Golden Week visitors rise 11.6 pct

One week ago today Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng announced in a press conference his“difficult but necessary” decision to order the temporary closure of the city’s 41 casinos and dozens of other entertainment venues for half a month as part of his government’s string of measures to protect local citizens from the novel coronavirus epidemic.Now we all know that his cool-headed decision was not only, as he openly admitted, difficult and necessary but also absolutely expedient. In other

A driver of a scooter was injured yesterday after he hit a concrete mixer lorry in Taipa.At about 1 p.m. yesterday, the scooter collided with the left side of the lorry, which was travelling in the same direction as the scooter, on Rotunda Ouvidor Arriaga after travelling from Estrada Coronel Nicolau de Mesquita, according to the Fire Services Bureau (CB).The scooter was trapped between the left side of the lorry and the fence to the pavement. The male rider, who suffered a fracture to his left