By-election for legislature’s business sector seat slated for Nov 24

A former National Taiwan University (NTU) student from Macau, surnamed Chan, was sentenced to 10 months in prison, with the option of paying a NT$600,000 (151,000 patacas) fine to escape the jail term, for killing two cats in Taipei, according to Taiwan media reports yesterday.The Taipei District Court handed down the ruling yesterday after Taipei prosecutors had sought two six-month sentences for Chan in September. According to the reports, the ruling can be appealed.The judge said yesterday

   Macau's 30 casinos run by six rival operators generated gross gaming revenue (GGR) of 19.3 billion patacas (US$2.39 billion) last month, a year-on-year growth of 67.0 percent, the Gaming and Inspection Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has announced today.   Last month's GGR was the highest since last October, which stood at 19.5 billion patacas.    Last month's GGR reached 77.5 percent of the one in pre-pandemic January 2019, which amounted to 24.9 billion