European governments remained at loggerheads yesterday over measures to help the economy weather the coronavirus outbreak, breaking off a meeting of finance officials who clashed over
Secretary Lei Wai Nong announced yesterday the details of the new Covid-19 relief fund which amounts to 13.6 billion patacas overall, on top of the previously announced 30
* More vouchers for all — SMEs take little, migrants excluded in 13.6B relief fund * Masked crowds fill Wuhan’s streets, trains as lockdown ends * 70 million patacas spent on residents who
After 24 hours of absence of new infection in the second wave of Covid-19 in the city, Macau has its 45th patient of the disease confirmed by the Health Bureau
An extra round of e-vouchers and salary subsidy for eligible employees, among other financial subsidies, will be issued later this year, Lei Wai Nong, Secretary for Economy and Finance has
The Macau Civil Servants Association (ATFPM) met yesterday with the Chief Executive (CE) Ho Iat Seng, proposing that an extra salary be granted to all frontline workers that have been
The local government has no plan to use the city’s tourism fund as means to subsidize tour guides’ income, according to Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Director of Macau Government
Hundreds of the Macau SAR government’s own properties are being left unused, with lawmakers being given an “unacceptable” explanation of the situation. Yesterday, the Follow-up Committee of Public Administration Affairs of
The Court of Second Instance (TSI) has dismissed the appeals filed with the court in a case in which the government declared the expiration of a land concession, as well
Lawmaker Wong Kit Cheng is calling on the local government to consider benevolent measures for non-local workers who face problems with their visas and lodging. The lawmaker hopes that the local
A shortage of essential medications is expected to gradually affect local patients as both sea and land public passenger transports between the two Special Administrative Regions have been halted. Lo Iek
The application period for the salary subsidy scheme administered by the government for the first quarter of 2020, subsidizing employees over age 40, among other criteria, begins today and will
The developer and promoter of the troubled The 13 Hotel has requested a standstill from its bank to avoid the enforcement of security and liquidation of the company, after the
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in intensive care yesterday fighting the coronavirus, while authorities in New York and elsewhere in Europe hoped that an apparent plateau of deaths and
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent the night in the intensive care unit of a London hospital with the new coronavirus, but is not on a ventilator, a senior government
Stuck in the same bind as many other Chinese farmers whose crops are rotting in their fields, Jiang Yuewu is preparing to throw out a 500-ton harvest of lotus root
Residents of the Californian town of Carmel have overwhelmingly voted for actor Clint Eastwood as their mayor. The turnout was double the norm in the picturesque seaside town, 80 miles (128
A statistical model cited by the White House generated a slightly less grim figure yesterday for a first wave of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. — a
MGM recently donated MOP300,000 to the Macau Holy House of Mercy’s Welfare Shop project for the 8th consecutive year in support of its food hamper distribution to over 360 local underprivileged families, The
Chinese firms are getting ready for discount deals in Europe, where the coronavirus pandemic has sent companies scrambling for cash to stay in business. Bankers have recently seen a spike in requests from
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