Yearly Archives: 2021
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IPIM reports 101 suspicious immigration cases to prosecution office
A hundred and one cases of suspicious immigration processed by the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) have been reported to the Public Prosecutions Office ... -
Int’l assets in local banking sector dropped in Q4
The share of international assets in total banking assets declined to 85.1% at end-December 2020 from 85.8% at end-September 2020, official data shows. The Hong ... -
Employment | Over 3,800 locals land jobs in 2020 through DSAL
The Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) helped over 3,800 locals secure jobs throughout 2020 and is pledging to continue to review and adjust the number of foreign ... -
Lawmaker calls for discussion of falling tiles at parliamentary plenary
Lawmaker José Pereira Coutinho submitted a motion on February 10 to debate the falling tiles in public housing, a scenario he said had existed for two ... -
Wynn F&B Academy Enables Local Talents to Achieve Global Standards
In 2009, Wynn became the first local integrated resort to establish an F&B Academy, and over the last decade the Academy has invested significant resources to ... -
CRIME | Casino maintenance worker accused of embezzling HKD270,000
A casino worker in charge of the maintenance of slot machine games is being accused by his employer, a casino operator, of embezzling a total of ... -
Covid-19 | Senegal to get 200,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine
Senegal is to receive 200,000 doses of the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine Sinopharm yesterday [Macau time]. President Macky Sall will preside over a ceremony to mark the ... -
Hong Kong | Activist publisher Jimmy Lai denied bail again
Prominent Hong Kong democracy advocate and newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai was again denied bail yesterday ahead of his April trial on charges of colluding with foreign ... -
This day in history | 1997 China’s reformist Deng Xiaoping dies
China’s paramount leader Deng Xiaoping has died at the age of 92. He had been suffering from failing health for several years and was last seen ... -
United Nations | Guterres urges global plan to reverse unfair vaccine access
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sharply criticized the “wildly uneven and unfair” distribution of COVID-19 vaccines yesterday [Macau time], saying 10 countries have administered 75 percent of ... -
Drive In | A different kind of American odyssey in ‘Nomadland’
The great recession didn’t just eliminate jobs, it also erased an entire town. Six months after U.S. Gypsum closed its doors in Empire, Nevada, a company ... -
Macau Racing Tips | The Happiness 1500 Metres Turf 2021-02-20 | Sat | 15:45
Kung Hei Fat Choi to all racing fans in Macau, may the year of the Ox bring you winners all through non-stop. Hope we can kick ... -
Book It | An insider’s look behind the ‘60 Minutes’ stopwatch
Long-time multi-award-winning producer Ira Rosen has written a sometimes sad, often funny, always revealing portrait of American television’s most famous and successful news show, “60 Minutes.” ... -
The Buzz | US charges North Korean computer programmers in global hacks
The Justice Department has charged three North Korean computer programmers in a broad range of global hacks, including a destructive attack targeting an American movie studio, ... -
NASA rover streaks toward a landing on Mars
A NASA rover streaked toward a landing on Mars today (Macau time) in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that ... -
World Views | The real battle for the City of London
Britain’s departure from the European Union has left a visible mark on the City of London. Almost overnight at the start of January, the world’s preeminent financial ... -
Friday, February 19, 2021 – edition no. 3716
* Prom delay — Completion of the city’s waterfront promenade delayed due to Covid-19, IAM told the Times * Inquiries regarding mental health issues climbed in ... -
US charges North Korean computer programmers in global hacks
The Justice Department has charged three North Korean computer programmers in a broad range of global hacks, including a destructive attack targeting an American movie studio, ... -
Briefs | Foreign exchange reserves amount to MOP197B
The preliminary estimate of Macau SAR’s foreign exchange reserves amounted to MOP195.4 billion at the end of January 2021, according to data issue by the ... -
Immigration law | AL president requests to pass bill by September
The Third Standing Committee of the Legislative Assembly has received a request from the parliamentary head, Kou Hoi In, to finish compiling its opinions on an ... -
New law mandates employment agencies to pay a guarantee of MOP300,000
The new regulation, that warrants employment agencies to pay a guarantee fee of MOP 300,000, will take effect on March 15, according to an official gazette ... -
CNY | Tourist arrivals fail to meet gov’t’s forecast
Macau welcomed a total of 77,383 tourist arrivals during the first six days of the Chinese New Year (CNY) between February 11 to 16, down 68.2% ... -
Gaming | Spring Festival’s GGR continues to be curtailed as expected: JP Morgan
Macau’s casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) is expected to stand at MOP3 billion for the first 15 days of February, equivalent to an average daily number ... -
CE visits members of the public from different sectors during CNY
Chief Executive (CE) Ho Iat Seng visited a number of neighborhoods during the Lunar New Year in a bid to gain a better understanding of business ... -
Crime | Three cases of domestic violence recorded over the holiday period
Three domestic violence cases were handled by the Judiciary Police (PJ) over the Chinese New Year holidays, a PJ spokesperson informed yesterday at the regular joint ... -
Crime | Five stranded TNR scammed over job search
Five former non-resident workers (TNR) from the Philippines, currently stranded in Macau, have been defrauded by another Filipino over an alleged job referral scheme, the Public ... -
MGTO to launch water tours at Barra ferry terminal in Q1
The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) is set to roll out water tour activities at the Barra ferry terminal, which is slated to open in ... -
Covid-19 | 2,000 people registered to get inoculated on first day
Next Monday will be the commencement of the Covid-19 vaccination for the public and as of yesterday afternoon 2,200 people have booked to get their shots ... -
Education | UM alters postgraduate fees for international students
Tuition fees for postgraduate international students at the University of Macau (UM) in the upcoming 2021/2022 academic year will be similar to what students from mainland ... -
Analysis | Pentagon rethinking how to array forces to focus on China
The Biden administration faces a conundrum as it rethinks the positioning of military forces around the world: How to focus more on China and Russia without ... -
Beijing steps up online controls with new rule for bloggers
Ma Xiaolin frequently wrote about current affairs on one of China’s leading microblogging sites, where he has 2 million followers. But recently, he said in a ... -
This day in history | 1954 McCarthy hunts ‘army Communists’
The Secretary of the US army has ordered two generals, subpoenaed by anti-Communist senator Joseph McCarthy, to ignore the summons. The move by Robert T Stevens ... -
Australia | News media ‘large and small’ discuss Google deals
Google is quickly negotiating generous deals with big and small Australian media companies to pay for news as lawmakers consider forcing digital giants into such agreements, ... -
Pharma | Taiwan concerned China may have blocked vaccine purchase
Taiwan’s attempts to purchase 5 million doses of BioNTech SE’s Covid-19 vaccine fell apart at the last minute, Taiwan’s health minister said, voicing concern that political ... -
The Art of Giving | 2021, a year to REcommit
The 2019 global Covid-19 pandemic has put foward a series of pressing challenges that few of us anticipated. It is likely that there will be many ...
