Yearly Archives: 2021
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Gaming | Studio City’s GGR up 146% in Oct-Nov, pursues senior notes
The aggregate gross gaming revenue (GGR) of Studio City’s casino from October to November 2020 surged by 146% when compared to the third quarter of last ... -
Amsterdam-Tokyo flight opens way for SAR residents in Europe to return
A flight to Macau from Tokyo via Air Macau is set to transpire on January 21, making it possible to accommodate stranded residents in Europe ... -
Mainland routes will increase to accommodate CNY travelers
Macau International Airport (MIA) has scheduled more flights to and from mainland China to accommodate passengers traveling during the upcoming Chinese New Year holiday. Yesterday, the ... -
Simple Pay | AMCM to launch integrated platform to boost convenience of payments
The Monetary Authority of Macao (AMCM) is collaborating with financial institutions to launch an integrated online payment platform, dubbed “Simply Pay,” to boost local businesses, according ... -
Local issues and Covid-19 piqued interest: survey
Statistics show that apart from Covid-19, news readers in Macau have a significant focus on their homeland as well, Chinese newspaper Cheng Pou reports. As the ... -
Pereira Coutinho calls for public works contracts to be given to local engineering companies
Lawmaker José Pereira Coutinho wants the government to give more public construction contracts to local engineering companies instead of mainland-based ones, he said in a ... -
Lawmakers’ agenda
Monitoring of public assets: Lawmaker Wong Kit Cheng has written an interpellation to the government asking about department coordination for the monitoring of public assets. In ... -
Finances show internal stability in November 2020, external loans drop
According to statistics released yesterday by the Monetary Authority of Macao (AMCM), broad money supply rebounded in November last year with a stable share of patacas. ... -
IIM promotes Macau’s anniversary to diaspora with new documentary film
The International Institute of Macau (IIM) has launched a series of activities aiming to promote Macau’s 20th handover anniversary worldwide, namely in the Macanese diaspora. These ... -
MGM clarifies it did not engage in suspected third-party copyright infringement
Asia Star TV held the worldwide final of the Miss Asia Pageant 2020 at the MGM Cotai theater on January 3. However, it has come to ... -
Hengqin opens law service center for foreign legal affairs
The Hengqin government has opened a law service center specifically for legal affairs involving non-mainlanders, according to a statement released by China (Guangdong) Pilot Free Trade ... -
Xinhua urges end to long work hours in tech
China’s official Xinhua News Agency is calling for shorter work hours in the country’s tech sector following the sudden death last week of a young employee ... -
Hong Kong | Top judge cautious on calls for judicial reform
Hong Kong’s outgoing top judge said yesterday that calls for reform of the city’s judiciary cannot be based on dissatisfaction with court rulings, as pro-Beijing figures ... -
This day in history | 2000 Flu outbreak stretches NHS resources
Hospitals around the UK are feeling the strain of the current flu outbreak even though it has not been classed as an epidemic. In Scotland latest ... -
Ladbrokes owner Entain rejects MGM’s $11b takeover
Gambling company Entain Plc has dismissed an 8.1 billion-pound ($11.1 billion) takeover attempt from MGM Resorts International saying the bid undervalues the U.K. company that’s benefiting ... -
UK freight shipping costs quadruple after Brexit and Covid-19
The cost of moving freight from France to the U.K. surged to more than four times the usual level last week after Brexit and a ... -
MGM wins 28 HR accolades in 2020
MGM has won 28 international and regional HR accolades solely in 2020, the gaming operator announced in a statement. In the future, MGM pledged that it ... -
WTT Macau 2020 among CCTV’s top ten international sports news: GEG
The World Table Tennis (WTT) Macau 2020 was the city’s only international sports event to be ranked in the top ten international sports news in 2020 ... -
Football | Man United gaining respect from rivals ahead of crucial week
Over the next seven days, Manchester United can reach a cup final and climb to the top of the Premier League — all at the expense ... -
The Buzz | Hong Kong detects cases of new Covid-19 variant, mulls ban on UK flights
Hong Kong has detected four cases of the U.K. variant of Covid-19, health authorities said in a virtual press briefing yesterday. Among the cases was a ... -
Hebei | Beijing makes parts of province high danger zones
China has designated parts of Hebei province near Beijing as a coronavirus high danger zone after 14 new cases of COVID-19 were found. Eleven of those ... -
World Views | NYSE just gave China Inc. one more reason to leave
What’s more shocking? Kicking out Chinese companies listed in the U.S., or a sudden U-turn from one of America’s biggest stock exchanges on its plan to do ... -
Wednesday, January 6, 2020 – edition no. 3688
* Another way home — The upcoming Amsterdam-Tokyo and Tokyo-Macau route is expected to bring home stranded local residents in Europe * 30,747 tourists: City ... -
Where is Jack Ma, China’s e-commerce pioneer?
China’s best-known entrepreneur, e-commerce billionaire Jack Ma, made his fortune by taking big risks. The former English teacher founded Alibaba Group in 1999, when China had ... -
UK | PM bets 2 million vaccine shots a week will end lockdown
Boris Johnson pinned his hopes for a national recovery on a plan to deliver 2 million coronavirus vaccinations a week, as the U.K. went back into ... -
Gov’t: No negotiation plans to open special channels
Individuals who want to return to or depart from Macau should find ways other than Taipei, which has recently closed borders to foreign entrants and transit ... -
Home address needed for Health Code from today
Following a system crash last month, the Macau Health Code will now require users to enter their home address in order to generate a code. Dr ... -
Briefs | 2,500 social housing applications recorded since August
The Housing Bureau has received upwards of 2,500 applications for social housing since the introduction of a new permanent application method on August 20, 2020. ... -
CPCS: Gov’t proposes keeping minimum wage, severance pay unchanged
The government has proposed making no change to the amount of the minimum wage for local cleaners and security guards working in residential buildings, nor the ... -
Controversial Nam Van Lake proposals to be presented to Urban Planning Committee
Having received 138 comments in opposition to the planning conditions drafts for two Nam Van Lake land plot developments, the Land, Public Works and Transport Bureau ... -
Registrations for universities’ unified exam open today
Registrations for students seeking to participate in the Unified Exam to access the four local university institutions open today and will remain accessible until January 20. ... -
Crime | Teenager accused of rape
The Judiciary Police (PJ) has remanded a local teenage boy and referred him to the prosecution authority on the charge of rape, the department reported yesterday ... -
Committee suggests widening road to fit bigger buses
Vice President of the Traffic Services Committee Wong Seng Fat suggests widening some of the city’s roads to accommodate the forthcoming bus models. These buses are bigger ... -
AMCM to prompt banks to offer transaction reassurance to credit cardholders
The Monetary Authority of Macao (AMCM) has pledged to prompt local financial institutions to reinforce verification measures for credit card transactions, to safeguard local customers’ entitlements. ... -
Gaming | Deutsche Bank scales back city’s 2021 GGR forecast
The Deutsche Bank Securities Inc has moderately rolled back its previous projection of Macau’s gross gaming revenue (GGR) for 2021 from USD26.60 billion to $26.35 ...
