Daily Archives: Monday, March 21, 2022
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Chinese airliner crashes with 132 aboard in country’s south
A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi today (Monday), officials said. The Civil Aviation Administration of ... -
New Macau requests gov’t intervention in soaring fuel prices
The Consumer Rights Protection Law should be used to stabilize prices of commercial fuels in Macau, Sulu Sou, vice director-general of the New Macau Association (ANM) ... -
Health authorities clarify how to register jabs received abroad
Residents who have been inoculated with Covid-19 vaccines outside Macau can register the inoculations into their health codes by presenting their vaccine certificates at one of ... -
IAM calls on halt to unsafe pickles consumption
The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) calls on consumers who have purchased unsafe pickles from the mainland and are in possession of the affected products to stop ... -
Events canceled over the weekend due to Covid-19 scare
A series of cultural, leisure, and major sporting events planned to take place over the weekend suffered last-minute cancelations. Organizers justified the hasty decision with the ... -
Five to eight tropical cyclones may affect Macau this year
Between five to eight tropical cyclones may affect Macau this year, the Macau Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) estimated. The first tropical cyclone could arrive in ... -
3,800 applicants for the Four Higher Education Joint Examination
Macau has a total of 3,800 applicants for the Joint Admission Examination for Macau Four Higher Education Institutions in 2022, according to the education bureau. “This ... -
DSAT confirms future traffic light at Galaxy new junction
The Transport Bureau (DSAT) assures on its website that traffic lights will be installed at a new junction leading towards Galaxy Macau. The junction in question ... -
95% of Macau’s households browse internet
Figures released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicate that the number of households using the internet in Macau has grown 2.7% in 2021 when ... -
Lawmaker Ron Lam calls for on-site tree conservation
The Land, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) might have exceeded its authority in forcing the relocation of 10 old trees in northern Taipa, lawmaker Ron ... -
Group asks gov’t to confirm urban renewal company as sole leader in projects
Designating the government-owned Macau Urban Renewal Limited (MUR) as the executing organization will be beneficial to urban renewal projects, the Macao Community Development Initiative (MCDI) suggested ... -
Xi urged US, Russia to negotiate, Biden asked China not to ‘help Russian invasion’
Face to face by video, President Joe Biden laid out to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday the stiff consequences the Chinese would face from ... -
Countries obliged to create space for peace
It was not another conversation in the ongoing flurry of video diplomacy against the backdrop of rising global challenges. It was an attempt to find a ... -
China weighs exit from ‘zero Covid’ and the risks involved
Even as authorities lock down cities in China’s worst outbreak in two years, they are looking for an exit from what has been a successful but ... -
Lam cabinet will review Covid-19 restrictions as cases decline
Hong Kong’s leader said yesterday that the government would consider lifting strict social distancing measures as new COVID-19 infections in the city continued trending downward. “I ... -
Russian leader appears at big rally as troops press attack in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared at a huge flag-waving rally at a packed Moscow stadium over the weekend and lavished praise on his troops fighting in ... -
1963: Train drives itself
The first automatic train on the London underground could be hurtling into stations in three weeks, the government has revealed. The trains, which operate without a ... -
Method to their madness as fans bet on college hoops tourney
John Raymond made a plan and was sticking to it after arriving at Atlantic City’s Borgata casino to bet on the March Madness college basketball tournament ... -
Brumbies, Chiefs impress in Super Rugby Pacific
The ACT Brumbies and Hamilton-based Chiefs have emerged clearly as the best teams in Australia and New Zealand after the weekend’s fifth round of Super Rugby ... -
Ukraine war is backdrop in US push for hypersonic weapons
Lagging behind Russia in developing hypersonic weapons, the U.S. Navy is rushing to field its first, with installation on a warship starting as soon as late ... -
Egypt displays recently discovered ancient tombs in Saqqara
Egypt this weekend displayed recently discovered, well-decorated ancient tombs at a Pharaonic necropolis just outside the capital Cairo. The five tombs were unearthed earlier this month ... -
The collapse of the Russian economy
Following the invasion (on February 24) of Ukraine by Russia, the EU and the Western world imposed severe sanctions, including financial ones. Transactions with seven of ... -
Monday, March 21, 2022 – edition no. 3975
* China, HK weigh exit from zero-Covid * Events canceled over the weekend due to Covid-19 scare * Five to eight typhoons this year * ...
