Yearly Archives: 2022
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Gov’t finally retrieves plots A3 and A4 of Nam Van
The government has finally retrieved two plots of land located at Nam Van Bay, identified as Lots A3 and A4. The two adjacent plots, totaling 8,732 ... -
UM points to Hong Kong university as benchmark for tuition fee hike
The University of Macau (UM) has justified hiking tuition fees by up to 40% by explaining that the university took into consideration tuition fees in Hong ... -
MUST survey finds local consumers losing confidence in spending
Macau consumers showed less confidence spending on commodities in the fourth quarter of last year, according to a study by the Macau University of Science and ... -
Covid-19 | Tianjin on partial lockdown after omicron found
State broadcaster CCTV said the government has divided Tianjin and its 14 million residents into three levels of restrictions, starting with lockdown areas where people are ... -
Diplomacy | Beijing accuses US of inciting Lithuania over Taiwan
Beijing yesterday accused Washington of inciting Lithuania to “contain China” in a feud over the status of self-ruled Taiwan after U.S. officials expressed support for the ... -
Diplomacy | Arab Gulf foreign ministers head to Beijing for meetings
Foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia and other Arab Gulf states are visiting Beijing for meetings with officials from the world’s second largest economy, a leading consumer ... -
Sri Lanka seeks Chinese debt restructuring amid crisis
The president of debt-ridden Sri Lanka yesterday [Macau time] asked China for the restructuring of its loans and access to preferential credit for imports of essential ... -
Philippines | Authorities report third day of record virus cases
The Philippines yesterday reported a record high number of new COVID-19 cases for the third day, logging 33,169 infections. The positivity rate, or percentage of tested ... -
Uganda | Schools reopen, ending world’s longest lockdown
Uganda’s schools reopened to students yesterday, ending the world’s longest school disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The reopening caused traffic congestion in some areas of ... -
This day in history | 1973 First Open University degrees awarded
The first graduates from the Open University (OU) have been awarded their degrees after two years studying from home. Out of the 1,000 students who sat ... -
Gaming | Newly affirmed, tribe looks at casino plans with fresh eyes
As he begins his first full year in office, the new head of a Massachusetts tribe says he intends to take a cautious approach to gambling ... -
Figure Skating | Chen wins sixth straight US championship
Nathan Chen had landed some of the most difficult jumps in figure skating, soaring through the air with a dizzying array of quads and flawlessly stringing ... -
Several with grave injuries after NYC fire that killed 19
Doctors worked yesterday to save the lives of several people gravely injured when smoke from a fire knocked them out or trapped them in their apartments ... -
The Buzz | Michael Lang, Woodstock festival co-creator, dies at 77
Michael Lang, a co-creator and promoter of the 1969 Woodstock music festival that served as a touchstone for generations of music fans, has died. Michael Pagnotta, ... -
China Daily | Racist remarks sign of persistent xenophobia
Shelley Luther, a Republican candidate for the Texas House of Representatives, put the racism against Chinese in the United States and its neo-McCarthyism on full display ... -
Tuesday, January 11, 2022 – edition no. 3930
* Real estate rebound? — Property agency confident city will see 6,000 residential transactions this year * Gov’t retrieves plots A3 and A4 of Nam Van ... -
Gov’t says Taiwan report on Macau is ‘baseless and biased’
The Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) government has issued a statement refuting in its entirety the content of a report issued by Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council ... -
Housing prices drop due to Peninsula properties
The price index for residential property dropped by 0.9% between September and November last year, when compared with the period from August to October 2021, a ... -
Secretary Ao Ieong curbs association’s CNY dining events
Local associations should avoid organizing Lunar New Year celebrations that involve catering, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao Ieong recently told the press. She ... -
Flight operations continue on from Singapore to Macau
Scoot flights from Macau to Singapore are continuing on as scheduled despite the travel ban imposed by Macau authorities to deter the spread of Covid-19 variants. ... -
Crime | Man arrested for domestic violence
A 66-year-old local man has been arrested on allegations of repeated acts of domestic violence against his wife, the Judiciary Police (PJ) announced. The police disclosed that ... -
IFTM launches new program, partnership agreement with Swiss Education Group
The Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM) has launched a Smart Technology in Hospitality and Tourism postgraduate program in line with the SAR’s “Tourism+” policy and ... -
Wynn Macau executive confident in MOP100b GGR for this year
Vice Chairman and Executive Director of Wynn Macau, Limited Linda Chen, is confident the city will obtain the government- estimated gross gambling revenue (GGR) of MOP100 ... -
UM develops AI tech to create TCM-based drugs for Alzheimer’s
University of Macau’s (UM) Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences (ICMS) has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based virtual screening algorithm and a cross-species Alzheimer’s disease (AD) drug ... -
Foreign Minister Wang in Sri Lanka to discuss Belt and Road
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was in Sri Lanka on yesterday seeking to advance Beijing’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative as the island nation tries to ... -
Chinese immigrant attacked in NYC dies months later
A Chinese immigrant who was brutally attacked in April while collecting cans in East Harlem has died of his injuries, and his case is now deemed ... -
Filmmaker Zhang Yimou returns for Olympics opening ceremony
Renowned Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou is promising a simpler opening ceremony for next month’s Beijing Winter Games with a bold and unprecedented way of lighting the ... -
Tianjin testing all residents after Omicron found
The numbers are small, but the major port of Tianjin may be facing China’s first outbreak of omicron of any size, less than four weeks before ... -
One of two Covid cases at Hong Kong party was false positive
One of two people who attended a large gathering with senior Hong Kong officials and was believed to be infected with COVID-19 turned out to be ... -
Deltacron | New Covid-19 variant detected in Cyprus
A new Covid-19 variant which was dubbed Deltacron has been identified in Cyprus, but it is not presently a source of alarm, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas ... -
US, Japan agree to keep troops on base to curb Covid spread
The U.S. and Japan yesterday agreed to keep American troops within their bases as worries grew about a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in the country. ... -
This day in history | 1985 Gas blast kills eight in Putney
Eight people have been killed in an explosion in a prestigious block of flats in Putney, south-west London. Dozens were also injured when the blast demolished ... -
Golf US Women’s | Open purse soars to USD10 million on fabled courses
Long considered the biggest event in women’s golf, the U.S. Women’s Open now has prize money and future sites to match. The U.S. Golf Association announced ... -
Intel reports repeatedly failed to forecast Capitol riot
Intelligence reports compiled by the U.S. Capitol Police in the days before last year’s insurrection envisioned only an improbable or remote risk of violence, even as ... -
The Buzz | UK gov’t advisers recommend against fourth vaccine dose
U.K. government advisers have recommended against giving a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine to nursing home residents and people over 80 because data shows that a ...
