US sanctions ‘Broken Tooth’ for corruption, piggybacking

  The U.S. has imposed a sanction on Wan Kuok-koi, an infamous gangster and triad boss in China who goes by the alias “Broken Tooth” for the alleged illegal activities he

Briefs | Man pretends to be high-ranking official to carry out scam

The Judiciary Police (PJ) has apprehended a 57-year-old Macau man, who is suspected of pretending to be a high-ranking government official in order to defraud his victim, who wished to

Limbo wins Best Film in IFFAM

Ben Sharrock’s Limbo won Best Film in the the 5th International Film Festival & Awards – Macao, while Hirokazu Kore-eda was honoured for his achievements in film with the festival’s

Gov’t expecting MOP29.46b in gaming tax in 2020

The Macau government anticipates it will collect MOP29.46 billion in gaming taxes from the city’s casinos in 2020, 70% less than the forecast of MOP98 billion that was reported in November last

Wynn Supports Digital Transformation of Local SMEs

As a large-scale integrated enterprise deeply rooted in Macao, Wynn has been actively engaged in long-term partnerships with local small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for many years. During this year’s

Democrat group wants security in career, housing prospects in youth policy

Local democrat group New Macau Association (ANM) has cited Hong Kong and Taiwan as examples to prove that Macau should include youth careers and housing prospects, among other issues, in

Testing underway for bus recording devices

  Some of the city’s public buses are currently equipped with voice recording devices, but Director of the Transport Bureau (DSAT) Lam Hin San says that the authority has no intention

Gov’t makes ‘largest scale’ amendment in 30 years to stamp duty law

The Third Standing Committee of the Legislative Assembly (AL) believes that the government has just made the biggest changes to the city’s stamp duty policy in 30 years. Yesterday, the committee

Bubble Up your Festive Spirit at MGM

Make this your ultimate Holiday calendar! MGM COTAI has dressed up and turned into a candy house this winter! Start humming the best Christmas carols at the 7.3 meters tall

New group of Macau racers ready to prove themselves as soon as racing restarts

A new batch of Macau racers is ready to start racing and challenge themselves against other competitors in their categories. Starting from square one, which in motorsports is to say from

Electoral Affairs Commission to be set up by month’s end

In accordance with the law, the Electoral Affairs Commission for the Legislative Assembly Election will be established by the end of this year, Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong

Lawmakers’ Agenda | Wu Chou Kit denies Sulu’s sentiments on whistleblowers

  In an unusual occurrence on Wednesday, lawmaker Wu Chou Kit used some of his speaking time to reply to a spoken inquiry that another lawmaker had made to the government

Authority says two Canadians have been indicted, tried

China’s Foreign Ministry said yesterday that two Canadians who have been held for two years in a case linked to a Huawei executive have been indicted and put on trial,

Digital Minister: Taiwan to guard privacy

Taiwan plans to create an independent agency to enforce digital privacy, a Cabinet minister says, tackling an increasingly urgent issue as countries step up surveillance during the pandemic. Taiwan is one

Pompeo unloads on US universities for China ties

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday (Macau time) accused U.S. universities of caving to Chinese pressure to blunt or bar criticism of the Chinese Communist Party. The attack, which included

Authorities to sanction US officials, curb some diplomat travel

China said it will sanction more U.S. officials and place new travel restrictions on American diplomats in retaliation for measures taken by the Trump administration over Hong Kong. Chinese Foreign Ministry

Thailand | Activists urge UN to help repeal royal defamation laws

Pro-democracy demonstrators in Bangkok marked United Nations Human Rights Day yesterday with rallies calling for the abolition of Thailand’s strict royal defamation law, which was recently revived to prosecute more

Australia excluded from global climate meeting as policies lag

Around 70 leaders including Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron will use a global climate summit this weekend to outline new pledges to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison,

This day in history | 2001 30,000 postal jobs ‘to be cut’

Up to 30,000 Post Office workers could lose their jobs over the next 18 months, Consignia, the company which runs the service, has announced. The company previously said it was to

Pfizer says some vaccine documents accessed in EMA hack

Pfizer Inc. said some documents it had submitted to Europe’s top drug regulator regarding its Covid-19 vaccine had been accessed in a cyber-attack on the agency. The U.S. drugmaker and German

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