New Year’s Eve fireworks scrapped: govt

Commentary by Tom Fowdy* On April 18, the peer reviewed medical journal, The Lancet, published an article titled “Sustaining containment of COVID-19 in China.” The piece set out to explore how “The quick containment of COVID-19 in China is impressive and sets an encouraging example for other countries” citing what it describes as “aggressive public health interventions ... early detection of cases, contact tracing, and population behavioral change” as paramount to the

A woman from the mainland was arrested on Monday for stealing a male mainlander’s smartphone and fraudulently obtaining cash of around 130,000 yuan (165,000 patacas) from his account on an online payment platform, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference in Zape yesterday.Ho identified the suspect as a 30-year-old surnamed Yang. He noted that the victim is a man in his sixties who regularly visits Macau to gamble in casinos and is renting a flat in