Author: Daniel Beitler, MDT
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Gaming | MGM-Boyd deal ends saga of US junket scrutiny
MGM Resorts International finally reconciled its Atlantic City complications last week, after it agreed to buy Boyd Gaming’s half of Borgata Hotel for USD900 million. This ... -
Brexit or Bremain? | Brits in Macau want to stay in EU, though many cannot vote
The lingering question of whether the United Kingdom will remain in the European Union will be at least partially decided by the referendum to be conducted ... -
Ruth Boston | VP for destination marketing and sales at Sands China: ‘Japan is among our top five markets’
Ruth Boston is the vice president for destination marketing and sales at Sands China Ltd. She attended the Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) and tourism ... -
Sands China targets Japan in campaign to rebrand Macau
The Sands China Tokyo roadshow and banquet dinner were held yesterday at the Conrad Tokyo hotel, where around 120 Japanese travel agents and corporate individuals were ... -
Sands China trade show hits Tokyo
Sands China will kick off its Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) roadshow in Tokyo, Japan later today, just one of numerous international trade fairs which ... -
Economy | GDP fall slows to 13pct, growth may be on horizon
Macau’s economy contracted by 13.3 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2016, according to new data released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), after ... -
Animal rights | Canidrome: Irish authorities seek to block greyhound exports by year’s close
The Irish Department of Agriculture intends to seek legal reform to give the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) the power to prevent the export of dogs to ... -
Animal rights | Canidrome: Anima in fresh airline negotiations as Canidrome closure looks more likely
The president of animal rights group Anima (Macau) is heading back to Europe next month, and again at various times later this year, to continue spearheading ... -
Public Art | Cloud Pavilion sculpture unveiled beside Sai Van Lake
Organized by the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) and supported by the Macao Foundation and City University of Hong Kong, an opening ceremony for a new ... -
Craig Samborski | President of Draw Events: Event producer ‘stunned’ over amount Macau paid for giant duck
Craig Samborski is the President of event production company Draw Events, and has produced concerts and festivals in the U.S. and Canada since 1992. Last year, ... -
Belgian products promoted in Macau
An event showcasing Belgian food and beverage products took place Monday night in the Macau University of Science and Technology’s (MUST) training restaurant, The Seasons. Nine ... -
Animal welfare | Anima refuses AL invitation to preview protection law
The Society for the Protection of Animals, an animal rights group also known as Anima (Macau), has published a letter addressed to the President of the ... -
Our Desk | One Country, Two Straits
In the wake of Tsai Ing-wen’s ascension to the presidency of Taipei, the long-held desire in Beijing that the semi-autonomous models of Macau and Hong Kong ... -
Taiwan’s new president | Xinhua praises Macau, HK media for Taipei criticism
Beijing’s official media outlet, Xinhua news agency, has praised the response of some of Macau and Hong Kong’s media to the Taiwanese President’s inauguration speech on ... -
HK property market | New film series addresses sky-high prices
Maybe you can inform me if you have a flat [that is] a little cheaper than that…” said 20-year-old apartment-hunter Jenny Wong during a call to ... -
Foreign-language periodicals | Qing dynasty used Macau press for intelligence on foreigners
The European Union Academic Program – Macau (EUAP-M) organized a talk last week at the University of Macau (UM) on the development of the press in ... -
Canidrome renewal | IACM conducts regular inspections, no comment on greyhound treatment
The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) has clarified that it conducts regular inspections of the greyhounds housed at Macau’s Yat Yuen Canidrome facility, though it ... -
Jinan University donation | Government losing ‘credibility’ and ‘trust’ with Macau youth
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets on Sunday in a large-scale demonstration in opposition to the MSAR’s controversial RMB100 million (around MOP123m) donation to Jinan ... -
Demographics | Chinese Millennials unlikely to fit generational mold set by West
Millennials, also known as “Generation Y,” are the demographic cohort termed by experts in the West as those born between 1980 and 2000. Exhibiting shared traits ... -
Rubber Duck Macau Tour | Floating artwork raises doubts over hefty MOP6m price tag
The giant rubber duck, situated close to the Macau Science Center, has made quite the splash in Macau since its arrival at the end of last ... -
Gaming | Analysts united over negligible effect of proxy betting ban
Gaming analysts are united over their prediction that the ban on proxy betting put into practice earlier this week by the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau ... -
Gaming | Proxy betting banned as mobiles excluded from VIP tables
The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has announced a ban on proxy voting at VIP tables through mobile phones. The regulator told GGRAsia that as ... -
Our Desk | On inspiring bus drivers
Bus companies in Macau are expected to lose around 10 percent of their drivers to retirement within the next four years, said Lam Hin San, director ... -
Our Desk | On the tenacity of protesters
One has to admire the persistence of the Pearl Horizon unit buyers in the face of ever decreasing signs of settlement. A total of 250 residents ...
