Daily Archives: Tuesday, April 20, 2021
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Covid-19 | Vaccination insurance will not cover facial nerve paralysis case: SSM
The insurance program, purchased by the SAR government for local inoculation participants, will not cover the city’s second serious adverse event, which involved a 27-year-old male ... -
French chamber to hold gala dinner to raise MOP50,000
The France Macau Chamber of Commerce’s (FMCC) annual gala dinner will finally be held at MGM Macau on May 28 after being postponed last year due ... -
Bus drivers in trouble after viral social media footages
Two videos circulating on social media platforms which displayed the dangerous driving behavior of two local bus drivers were used as grounds by bus companies Transportes ... -
Covid-19 | Gov’t mulls suspending AstraZeneca vaccines until next year
The government is now considering to push back the import of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines until 2022, Dr Tai Wa Hou, coordinator of the Health Bureau’s Covid-19 ... -
NEW IMMIGRATION LAW | Gov’t reaffirms the need to collect triple biometrical data
The government has reaffirmed the need to collect three different types of biometrical data for border control. The measure, based upon the new immigration law and ... -
Lawmaker calls for timeline for capping resort TNRs
In his recent written inquiry, lawmaker Ng Kuok Cheong requested that the government to ask gambling concessionaires to reduce non-resident workforce to below 20% within ... -
Entry bans without restrictions
The new immigration law being analyzed by the Legislative Assembly’s (AL) Third Standing Committee does not establish time limits for the enforcement of entry bans over ... -
Chinese flag part of mandatory curriculum after law review
If the proposed amendments to the local laws governing the use and protection of the national flag and emblem go through the parliament, contents on the ... -
MOP9.11b to be used from reserves in reviewed budget
The government proposes to use MOP9.11 billion from its reserves to support this year’s budget, the Executive Council (ExCo) announced yesterday. In order to facilitate the ... -
Gaming | VIP Q1 GGR outperforms brokerages’ projections
The VIP segment raked in approximately MOP9.13 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of 2021, up 19.7% quarter-to-quarter, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau revealed. The ... -
TECHNOLOGY | Tencent’s Ma dangles billions in aid as antitrust scrutiny grows
Tencent Holdings Ltd. founder Pony Ma pledged $7.7 billion toward curing societal ills and lifting China’s countryside out of poverty, echoing Xi Jinping’s priorities at a ... -
Covid-19 | Hong Kong to ban flights from the Philippines, India, Pakistan
Hong Kong will ban flights from India, Pakistan and the Philippines for 14 days starting from today as the city reported the first two cases with ... -
Gov’t says US-Japan actions are stoking division
China hit back at the U.S.-Japan show of alliance during talks between President Joe Biden and Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, calling it an “ironic attempt ... -
Boao Forum returns with investment in focus
China is signaling it’s open for business with the resumption of its high-profile Boao Forum for Asia, an opportunity for the government to make a renewed ... -
Great Times | Where Wedding Dreams are Made
Everyone has a dream wedding in mind, and when it comes to wedding décor, most people walk miles and go to great length to find the ... -
Aerospace | NASA’s Mars helicopter takes flight, first for another planet
NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars yesterday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on ... -
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 ... -
Bahamas tops China in ranking of central bank digital currencies
Mainland China is third behind the Bahamas and Cambodia in a ranking of the maturity of central banks’ retail digital currency projects, according to a report ... -
Basketball | Kings snap 9-game losing streak, beat Mavericks 121-107
De’Aaron Fox had 30 points and 12 rebounds, Harrison Barnes scored 24 and Terence Davis II added 23 as the Sacramento Kings snapped a nine-game losing ... -
The Buzz | European Union to purchase 100 million more vaccine doses
Pharmaceutical company BioNTech and its U.S. partner Pfizer say they will provide 100 million more doses of their coronavirus vaccine to the European Union this year. ... -
Tottenham fires manager Jose Mourinho after 17 months
Tottenham fired Jose Mourinho yesterday after only 17 months in charge, and just as he was preparing to coach the club in the League Cup final. ... -
World Views | EU’s bond bonanza will reshape the capital markets
The fixed-income landscape is set to be transformed as the European Union revs up to borrow $1 trillion by selling bonds in its own right. While talk ... -
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 – edition no. 3756
* Big spending — The government proposes to inject an additional MOP9.11 billion to the 2021 budget to facilitate the third stimulus scheme and other spending ...
