Police arrest 8 locals for illegal gambling

The government announced yesterday that it has requested the Legislative Assembly (AL) remove from the agenda for tomorrow’s plenary session the discussion on the outline of its controversial bill which proposed the transfer of 60 billion patacas from the government’s financial reserves for the setting-up of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) Investment and Development Fund.The bill was to amend the government’s 2019 budget so that the government could allocate the 60 billion

Commentary        BEIJING – As China is battling a COVID-19 resurgence attributable to the Omicron variant with tens of thousands of new infections reported a day, a dynamic zero-COVID approach remains crucial and necessary for the country to rein in the highly contagious and elusive virus.The Chinese mainland reported 1,351 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 25,111 new asymptomatic carriers on Saturday, mostly in Shanghai and northeastern Jilin province. Yet China has not