Daily Archives: Wednesday, January 5, 2022
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Breaking News | Hong Kong bans flights, imposes other Covid-19 restrictions
Hong Kong authorities announced a two-week ban on flights from the United States and seven other countries and held 2,500 passengers on a cruise ship for ... -
2022 to be a ‘sports-busy’ year: Pun
This year will be packed with sporting events, president of the Sports Bureau (ID) Pun Weng Kun said yesterday on the sidelines of a press conference ... -
Seven Olympians among 16-strong WTT Macao field
Seven Olympic athletes, along with other elite players, will compete at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Champions Macao 2021 China Stars tournament to be held between ... -
Quarantine hotel rooms fully booked until Lunar New Year
Some local residents currently abroad who want to return home to celebrate Lunar New Year cannot book rooms for quarantine, local media reports. Local Chinese newspaper ... -
IC: Compulsory footprint registration at Mount Fortress a miscommunication
Reports of the forced registration of visits to the Mount Fortress Corridor with the Macao Health Code app is the result of miscommunication, the Cultural Affairs ... -
No injuries in fire truck rollover
A fire truck flipped over beside the door of the Macao Daily News Building, at the entrance to a flyover, damaging a seven-seater vehicle underneath. The ... -
GBA integration a priority for new drug administration head
Choi Peng Cheong, president of the newly-established Pharmaceutical Administration Bureau (ISAF), has said that traditional Chinese medicine and Macau’s pharmaceutical field entering mainland China are among ... -
Tax bureau rolls out two new e-services for business
Business users of e-services provided by the Financial Services Bureau (DSF) will now have the option to assign specific authorizations to their registered list of account ... -
Hong Kong | Media closures unrelated to press freedom: Lam
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam yesterday said the recent closure of two media outlets in the city does not indicate a decline in press freedom as ... -
Evergrande | Troubled Chinese developer told to demolish resort
A troubled Chinese real estate developer that is struggling with $310 billion in debt announced yesterday it has been ordered to demolish a 39-building resort complex in ... -
Defense | Beijing denies US report it’s rapidly growing its nuclear arms
A senior Chinese arms control official denied yesterday that his government is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal, though he said it is taking steps to modernize its ... -
Covid-19 | Conditions hard for residents in Xi’an partial lockdown
Authorities in Xi’an say they can provide food, health care and other necessities for the residents under a now almost two-week-old partial lockdown. But in social ... -
USA | Former Theranos CEO Holmes convicted of fraud and conspiracy
In a case that exposed Silicon Valley’s culture of hubris and hype, Elizabeth Holmes was convicted yesterday [Macau time] of duping investors into believing her startup ... -
This day in history | 1952 Churchill renews ‘special relationship’
The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, has arrived in the United States for an official visit, his first since re-election last October. He arrived in New ... -
Tech 2021 | Scientist, enforcer, high-flyer: three women put a mark on tech
Three bright and driven women with ground-breaking ideas made significant — if very different — marks on the embattled tech industry in 2021. Frances Haugen, Lina ... -
Tennis | Djokovic given medical exemption to play at Australian Open
Novak Djokovic will get a chance to defend his Australian Open title after receiving a medical exemption to travel to Melbourne, ending months of uncertainty about ... -
The Question Why are so many vaccinated people getting Covid-19 lately?
A couple of factors are at play, starting with the emergence of the highly contagious omicron variant. Omicron is more likely to infect people, even if ... -
The Buzz | A surge of evangelicals in Spain, fueled by Latin Americans
When Kent Albright, a Baptist pastor from the United States, arrived as a missionary to Spain in 1996, he was unprepared for the insults and threats, ... -
China Daily | Zero-tolerance to virus works and will persist
Will China’s zero-tolerance policy toward the novel coronavirus continue to work effectively to prevent the breakout of infections on a large scale? This is the question ... -
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 – edition no. 3926
* Try later — Quarantine hotel rooms fully booked until Chinese New Year * 2022 to be a ‘sports-busy’ year in the city: Pun * ...
