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— China’s top envoy, Fu Ziying, tasked to ‘supervise, guide, coordinate, and support’ Macau’s national security affairs * Macau to follow | quarantine-free travel between Hong Kong and mainland from Dec.
* Card trap — VPN firm says Macau at a high-risk level of credit card data leak: 0.8 on a 0-1 scale * The Karl Lagerfeld, Cotai * USJ aiming to grow by
— Gaming revenue turns upwards in November to MOP6.7b, while industry faces headwinds after Alvin Chau’s fall that can lead to the firing of thousands of workers from Suncity * Policy
* Omicron brings vaccine inequity home to roost * Macau reservoirs | 7 to 12 days of water supply after expansion * Junket scandal | Suncity to suspend VIP operations today: report *
— Chau in preventive custody * HK, Mainland closer to quarantine-free travel to Macau benefit * Policy Address | More ‘Eyes in the Sky’ coming soon: Wong * By the year end, five
* Jeopardizing junkets — Junket mogul Alvin Chau arrested for mainland illicit gambling; JP Morgan anticipates ‘immediate’ contraction of gaming VIP revenues in response * Economy chief points the way to recovery
* Meta Macau — Metaverse technology of parallel universes to help Macau attract visitors globally, but city should adopt new business model, expert says * More health code upload failures for NAT
— Fitch Ratings says zero-tolerance Covid strategy hampers Macau’s gaming recovery * Wynn issues investor alert after court defeat * Policy Address | André Cheong: 2022 will mostly be a year of
* Ruling on thin ice — Court of Final Appeal rules against gaming concessionaire Wynn on Dore junket case, creating a precedent that could affect an industry’s sector already walking on
— Xi Jinping says his country will not seek dominance over Southeast Asia or bully its smaller neighbors amid ongoing friction over the South China Sea * Creative industry calls for
* the University of Macau and NYU Shanghai launched a mobile application to monitor students’ mental health * Unregistered Macau Pass holders to pay full fare next month * The city’s GDP
— Gov’t dismisses safety concerns on personal data gathered by new tracing function on health app, saying it will be used for statistical purposes only – and with users’ consent *
— China, US to ease restrictions on each other’s correspondent journalists * Resident’s first free NAT not uploaded to health code * Former lawmaker Sulu Sou insists protest, bargaining rights necessary in
— Gaming concessions likely to be extended beyond 2022 if law is not ready in time, Ho Iat Seng said in a press conference after delivering the Policy Address at
— Melco tops Phase 2 of Studio City, confident in region’s long-term development amid downturn * China-US | Xi meets Biden with Taiwan in the middle * If Covid-19 infections remain stable
— The tourism bureau proposed 16 new action plans to promote quality tourism as it aims to reach up to 41 million tourist arrivals in 2025 * COP26 | Nations compromise
* The Essence of Xi — Communist Party of China passes landmark resolution on party’s major achievements in the last 100 years and engraves Xi Jinping’s thought in its DNA * A
— 133 drivers from Macau, HK, mainland to race next week in Guia Circuit, tickets pre-sale surpasses 60% * Quarantine-free travel moves ‘goal-post’: Academic * Tourism | Association leader sees no blockage
— The government announced a new scheme to attract top talent to Macau in key areas of big health, sports and culture, high-end tech and modern finance * Caught in illegal
— Communist Party central committee in plenary session this week to reinforce Xi Jinping’s leadership and make him an ‘equal’ to Mao and Deng: observers * Times report | Welfare bureau
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