Monthly Archives: June 2021
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The Buzz | Buckingham Palace barred minorities from office jobs in ‘60s
Buckingham Palace barred ethnic minorities from office jobs during the 1960s, the Guardian newspaper reported yesterday, citing documents in Britain’s National Archives. The revelation, published on ... -
Slow to start, China mobilizes to vaccinate at headlong pace
In the span of just five days last month, China gave out 100 million shots of its COVID-19 vaccines. After a slow start, China is now ... -
China Daily | China shouldering its responsibility to provide vaccines for common good
With the developed countries having flexed their financial muscles to gain pole position in the race to acquire COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health Organization’s green ... -
Friday, June 4, 2021 – edition no. 3786
* Four offices, one ruling — The Macau government, along with Beijing’s offices in the city, showed support to the ruling of the top court to ... -
TurboJet to close Tuen Mun-Macau ferry route
Ferry services operated by TurboJET between Tuen Mun and Macau will be terminated, the company announced in a statement. This comes as a result of the ... -
IFTM to offer new graduate program
The Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM) is preparing to offer a new graduate study program in hotel and tourism smart technologies, Dr. Fanny Vong, president ... -
CTS to transform into integrated tourism operator
Big Tourism” and providing integrated services will be the direction of China Travel Service’s (CTS) future development, Zhang Jianzhong, chairman of the company, said on the ... -
Home-coming registration platform opens to non-students
The online platform originally opened for Macau students studying abroad to register their intention to return to Macau has now been made available to all Macau ... -
IC holds meeting to prepare for typhoon season
Anticipating the peak of the typhoon season in Macau, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) held a meeting with officials in charge of several cultural and heritage ... -
Covid-19 | Macao Water, USJ offer vaccination incentives
Macao Water and the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) have introduced an incentive program to encourage their employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The water company ... -
PJ reports four more scams involving stolen credit card data
The Judiciary Police (PJ) have revealed that they have received four new reports from residents who have been targeted in the scam involving stolen credit ... -
MP delegation visits Beijing’s judicial bodies to discuss cooperation, security
A delegation from the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) led by the Prosecutor-general, Ip Son Sang, has recently toured Beijing, visiting several judicial bodies including the Supreme ... -
Crime | New shop assistant burgles shop safe box to repay debt
A 24-year-old male local resident, recently hired by a store in Cotai, was found to have taken HKD60,000 from the workplace safe box, the Public Security ... -
Urban renewal methods in big cities may not suit Macau
Urban planner and representative of the Urban Renewal Investigation Project, Lam Iek Chit, said that it may not be realistic to replicate external urban renewal methods ... -
Housing | Macau Urban Renewal signs LOIs for Lot P
Yesterday, the Macau Urban Renewal Limited (MUR) signed letters of intents (LOIs) with the building contractors for the construction of Home Swap Housing Units (parcel A) ... -
Gaming | Genting, Melco remain in Yokohama IR race
Genting Singapore and Melco Resorts & Entertainment have qualified for the city’s Request for Proposal (RFP) to develop an integrated resort (IR), the government of Yokohama, ... -
Melco to organize e-Sports event with Tencent
Melco Resorts & Entertainment has announced that it will be co-organizing the forthcoming “World University Cyber League 2021” e-sports event in the SAR with Tencent Sports. For the ... -
Gaming | GGR may plunge to ‘mid-50%’ range in June following May rally
The city’s gross gaming revenue (GGR) in June may plunge to “mid-50% range compared to June 2019,” according to brokerage Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd. Analysts at ... -
China trade envoy, US Treasury secretary meet by video
China’s chief economic envoy and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen held their first meeting by video yesterday, but the two sides gave no indication when negotiations on ... -
Hong Kong | Tiananmen museum shuts down amid investigation
A Hong Kong museum commemorating China’s deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests closed yesterday three days after opening as the ruling Communist Party tries to stamp ... -
South China Sea | US, Japan reaffirm alliance amid territorial claims
The new head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command held talks with top Japanese officials this week and reaffirmed their alliance amid China’s increasingly assertive claims to ... -
This day in history | 1972 Protestant march ends in battle
A Protestant march against the creation of “no-go” areas in Londonderry has ended in a bloody battle on the Craigavon Bridge. Soldiers used rubber bullets and ... -
Covid-19 | Sinovac vaccine restores a Brazilian city to near normal
Just one COVID-19 patient is in critical condition at the Dr. Geraldo Cesar Reis clinic in Serrana, a city of almost 46,000 in Sao Paulo state’s ... -
Wynn awards winners of national education drawing competition
Co-organized by Wynn Resorts (Macau) and the National Conditions Education (Macau) Association, the fifth “Wynn Cup –Macau Primary School Student National Education Drawing Competition” award ceremony ... -
GEG holds blessing ceremony for dragon boat team
Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) held a blessing ceremony for the four dragon boat teams consisting of its team members from various properties. For the 16th consecutive ... -
Technology | Huawei to roll out its own operating system to smartphones
Huawei is launching its own HarmonyOS mobile operating system on its handsets as it adapts to losing access to Google mobile services two years ago after ... -
EURO 2020 | Slovakia again pins its hopes on Marek Hamšík
After reaching the last 16 at the European Championship five years ago, Slovakia’s hopes for success at this year’s tournament will be pinned on the same ... -
The Buzz | AstraZeneca starts deliveries of Thailand-made vaccines
AstraZeneca’s partner in Thailand yesterday began its first deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines after concerns they were behind on their production schedules for the country and parts ... -
China tries to keep elephant herd out of city of 7 million
A herd of 15 wild elephants that walked 500 kilometers from a nature reserve in China’s mountain southwest were approaching the major city of Kunming yesterday ... -
China Daily | US must end hostility with China for the sake of the world
Over the past years, China-US relations have drawn the widest attention. After assuming office, US President Joe Biden used the word “competition” to describe the United ... -
Thursday, June 3, 2021 – edition no. 3785
* Brazil pins hope — Sinovac vaccine is restoring a Brazilian city to near normal as deaths and hospitalizations saw significant drop of up to 95% ... -
CE blames ‘unpredictable’ weather conditions for flooding
The Chief Executive (CE), Ho Iat Seng, blames the unpredictable weather conditions for the flooding that occurred during the early hours yesterday in several parts of ... -
Rainiest day since 1952
Macau saw its rainiest day yesterday (June 1) since 1952. At 5 a.m. yesterday, SMG issued a black rainstorm warning which was later replaced with red ... -
Revamped GP Museum officially inaugurated
The newly revamped Macau Grand Prix (GP) Museum was officially inaugurated yesterday at an event attended by the Chief Executive, Ho Iat Seng, the Secretary for ... -
Covid-19 | Walk-in vaccination starts today
From today, the local public will be able to receive the Covid-19 vaccine without making an online appointment on the Health Bureau’s (SSM) designated platform. ...
