Update by Macau govt on COVID-19 entry curbs (II)

A total of 57 Macau residents were evacuated today by the local government from novel coronavirus-stricken Hubei province on an Air Macau charter flight. Macau government officials described the airlift as a "success."Originally, 59 Macau ID card holders were planned to be on the flight. However, according to a press conference at the local airport shortly after the flight had touched down, one Macau resident failed to arrive at the airport in Wuhan, while a 16-year-old boy was

The government should speed up its processing of the 27 applications to run budget hotels in Macau, legislator Chan Meng Kam, who heads the legislature’s Follow-up Committee for Public Administration Affairs, said yesterday.The committee met yesterday to follow up on the government’s current review of the law on illegal accommodation. Briefing reporters afterwards, Chan quoted officials attending the meeting as saying that the 27 applications involved over 1,700 hotel rooms. Concerning