Yearly Archives: 2021
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One Country, Two Systems | Scholars call to ensure only patriots govern the SARs
Speakers at a recent seminar about One Country, Two Systems have proposed that Macau evaluate whether changes to the city’s election rules to ensure that Macau ... -
Briefs | Guangdong’s plan for Foshan shortens distance to Macau
Guangdong province has drafted a 15-year plan to develop the railway transport system of Foshan. According to this plan, the future railway network will shorten the ... -
Australia’s Crown slip-ups offer lessons for Macau’s gaming sector, expert says
The alleged money-launching and criminal misdeeds conducted by Australia’s Crown Resorts Ltd, which was said to be associated with one of Macau’s biggest junkets, Suncity Group, ... -
Photographer-lawyer seeks to encourage locals with latest publication
Local Portuguese photographer-lawyer João Miguel Barros yesterday launched his first photo album approved by Photo London, a famous online repertoire of emerging photography masters. Having published ... -
Police say no Myanmar citizens arrested, deny media accusations
The Public Security Police Force (PSP) clarified that the department has not arrested Myanmar citizens, as was declared by online media outlet Macau Concealers. Late Monday ... -
Macau Legend aiming to own gaming concession
The Macau Legend Development Ltd (Macau Legend) is aiming to operate the casinos under the company with their own gaming concession soon, the executive director, Melinda ... -
Construction of overbridges over Rotunda da Amizade to commence in March
The construction of the two overbridges over Rotunda da Amizade is slated to commence next month on March 1. The two overbridges will connect Av. ... -
Galaxy phase 4 moves forward, investment surpasses MOP13b
Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd (GEG) announced on Monday that Phase 4 of its Galaxy Macau project is progressing towards construction. The next phase of the development ... -
Tourism | Per-capita spending rose 77% in Q4 of 2020
Data released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) shows that in the last quarter of 2020 there was a drop year-on-year in the visitors ... -
Gaming | Casino operators’ stocks rally as China quarantine lifted
Macau casino stocks surged the most in nearly two and a half months after the gambling hub reopened to quarantine-free travel from mainland China. Sands China ... -
Three shots in the arm for the gaming industry: JP Morgan
As of yesterday morning, Macau’s gaming stocks exhibited a combined growth of 8 to 11%, vis-à-vis the Hang Seng Index’s (HSI) increase of 1.5%, apparently ... -
NASA releases Mars landing video: ‘Stuff of our dreams’
NASA yesterday [Macau time] released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous orange and white parachute hurtling ... -
This day in history | 1955 Britain’s big freeze
Deep snow and freezing temperatures continue across Britain leaving many parts of the country cut off from essential supplies. More than 70 roads in Britain are ... -
Canada’s Trudeau, Cabinet abstain from genocide vote
Canada’s House of Commons voted yesterday [Macau time] to declare that China is committing genocide against more than 1 million Uighurs in the western Xinjiang region ... -
Travel | Thailand mulls waiving quarantine for vaccinated tourists
Thailand may scrap its two-week mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors with proof of Covid-19 vaccination as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to revive its pandemic-hit tourism ... -
Urban Kitchen introduces classic South American and Caribbean cuisines
Urban Kitchen at JW Marriott Hotel Macau topped up its buffet line with an additional Latin American corner this spring. The dining experience will explore the ... -
Forbes names MGM Macau a Five-Star hotel for the sixth time
Forbes Travel Guide named MGM Macau a Five-Star Hotel for the sixth consecutive year in its 2021 Star Rating list, the gaming operator announced in a ... -
The Buzz | Egypt gets Sinopharm vaccines donated by China
Egypt’s health ministry yesterday said the country has received a 300,000-dose shipment of the Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine donated by China. It was the third vaccine shipment ... -
Facebook says it will lift its Australian news ban soon
Facebook said yesterday it will lift its ban on Australians sharing news after it struck a deal with Australia’s government on legislation that would make digital ... -
World Views | China and Russia are beating the West at vaccine diplomacy
It was encouraging to see G7 leaders including France’s Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Angela Merkel and the U.K.’s Boris Johnson all on the same page when it ... -
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 – edition no. 3719
* ‘Patriots’ should govern Macau, HK — Pro-Beijing sectors in the SARs, including Chief Executive Carrie Lam, advocate a change in the electoral system to prevent ... -
Immigration bill | Provision equalizes illicit entry and illicit overstaying
The bill on immigration control contains one article that indicates an equal weight of criminality for illicit entry and illicit overstaying. The same article, due to ... -
Symposium on ‘one country, two systems’ | Top official signals changes to Hong Kong election rules
China faces a “critical and urgent” task to overhaul Hong Kong’s electoral system, Beijing’s top official for the city said, in the latest sign that ... -
Macau scholar implicated in academic fraud
At least two academic papers authored by a researcher affiliated with the City University of Macau and published in the journal Springer Nature, erroneously listed David ... -
Covid-19 | 1,200 inoculated at ‘smooth’ vaccination rollout: Dr. Alvis Lo
Some 1,200 local residents were inoculated with their first dose of a vaccine for Covid-19 as of yesterday afternoon, while another 2,600 locals registered to schedule ... -
Woman accuses gambling partners of abuse of trust, claims HKD275,000 damage
A woman from the mainland is accusing two of her gaming partners of abusing her trust and appropriating HKD275,000 that belonged to her, the Judiciary Police ... -
TNR accused of arson in building fire
A non-resident worker (TNR) from the UK is being accused of deliberately lighting a fire in a building entrance in the early hours of February 19, ... -
Man arrested for filming and photographing colleague in toilet
A man has been detained and accused of the crime of intrusion of privacy for photographing and recording a work colleague while she was in the ... -
Agarwood Diffuser for cars | MUST team wins international design award
The product “smart car agarwood diffuser,” designed by Assistant Professor Zhang Mengting from the Faculty of Humanities and Arts of the Macau University of Science and ... -
Gaming | GGR picked up in the later half of February: JP Morgan
Macau’s gross gaming revenue (GGR) for the first 21 days of February is expected to be around MOP5.8 billion, or MOP276 million per day, the latest ... -
Zheng Anting urges moving abandoned vehicles to Guangdong
Lawmaker Zheng Anting has recommended that the local government move the city’s abandoned and unclaimed vehicles to Guangdong province so that the city can be rid ... -
Briefs | Taxi driver arrested three months after defrauding passenger
A taxi driver who defrauded a passenger he transported from the Border Gate Plaza to the Rua de Malaca on November 22 has finally been ... -
Analysis | Rethinking the US-China fight: Does China really threaten American power abroad?
President Joe Biden is so far maintaining his predecessor’s tough China policy, which aims to curb China’s international power both economically and politically. In the U.S. ... -
US-China relations | Wang urges Biden to lift trade restrictions, stop interference
China’s top diplomat called yesterday for new U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration to lift restrictions on trade and people-to-people contacts while ceasing what Beijing considers unwarranted ... -
This day in history | 1959 Macmillan and Khrushchev talk peace
Britain and the USSR have expressed a willingness to expand Anglo-Soviet trade and cultural ties during the first official meeting between British prime minister Harold Macmillan ...
