Hong Kong | Embattled Apple Daily says it will close

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper will stop publishing today, following last week’s arrest of five editors and executives and the freezing of $2.3 million in assets under the city’s

Parents unhappy with delayed weather forecaster’s rainstorm reaction

Yesterday morning, the city recorded a peak rainfall of 80mm. The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) issued the yellow rainstorm warning signal at 7:10 a.m., and the red rainstorm warning

Gaming | Rigorous HK-Macau travel bubble prompts JP Morgan to scale down GGR forecast

JP Morgan scaled down its gross gaming revenue (GGR) prognosis for the third and fourth quarters of this year to 43% and 58% of pre-pandemic levels, vis-à-vis the earlier prediction

Gov’t claims no increase in requests for help on students’ mental health

The director of the Centre of Psycho-pedagogical Support and Special Education from the Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ), Chow Pui Leng, said to the media yesterday that the number

Gov’t urged to designate part of Yat Yuen Canidrome for new schools

Lawmaker Ella Lei has urged the government to reinstate the original plan to remodel the Macau Yat Yuen Canidrome — once a greyhound racing stadium located in Senhora de Fátima

Public Funding | Sonia Chan admits discrepancy between laws and reality

In the reply, Chan said that the two operative laws “no longer correspond to the current social situation and increasingly do not fulfill the demands of society regarding the supervision,

Hong Kong | Carrie Lam says US ‘beautifying’ security offenses

Foreign governments are “beautifying” acts that endanger national security in Hong Kong when they criticize the recent crackdown on a pro-democracy newspaper, the leader of the semiautonomous Chinese territory said

Commentators slam Health Code requirement

Lawmaker Au Kam San voiced the opinion that the government’s strategy on the two-day Covid-19 test validity period and expanded requirement on the Health Code was “illogical”, while commentator Larry

SARs to reopen border if Hong Kong sees no local case for another 14 days

Eligible visitors and returnees entering Macau from Hong Kong may soon be exempt from undergoing mandatory quarantine, provided that Hong Kong has no locally transmitted cases for 28 consecutive days,

Crime | Man accused of domestic violence for threatening wife

A 65-year-old man, a local resident working as a driver, is being accused of domestic violence after he allegedly repeatedly threatened and abused his wife, the Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson

China administers 1 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses

Nearly 1.03 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in China as of Sunday, the National Health Commission said yesterday, as the country pushes ahead with the largest vaccination

Taiwan to maintain Hong Kong office despite visa problem

Taiwan says it will continue operating its de facto consulate in Hong Kong in spite of visa difficulties for its staffers while also providing consular services online. The Taipei Economic and

MASTV exploits legal loophope to delay stipend

A loophole in Macau’s labor law has given the "disreputable" Macau Asia Satellite Television Company (MASTV) free rein to continue to not paying long-overdue stipends to their staff, lawmaker Ella

Gaming | Pansy Ho further reduces participation in MGM International

Pansy Ho, co-chairperson and executive director of the gaming operator MGM China Holdings Ltd (MGM), continues to reduce MGM’s participation in the Macau gaming operator’s parent company MGM Resorts International. According

Covid-19 | Health authorities disregard EU travel ‘white list’

Local health authorities are not taking into account the inclusion of Macau on European Union’s (EU) list of countries and regions, which are safe for travel and border restrictions are

Retired bus driver describes special shift as ‘difficult income’

A retired bus driver has stressed that the special “4-4 shift” is indeed a whole day’s work and he “would not want to do it again even if there was

May tourist arrivals up 9% month-on-month

May saw a 9% increase in tourist arrivals than April, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) has announced. The government’s statistic body pointed out that in May, the city has received

US sending Taiwan 2.5 million vaccine doses, tripling pledge

The U.S. is sending 2.5 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan, tripling an earlier pledge in a donation with both public health and geopolitical meaning. The shipment was

USD12 billion case | Former DICJ director testifies in LVS-Asian American case

Manuel Joaquim das Neves, the former director of the Macau Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), who was also one of the Macau Gaming Commission members responsible for selecting tenderers

MGTO closes Lisbon office to save money

The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has closed operations at its office in Lisbon, Portugal, in the hopes of streamlining operations and human resources, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, the

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