Daily Archives: Wednesday, March 3, 2021
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Breaking News: Las Vegas Sands sells its properties in USD6.25b deal
Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS) today (Wednesday) announced that it has entered into definitive agreements to sell its Las Vegas real property and operations, including The ... -
Gov’t lifts NAT certificate requirement for casino entries
The requirement for patrons to present a nucleic acid test certificate proving they are negative for Covid-19 infection before they enter casinos was lifted at 12 ... -
Briefs | Calls for application for 2021 CIIE open
Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) is calling on local firms to participate in the 4th China International Import Expo (CIIE), which will be held in ... -
China targets 40% vaccination rate by end-June, Zhong Nanshan says
The Chinese government strives to have 40% of its population vaccinated by the end of June, said Zhong Nanshan, China’s top coronavirus expert who helped formulate ... -
‘Family reunion’ immigration applications mostly from the mainland
In the past three years, the Public Security Police Force (PSP) received some 2,000 to 3,000 immigration applications motivated by “family reunions”, according to a ... -
GBA | Gov’t committed to aligning closely with the nation’s cultural & tourism plan
The SAR government affirmed its commitment to closely align itself with the development directions stipulated in the Culture and Tourism Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau ... -
IC verifying ages of two newly discovered old cannons
Yesterday morning, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) removed two old cannons from the construction site of the Galaxy resort project. Workers at the construction site reported ... -
Tour guides anticipate new tourism mode once pandemic is over
The city’s tour guides are anticipating a significant change in the mode of global tourism once the pandemic is over, Wu Wai Fong, chairman of the ... -
Crime | PJ inspector suspected of leaking confidential information
A 50-year-old investigator from the Judiciary Police (PJ) was arrested on Monday morning on suspicion of being connected to a case regarding the leaking of privileged ... -
Immigration Law | Lawmakers concerned with apparent double-standard on penalties for crimes
Lawmakers of Third Standing Committee of the Legislative Assembly (AL) have expressed concerns regarding the penal framework for the new crimes proposed to be introduced under ... -
Lawmaker calls for gov’t to amend domestic violence law
Lawmaker Agnes Lam urges the government to amend the Law on Preventing and Combating Domestic Violence (domestic violence law) to empower the Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) ... -
Alvis Lo to head SSM next month
Alvis Lo Iek Long will replace Lei Chin Ion as the director of the Health Bureau (SSM) early next month. Dr Lo is currently the ... -
Court of Second Instance | Defendants must pay court costs, legal fees in cases of crime expiration
Defendants in criminal cases continue to be responsible for paying court costs and legal fees even if the crime they were accused of lapses, the judges ... -
Hotel occupancy rate stood at 40.3%
The average occupancy rate of guest rooms stood at 40.3% in January, representing a month-to-month fall of 12.8 percentage points and a year-on-year drop of 40.7 ... -
Covid-19 | Chinese vaccines sweep much of the world, despite concerns
The plane laden with vaccines had just rolled to a stop at Santiago’s airport in late January, and Chile’s president, Sebastián Piñera, was beaming. “Today,” he ... -
This day in history | 1966 BBC tunes in to colour
The BBC has announced plans to begin broadcasting television programmes in colour from next year. Britain will be the first country in Europe to offer regular ... -
Myanmar | Police fire tear gas, rubber bullets at protesters
Police in Myanmar repeatedly used tear gas and rubber bullets yesterday against crowds protesting last month’s coup, but the demonstrators regrouped after each volley and tried ... -
Analysis | Xi mobilizes China for tech revolution to cut dependence on West
For U.S. politicians, China’s potential to dominate sensitive cutting-edge technologies poses one of the biggest geopolitical threats of the next few decades. President Xi Jinping is ... -
Wrestling | O’Neal ready to rumble in tag team match
Hack-a-Shaq is coming to All Elite Wrestling. Shaquille O’Neal may again absorb some intentional hits in his tag team match this week. The 7-foot-1 basketball Hall ... -
The Buzz | Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into ... -
Churchill painting owned by Angelina Jolie sells for $11.5M
A Moroccan landscape painted by Winston Churchill and owned by Angelina Jolie sold at auction for more than $11.5 million, smashing the previous record for a ... -
World Views | Carbon emissions made a rapid recovery from Covid
The chief benefit of the International Energy Agency’s new monthly data on global carbon emissions, published yesterday, is getting to see just how awful our predicament ... -
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 – edition no. 3724
* Covid tests lifted for casinos * Old cannons found in Cotai * China targets 40% vaccination rate by end-June * Agnes Lam urges ...
