Gaming | VIP Q1 GGR outperforms brokerages’ projections

The VIP segment raked in approximately MOP9.13 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of 2021, up 19.7% quarter-to-quarter, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau revealed. The actual VIP performance surpassed

TECHNOLOGY | Tencent’s Ma dangles billions in aid as antitrust scrutiny grows

Tencent Holdings Ltd. founder Pony Ma pledged $7.7 billion toward curing societal ills and lifting China’s countryside out of poverty, echoing Xi Jinping’s priorities at a time Beijing is tightening

Covid-19 | Hong Kong to ban flights from the Philippines, India, Pakistan

Hong Kong will ban flights from India, Pakistan and the Philippines for 14 days starting from today as the city reported the first two cases with highly transmissible virus variant

Gov’t says US-Japan actions are stoking division

China hit back at the U.S.-Japan show of alliance during talks between President Joe Biden and Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, calling it an “ironic attempt of stoking division.” China said

Boao Forum returns with investment in focus

China is signaling it’s open for business with the resumption of its high-profile Boao Forum for Asia, an opportunity for the government to make a renewed effort to lure foreign

Great Times | Where Wedding Dreams are Made

Everyone has a dream wedding in mind, and when it comes to wedding décor, most people walk miles and go to great length to find the ideal

Aerospace | NASA’s Mars helicopter takes flight, first for another planet

NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars yesterday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet. The triumph was

This day in history | 1972 Apollo 16 safely on Moon after engine crisis

The Apollo 16 mission has landed on the Moon after a seven-hour crisis that nearly aborted the mission altogether. Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke became the fifth team to step

Bahamas tops China in ranking of central bank digital currencies

Mainland China is third behind the Bahamas and Cambodia in a ranking of the maturity of central banks’ retail digital currency projects, according to a report from PwC. More than 60

Basketball | Kings snap 9-game losing streak, beat Mavericks 121-107

De’Aaron Fox had 30 points and 12 rebounds, Harrison Barnes scored 24 and Terence Davis II added 23 as the Sacramento Kings snapped a nine-game losing streak with a 121-107

The Buzz | European Union to purchase 100 million more vaccine doses

Pharmaceutical company BioNTech and its U.S. partner Pfizer say they will provide 100 million more doses of their coronavirus vaccine to the European Union this year. The two companies said yesterday

Tottenham fires manager Jose Mourinho after 17 months

Tottenham fired Jose Mourinho yesterday after only 17 months in charge, and just as he was preparing to coach the club in the League Cup final. Mourinho was hired in November

World Views | EU’s bond bonanza will reshape the capital markets

The fixed-income landscape is set to be transformed as the European Union revs up to borrow $1 trillion by selling bonds in its own right. While talk of creating a market to

Tuesday, April 20, 2021 – edition no. 3756

— The government proposes to inject an additional MOP9.11 billion to the 2021 budget to facilitate the third stimulus scheme and other spending * New Immigration law | Iris recognition system

Covid-19 | Resident diagnosed with Bell’s palsy after vaccination

A 27-year-old male resident of Macau has been reportedly diagnosed with facial nerve paralysis, known as Bell’s palsy, after being inoculated with a vaccine against Covid-19, the Novel Coronavirus Response

DSAL launches subsidized training course in English

  The Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) has launched a new subsidized training course on Western Restaurant Service in the English language which will increase the vocational skills of unemployed or recently

CE attends Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan

  Macau’s Chief Executive (CE) Ho Iat Seng is leading a delegation to take part in the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021 in Hainan from today until tomorrow. Liu Xianfa,

MGTO to select 700 applicants for helicopter tour by lots

The highly celebrated “Helicopter Flight Experience Tour” received several thousand applications on its debut registration day on April 15 — far exceeding its quota of some 700 passengers — pushing

Tourist arrivals hit record high since pandemic

Tourist arrivals in Macau reached a total of 191,828 visitors from April 9 to 15, showing an upward trend in recent days. On Friday, the SAR welcomed 34,252 visitor arrivals, registering

Scoot cancels SG-Macau route flights

The flights from Macau to Singapore intended to be operated by Singapore’s low-cost airline Scoot have been canceled, according to an email the Times had access to. Earlier this month, Scoot

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