kills India’s former leader Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi, the 46-year-old former Indian prime minister, has been assassinated. He was campaigning for the Congress Party on the second day of voting in the ... -
‘New normal’ anything but as countries continue to reopen
Hundreds of thousands of high school seniors in South Korea had their temperature checked and rubbed their hands with sanitizer as they returned to school yesterday, ... -
Analysis | Crisis reminds us that nothing beats dollars
There is something about America that tends to shed fear. Its citizens occasionally tremble, but America as a whole exploits fear. It may do anger or ... -
One Good Thing | Donation brings a bit of Mardi Gras to hospital workers
Emily Bauman is a believer in the power of music. So when she got her stimulus check, she put that power to work — for New ... -
The Buzz | Taiwan President Tsai takes stock of pandemic
Taiwan’s president said the coronavirus pandemic has changed the global political and economic order, accelerated and expanded the reorganization of global supply chains, restructured the global ... -
Quest for ‘super-duper missile’ pits US against key rivals
They fly at speeds of a mile a second or faster and maneuver in ways that make them extra difficult to detect and destroy in flight. ... -
World Views | How to make coronavirus restrictions easier to swallow
To address the coronavirus pandemic, it’s essential to influence human behavior; to promote social distancing, to get people to wear masks, to encourage people to stay home. ... -
Thursday, May 21, 2020 – edition no. 3538
* Last appeal — Organizers take police ban on Tiananmen vigil to court * Visitor spending plummeted in the first quarter in proportion to the decline ... -
Ghosn’s suspected escape accomplices arrested in Boston
A former Green Beret soldier and his son, charged in Japan with aiding the escape of Carlos Ghosn, were arrested in Massachusetts today [Macau time] and ...
