Author: Paulo Coutinho, MDT
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‘Macau should lead in hospitality’ in GBA
With the largest stock of 5-star hotels worldwide, the city should set the standard in hospitality in the Greater Bay Area and Greater China, Wilfred Wong, ... -
Macau gaming revenue jumps 82.5% as China travel resumed
The city’s casinos saw gross gaming revenue (GGR) surge in January as China’s reopening and the week-long Lunar New Year break sparked an influx of visitors to the ... -
Morgan Stanley raises Jan daily GGR estimate to MOP250M
Visitation numbers to Macau have picked up since China eased its zero-Covid policy on Jan. 8, although Chinese New Year’s (CNY) visitor numbers will be “the ... -
Gov’t drops regular testing for key groups
Health authorities have announced that testing for key groups who need to undergo regular nucleic acid tests (NATs) has been canceled from today. An announcement from ... -
Macau Daily Times won’t publish print edition Wednesday
Due to a string of COVID-19 infections among Macau Daily Times staff, we are unable to publish the newspaper tomorrow (Wednesday). However, MDT website will be ... -
Gov’t to announce gaming tender results tomorrow
The Macau Government will possibly announce the preliminary results of the international tender for six gaming concessions at a press conference tomorrow morning (Saturday), which was ... -
T8 chance ‘medium to relatively high’ tomorrow
Macau’s typhoon signal no. 3 is expected to remain at least until tomorrow as Typhoon Nalgae is closer to Macau than expected. The Meteorological and Geophysics ... -
China is debating possible reduction to Covid quarantine for travelers: report
Chinese officials are debating whether to reduce the amount of time people coming into the country must spend in mandatory quarantine, Bloomberg reported today [Thursday], citing ... -
‘Dream goes on’
Weeks before the deadline to submit a bid for the gaming tender (September 14), Wilfred Wong is optimistic about Sands China Limited (SCL) being able to ... -
The Covidian Era
Well into year 3 of the Covidian Era, Macau Daily Times today marks 15 years of uninterrupted publication which should be a date of celebration and ... -
Ships sink after blaze returns following initial extinguishment
Fire and smoke reignited early today on a fishing ship that was destroyed Monday evening as they caught fire, before some of them were partially submerged. ... -
Editorial | Imagine
Imagine a world without Covid. And no “religion” too. Lennon’s hopeful words echo strongly in my mind more than ever four decades after I first heard ... -
Vaccinated Macau residents allowed to cross the border: Zhuhai gov’t
Starting from tomorrow (Monday), locals can enter Zhuhai via Macau checkpoints with a negative NAT valid for 48 hours and a history of vaccination, Radio Macau ... -
Editorial | Numbers say it all?
Yesterday’s AL elections, apart from winners and losers (a figure that wasn’t available at the time of this writing) have one major distinction when compared to ... -
Interview | Jorge Costa Oliveira: Hengqin-Macau: Legislation should be implemented ‘field by field, subject by subject’
Jorge Costa Oliveira, a veteran expert in international law is hopeful about the materialization of the “Master Plan of the Development of the Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation ... -
Editorial | The Times turns 14 amidst anxiety and fear
We enter our 14th anniversary with mixed feelings. On the one hand, we rejoice for such an achievement in a place and an era so full ... -
Breaking News: Gov’t following up matters after suspension of BioNTech jab in Macau
The Health Bureau held an online meeting this morning with Fosun Pharma following the company’s request to suspend utilization of a batch of BioNTech-produced COVID-19 vaccines, ... -
Gaming | Lawrence Ho predicts Macau recovery in second quarter
The gaming sector could begin showing signs of recovery as early as mid-March, said Lawrence Ho, chairman and CEO of Melco Resorts and Entertainment in a ... -
47th case: One among 109 returnees tests positive for Covid-19
One of the returnees who arrived in Macau last night (Thursday) tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the government announced. 109 residents from 14 countries returned ... -
Lobo Vilela resigns from government
Lawyer and legal expert on gaming, António Lobo Vilela, 48, will leave the government by the end of the year of his own volition. Vilela tendered ... -
Editorial | The year of living dangerously
It was the worst of times. It was the best of times. Who will want to remember 2020? Not you, not us, not anyone who has ... -
Editorial | October Fest
Everyone is looking and forecasting visitor turnout for Golden Week waiting and hoping for the return of mass tourism. But they will all fail. No matter ... -
Editorial | Airport 2020
In November 1995, on a very windy day, the Macau International Airport was inaugurated with pomp and fanfare in the materialization of a long-time dream of ... -
WikiLeaks’ Assange in UK court to fight US extradition bid
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in a London court today (Monday) to fight a U.S. extradition request, at a high-stakes hearing that was delayed by the ... -
Typhoon signal 10 hoisted at 5am
Weather Bureau update: Typhoon Higos is moving in a northwest direction and is forecasted to make landfall at the coast between Zhuhai and Yangjiang during morning. ... -
China says US damaging global trade with Huawei sanctions
China accused Washington of damaging global trade with sanctions that threaten to cripple tech giant Huawei and said today (Tuesday) it will protect Chinese companies but ... -
Editorial | Soft causes
For the first time in the history of Hong Kong, a newsroom was raided and searched by the police. The headquarters of Next Digital media group, ... -
Taiwanese StarLux to add flights to Macau in August
Taiwanese startup carrier StarLux Airlines said today (Friday) it will add service to Macau and Malaysia starting in August, Central News Agency (CNA) reported. The airline ... -
Editorial | Truth or dare
“The truth is nice but a rumor is priceless.” Mortdecai (fictional character in ‘Mortdecai’) We did not have to wait for a revision of our own ... -
Exclusive interview | Wilfred Wong sees ‘no reason to bar visitors from Guangdong’
In his first interview since the renewal of his contract as president of Sands China Limited (SCL) for a four-year term, Wilfred Wong says he is ... -
Asia Today: 4th-worst-hit India sees rural virus cases soar
India’s coronavirus caseload has risen to 425,282 as infections soar in rural areas to which migrant workers fleeing major cities have returned in recent weeks. India’s ... -
Editorial | The serpent’s egg
Police authorities have denied the organization of the annual June 4 vigil in remembrance of the victims of Tiananmen on the grounds of public health safety. ... -
The Buzz | 13 years a Times: the ‘teens’
Thirteen years ago, only someone with a crystal ball would have been able to predict how the year 2020 would turn out. Macau practically isolated from ... -
Top court upholds police ban of June 4 vigil this year
The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) has ruled that a decision by the police to ban this year’s June 4 vigil due to the government’s Covid-19 ... -
Ho’s bold ideas for his homelands
A group of Hongkongers “led by casino tycoon Stanley Ho, is gathering support for the idea of leasing the territory to the United Nations after 1997 as ...
