Hong Kong faces delay in giving cash away

Hong Kong was ahead of most of the world when in February it announced a handout of almost $1,300 to residents suffering from a recession worsened by the coronavirus. By

Spain virus cases pass Italy, where daily deaths are falling

Spain’s Covid-19 cases surpassed Italy as Europe’s two main epicenters continue to struggle to curtail the virus, with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announcing plans to extend the country’s lockdown until

This Day in history | 1994 Rwanda presidents’ plane ‘shot down’

The presidents of the African states of Rwanda and Burundi have been killed in a plane crash near the Rwandan capital, Kigali. Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Burundi’s Cyprian Ntayamira were

Africa braces for ‘complete collapse of economies’

Some of Uganda’s poorest people used to work here, on the streets of Kampala, as fruit sellers sitting on the pavement or as peddlers of everything from handkerchiefs to roasted

Football | Union: 30% pay cut for EPL players would harm health service

English Premier League players failed to reach an agreement on Saturday with clubs to take 30% pay cuts during the coronavirus pandemic, escalating a bitter public row as their union

The Buzz | Mexican author calls on writers to ‘document’ pandemic

Cooped up at her Bronx home with her daughter and a niece because of the coronavirus pandemic, Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli says she has lowered the “volume and speed” of

Asian Americans mobilize on social media to face off attacks

Kyle Navarro was kneeling down to unlock his bicycle when he noticed an older white man staring at him. Navarro, who is Filipino, tried to ignore him, but that soon

World Briefs

  CHINA Wang Quanzhang, a well-known Chinese rights lawyer, was released from prison yesterday after being held for more than four years, his wife said. It was unclear whether he would

World Views | What I learned from trying to cut my own hair

  Writing to shareholders this week, BlackRock Inc.s chief executive officer Larry Fink ruminated on how business and society will be reshaped by the searing experience of the new coronavirus: “People

Monday, April 6, 2020 – edition no. 3508

– The suspension of Golden bus services on the delta bridge leaves no remaining public transportation links to neighboring Hong Kong * Non-serious Macau patients said to have low risk of

44th Covid-19 case registered in Macau: Gov

A new imported case of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus has been detected in Macau late Saturday bringing to 44 the number of confirmed cases, health authorities said early

Ho Iat Seng leads a silence tribute to mourn Covid-19 victims

Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng, led Saturday Government officials to stand in a three-minute silence, in tribute to the victims in China of the novel coronavirus and its associated infection

Government has no plan to close bars and pubs

The local government has no plan to close bars, a measure which has been implemented by the Hong Kong SAR, according to Lo Iok Long, medical director of the Conde

Education regulator pledges help for SEN students during pandemic

The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) has announced that the department is stepping up its measures in providing support to students with Special Education Needs (SEN) amid the closures

Tourism regulator admits shortcomings among some quarantine hotels

  Some of the designated hotels currently used by the government for quarantine purposes may have served unhygienic food to guests, Inês Chan, official from the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO),

Economy secretary says 10B pataca relief fund is not for gaming companies

Gaming companies will receive nothing from the government’s 10 billion pataca Covid-19 relief fund, Secretary for Economy and Finance Lei Wai Nong said yesterday. For the time being, no details have

Administrative Court rules against Polytex compensation claim

The Administrative Court has ruled against Polytex Import and Export Company Limited, which filed a compensation claim of 25.4 billion patacas against the government over losses related to the reclaiming

Public schools willing to accept students from closed private schools

The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) can assist with the teaching of students affected by the closure of non-tertiary private schools, according to the Second Standing Committee of the

Man arrested for kidnapping sex worker

  The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a man after he kidnapped a woman who illegally entered Macau in January to work as a sex worker. On March 30, she provided sexual

UM to collaborate with research institution on cancer therapy

An agreement on the establishment of a joint cancer research center has recently been signed between the University of Macau (UM) and the national-level Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the

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