No plans to extend transportation discount scheme to 60-64 year olds

  The Transport Bureau (DSAT) has confirmed that the authorities have no current plans to extend the transportation discount scheme for the elderly to those aged 60-64. The DSAT set out

Gaming | Suncity Group expects gain of RMB750 million for 2020

Suncity Group Holdings Ltd is anticipating a gain of approximately RMB750.4 million for the whole year of 2020, representing a sharp turn- around from the loss of RMB1.48 billion the previous

Gaming | Weekly GGR continues to trend upwards: JP Morgan

  Macau’s gross gaming revenue (GGR) for the first 21 days of March is projected to reach MOP5.8 billion, with the third week’s run-rate standing at around MOP307 million per day,

Macao Art Festival to return in May themed ‘Restart’

The 31st Macao Art Festival (MAF), which was suspended last year due to Covid-19, is set to make up for lost time and will roll out the red carpet in

53 organizations participate in IFTM Career Day

The Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM) held its 2021 Career Day yesterday at its Taipa Campus, inviting 53 participating organisations from Macau and the mainland to take part. These

TSI revokes blue card cancellation order on humanitarian grounds

  The judges of the Court of Second Instance (TSI) have revoked an order from the Secretary for Security, Wong Sio Chak, which had canceled the work permit (blue card) of

China, Russia officials meet in show of unity against EU, US

The foreign ministers of China and Russia affirmed their countries’ close ties at a meeting yesterday, amid intense criticism and new Western sanctions against them over human rights. Wang Yi and

South China Sea | US backs Philippines in standoff over reef

The United States said yesterday it’s backing the Philippines in a new standoff with Beijing in the disputed South China Sea, where Manila has asked a Chinese fishing flotilla to

This day in history | 1992 Punch ends 150 years of satire

Punch, Britain’s oldest satirical magazine, is to close after suffering crippling losses of £1.5m a year. The decision ends a publishing tradition dating back almost 151 years. It is expected to publish

Korean peninsula: Xi, Kim share messages reaffirming alliance

The leaders of China and North Korea are reaffirming their traditional alliance following contentious talks between top diplomats from Washington and Beijing and diplomatic isolation and economic problems in the

Economy | Biden starts infrastructure bet with US far behind China

President Joe Biden is betting that a multitrillion-dollar economic plan centered around infrastructure spending will do more than bolster an American economy hammered by the coronavirus pandemic: It will ensure

Olympics | Japan spends millions on technology for absent Tokyo games fans

Japan’s top telecommunications company is getting 7.3 billion yen — about $67 million — in taxpayer money to design mobile tracking software to curb the spread of coronavirus infections during

One Good Thing | An artist preserves Wuhan’s Covid memories

Scribbled instructions for incoming patients plastered on the window of a silent hospital reception counter. A lone worker in a hazmat suit, steadily spraying disinfectant in an empty hospital hallway. Such

The Buzz | Sinovac: CoronaVac vaccine effective in children

Sinovac said that its COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac is safe and effective in children ages 3-17. The results were from early and mid-stage clinical trials with over 550 subjects, said Geng Zeng,

World Views | The business case for vaccine passports

  Once people have been vaccinated against Covid-19, they’re safer to dine out, fly on airplanes, attend concerts and movies, work out at the gym, go to the office, cross borders

Wednesday, March 24, 2022 – edition no. 3739

— Weather Bureau forecasts 5 to 8 typhoons this year, develops new tsunami alert * Golden Bus reduces service frequency * Macao Art Festival to return in May * Ruling against Secretary Wong:

Household internet users climb to 183,500

The number of Macau households using the internet climbed by 1,200 year-on-year to 183,500 in 2020, according to the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) - 91.9% of the total households

New Central Library abandons plan to move traffic underground

The new Macao Central Library, which will be built on the former site of Hotel Estoril in Tap Seac Square, will abandon its plan to re-direct traffic underground from the

Mainland tourist apprehended and placed under medical observation in Coloane

  A 52-year-old man from Xi’an was searched by the police authorities in Macau and placed under medical observation at the Public Health Clinical Centre in Coloane yesterday morning, the Novel

Locals called on to take jabs to pave the way for expedited travel

Considering the willingness has remained low among Macau’s residents to receive a coronavirus inoculation, locals should take the jabs as early as possible to help the city achieve herd community,

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