Snapshots of daily life as city tackles COVID-19

Rua do Regedor, one of the pre-COVID-19 busiest roads in Taipa Village,  is  starkly quiet in the afternoon. People get on a bus in the early evening in the city centre.Photos taken yesterday by Camy Tam and Monica Leong

June 9, 2020 | BY admin

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COVID-19 cases in US top 2 million, no new case in Macau in 61 days

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States has gone beyond two million, the real-time statistics reference website worldometers.info reported today. According to the website, the US had 2,007,531 confirmed novel coronavirus disease cases as of 6:30 p.m. today (Macau time), with 112,471 deaths. The US accounted for 28 percent of the world's COVID-19 cases and 27 percent of its novel coronavirus fatalities. Meanwhile, the Health Bureau (SSM) said at its daily press

June 8, 2020 | BY admin

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Gaming tax receipts fall 56 pct in Jan-May

The government's income from gross gaming revenue taxes fell 56.5 percent year-on-year to 21.0 billion patacas (US$2.6 billion), the Macau Financial Services Bureau (DSF) announced today. Gross gaming revenue (GGR) is defined as the difference between the amount of money gamblers wager minus the amount that they win. Macau's six rival gaming operators pay 35 percent of their GGR as direct tax to the government. GGR taxes generated 83.4 percent of the government's total current revenue

June 8, 2020 | BY admin

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Thai restaurant kitchen gutted by smoky & smelly fire

A particularly smoky and smelly fire gutted the kitchen of a Thai restaurant near the Horta da Mitra Municipal Market on Saturday night, according to the Fire Services Bureau (CB).The fire erupted at around 11:30 p.m. in the kitchen of the well-known Restaurant Kruatheque in Rua de Henrique de Macedo. In Cantonese, the restaurant is known as “Chyuh Nguk” (“Kitchen House”). “Krua” means “kitchen” in Thai. The restaurant has been one of Macau’s most popular Thai eateries for

June 8, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau Health Code holders can pass through Barrier Gate e-channels: govt

When entering Macau via the Barrier Gate border checkpoint, Macau residents and non-resident workers whose Macau Health Code indicates green and displays a valid nucleic acid test (NAT) certificate can now be exempted from medical examinations and health inspections by Macau Health Bureau (SSM) staff and directly pass through e-channels at the checkpoint, provided that they have generated or renewed their “Macau Health Code” less than six hours before, the local government’s Novel

June 8, 2020 | BY admin

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West’s double standard over protests in US & HK laid bare

Commentary b y Chen Weihua*The protests sweeping across the United States over the death of African-American George Floyd expose, once again, the deep-rooted racial divide in the country. They also expose the double standard of Western politicians and media when talking about the violent demonstrations in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) over the past year.The irony could not have been more obvious when US president vowed on May 29 to revoke the special treatment accorded to

June 8, 2020 | BY admin

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UM launches Centre for Regional Oceans

The University of Macau (UM) said in a statement last week that it has “recently” held a plaque unveiling ceremony for its Centre for Regional Oceans under the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST).  The statement did not say when exactly the ceremony took place. The establishment of the centre symbolises the university’s dedication to promote research studies in regional oceanography in order to support Macau’s economic diversification and contribute to the long-term

June 8, 2020 | BY admin

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IAM still looking for suitable place for ‘healthy’ prairie dog

The Macau Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) is still looking for a suitable place for a prairie dog found abandoned in Taipa in January before it can meet the public, IAM information officer Pong Sio Wan has told The Macau Post Daily.The bureau said in a statement last month that one of two prairie dogs, which was found abandoned in the public Reservoir Park in March, had died of heart failure, while the other one, which was found abandoned by a resident in Taipa before the Chinese New Year in

June 8, 2020 | BY admin

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Snapshots of daily life as city tackles COVID-19

A huge banner with the title “Hong Kong National Security Law” is displayed on the façade of a building in Avenida da Praia Grande yesterday. The banner reads “It’s what the public wants. Protecting One Country, Firm on Two Systems. Support National People’s Congress Approving the Hong Kong National Security Law. Macau Media Culture Association”. On Friday, a local civic group chartered an open-top bus to promote the central authorities’ drafting of a national security law for

June 8, 2020 | BY admin

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HK artist displays images & scenery of daily life

The Ox Warehouse has invited Hong Kong artist, Dennis Wong Chun-keung, to join their Artist-in-Residence Programme entitled “Eerie Scenery”, co-sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) and Macau Foundation (FM), according to an article on the gallery’s Facebook page.Wong was born in Guangzhou and moved to Hong Kong at the age of six. His work has been exhibited and collected in a number of places, including Europe, the US and the mainland such as the 2016 Three Shadows Photography

June 8, 2020 | BY admin

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Galo restaurant owner dies

Jorge Mota, the well-known owner of the local “Galo” (“Rooster”) Portuguese restaurants, died on Saturday at the age of 70, the Portuguese-language radio channel of public broadcaster TDM reported yesterday. According to the unsourced Rádio Macau report, Mota arrived in Macau in the 1970s on secondment from the Portuguese navy to work for the local coastguard and customs police (PMF). He opened his first restaurant, Galo, in Taipa in 1987, which has since been closed. He later

June 8, 2020 | BY admin

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World's COVID-19 cases top 7 million: report

The world's number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases went beyond seven million tonight (Macau time), the real-time statistics reference worldometers.info website reported. At 9:50 p.m. the number of confirmed cases stood at 7,016,024, with 402.787 deaths. Some 28 percent of the worldwide cases were recorded in the United States, at 1.99 million with 112,113 deaths, or 27 percent of the global total of COVID-19 fatalities. Macau has not confirmed a new COVID-19 case in 60 days.

June 7, 2020 | BY admin

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World's COVID-19 death toll tops 400,000 - No new case in Macau for 2 months

The world's novel coronavirus death toll went beyond 400,000 today, according to the worldometers.info website. The toll stood at 402,294 at 3:45 p.m. today, when the world's total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases amounted to 6.98 million, including 3.41 recovered patients. In the US, the world's hardest hit country in the pandemic, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases stood at 1.988 million, with 112,096 deaths. According to official data, Macau has not confirmed a new

June 7, 2020 | BY admin

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Stanley Ho's daughter Deborah files caveat over his estate: report

Deborah Ho Chiu Hung, one of the 16 children of gaming magnate Stanley Ho Hung Sun, who passed away in Hong Kong on May 26 at the age of 98, has filed a caveat to bar dealings in his estate without notifying her lawyers, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported yesterday. The unsourced report said the aim of Deborah Ho's legal action was to register her interest in her late father's estate. According to the report, Deborah Ho, the youngest child of Stanley Ho's wife Clementina

June 6, 2020 | BY admin

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