Daily Archives: Monday, December 20, 2021
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Breaking News | Pro-Beijing candidates sweep Hong Kong elections, lowest turnout ever
Candidates loyal to China’s Communist Party won a landslide victory in Hong Kong’s legislative elections after pro-democracy activists were imprisoned and authorities received the power to ... -
Beijing Olympics team on tour in Macau
A 68-strong delegation has arrived in Macau for a three-day visit – along with some of the elite athletes from the Chinese team who competed in the ... -
Underage students harassed by nurse during vaccination
Authorities have arrested a 33-year-old male suspect for allegedly sexually harassing a group of female students while administering their Covid-19 shots. According to the Judiciary Police ... -
Deputy head of Liaison Office removed from post
Yao Jian, deputy head of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Macau, has been removed from his post, Xinhua stated in a report ... -
Covid-19 | Post-vaccination complications in 14-year-old patient
An adverse case was reported after complications arose from a 14-year-old’s vaccination on Saturday, December 18, according to the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre. The ... -
Lawmaker wants domestic workers out of TNRs regime
Lawmaker Ma Io Fong wants a new regime to regulate all domestic workers separately from other non-resident workers (TNRs). Ma expressed this wish in a spoken ... -
Lei Chan U wants to boost Mandarin language for national identity
In a spoken inquiry to the government, lawmaker Lei Chan U called on the authorities to redouble the use of the Mandarin language in Macau to ... -
Restaurant and retail performance falls short in October
Hospitality venue and retail trade slackened in October 2021, attributable to the import-related Covid-19 cases reported between late September and early October, information from the Statistics ... -
Halted applications for residency at IPIM remain a concern
The high number of requests and applications for the renewal of residency permits currently pending processing at the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) came ... -
39,000 enrolled in higher education
Macau has recorded approximately 39,000 students in higher education during the past academic year (2019-2020), an increase of 8.3% compared to the previous year. Of these, ... -
Decorations | 2021 Gov’t announces outstanding individuals, entities
Yesterday, the government announced it would award the Decoration of Honour – Golden Lotus to Kiang Wu Hospital and Chui Sai Cheong. A statement was released ... -
Gaming | New Year’s fireworks returning to Vegas after 2020 hiatus
New Year’s Eve fireworks that were called off last year on the Las Vegas Strip due to the coronavirus pandemic are returning with hopes for big ... -
Hong Kong votes for legislature with only loyalists approved
Hong Kong was voting yesterday in the first election since Beijing amended the laws to reduce the number of directly elected lawmakers and vet candidates to ... -
Beijing vows to respond after US enacts Xinjiang sanctions
China will take all necessary measures to safeguard its institutions and enterprises, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said last week after the U.S. Senate passed a law ... -
e-Commerce | Alibaba to grow Southeast Asia e-commerce arm to USD100b
Alibaba this week revealed an ambitious vision to grow its Southeast Asian e-commerce business to $100 billion in transacted sales as well as a pledge to ... -
India | Man beaten to death inside historic Sikh temple
A man was beaten to death in the northern Indian city of Amritsar after he allegedly attempted to commit a sacrilegious act inside the historic Golden Temple, ... -
Pakistan | Death toll in Karachi sewer gas blast jumps to 17
The death toll from a sewer gas blast in Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi jumped to 17 as some critically injured people died overnight and yesterday, ... -
Philippines | Typhoon deaths top 100, mayors plead for food
The governor of an island province in the central Philippines said yesterday at least 63 people died in the devastation wrought by Typhoon Rai in more ... -
Islamic world unites to aid desperately poor Afghanistan
The economic collapse of Afghanistan, already teetering dangerously on the edge, would have a “horrendous” impact on the region and the world, successive speakers warned yesterday ... -
This day in history | 1995 ‘Divorce’: Queen to Charles and Diana
The Queen has urged the Prince and Princess of Wales to seek “an early divorce”. Buckingham Palace said the Queen called for an end to the ... -
Olympics | Ferreira takes ski halfpipe win, closing in on Beijing spot
Alex Ferreira joked that all the spins in his winning run of the men’s ski halfpipe final left him feeling dizzy. This might straighten things out ... -
Hopes, fears in Finnish Christmas country as omicron looms
Workers at Santa Claus Village, a holiday theme park on the edge of the Arctic Circle, chipped away at a frozen dome, using chisels to put ... -
The Buzz | Germany tightens travel restrictions on UK
Germany is tightening travel restrictions for people coming from Britain in response to the rapid spread of the omicron variant there. The country’s national disease control ... -
China Daily | Differentiated policies for holiday travel required
It is less than two months before Spring Festival ushers in the Year of the Tiger. For many who work in places away from their loved ... -
Monday, December 20, 2021 – edition no. 3918
* Olympic Tour — A 68-strong delegation of top Chinese athletes arrived in Macau for a three-day visit * TNR | Lawmaker Ma advocates a stricter ... -
Pandemic: Fauci says omicron variant is ‘just raging around the world’
The COVID-19 omicron variant is “just raging around the world,” the White House’s top medical adviser said today (Sunday), and President Joe Biden is planning to ...
