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Commentary by José Álvares*Unfortunately, this columnist never had the chance of meeting Dr. Stanley Ho in person as by the time I set foot in this place, he had long shied away from public life. Yet, be it in my professional or personal life, I can’t avoid running into him on a daily basis. Many think his activities were limited to operating casinos, but scratch beneath the surface and you realise he had a hand in every major project of the past decades that made Macau what it is

May 28, 2020 | BY admin

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Jobless Filipina cheats 5 Nepalis looking for jobs: police

An unemployed Filipina was arrested on Tuesday for cheating five Nepali men out of 110,000 patacas as purported fees for allegedly helping them to find jobs in Macau, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lai Man Vai said during a special press conference yesterday.The 28-year-old suspect surnamed Bayucan told the police that she is unemployed. She had worked as a domestic helper but recently resigned and was staying legally in Macau. According to Lai, the five Nepalis, aged between 25 and 35,

May 28, 2020 | BY admin

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Health Bureau reduces COVID-19 testing hours in Pac On

Addressing yesterday’s press conference about Macau’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, Alvis Lo Iek Long, a clinical director of the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre, announced that the opening hours of the Taipa Ferry Terminal nucleic acid testing (NAT) station in Pac On will be reduced to between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. daily from today, from the previous opening hours of 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.Lo said that the government had decided to reduce the opening hours of the Pac On

May 28, 2020 | BY admin

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Binshu & 37°C display Macau Specialty New Gadget Concept

An event entitled “Macau Specialty New Gadget Concept Exhibition”, co-organised by Macau Binshu Culture and Art Co. Ltd and local brand Thirty-seven Degrees, is on display at the 10 Fantasia gallery.The exhibition is being co-hosted by 10 Fantasia – A Creative Industries Incubator and the St. Lazarus Church District Creative Industries Promotion Association, and sponsored by Macau Foundation. It aims to combine Macau’s local food sector with the cultural and creative industries to

May 28, 2020 | BY admin

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IFTM hosts Virtual Tourism Education Student Summit

The Macau Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM) hosted this year’s 5th annual Tourism Education Student Summit event (TEd Summit-2020) virtually yesterday. According to an IFTM statement, the full-day event was an opportunity for IFTM’s top 44 graduating BSc students to share their research findings with industry leaders and the community at large.“This unique event was an opportunity for some of the institute’s brightest stars to engage with industry in a discussion about the

May 28, 2020 | BY admin

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NPC deputies deliberate draft decision on HK national security legislation

BEIJING – National People’s Congress (NPC) deputies deliberating a draft decision on national security legislation for Hong Kong have agreed that it is a major move that will help safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests, as well as Hong Kong’s long-term prosperity and stability.The draft decision of the National People’s Congress (NPC) on establishing and improving the legal system and enforcement mechanisms for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

May 28, 2020 | BY admin

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Police suspect Indonesian maid of abusing 5-year-old girl

An Indonesian domestic helper allegedly abused a five-year-old girl by inserting her finger into the child’s vagina when she was giving the girl a shower, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a regular press conference yesterday.The suspect surnamed Dewi is in her thirties and had worked for the victim’s family since February.Leng said that a local woman, accompanied by her daughter, reported the case to the police on Sunday night. She told the police that she noticed

May 28, 2020 | BY admin

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The eventful life of Macau’s family and gaming industry patriarch Stanley Ho Hung Sun

Photos taken by our photographers over the past few decades 

May 27, 2020 | BY admin

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Fond memories of an easily approachable patriarch – Obituary

Obituary I was deeply saddened by yesterday’s news of Stanley Ho Hung Sun’s passing but the media coverage of his departure also triggered fond memories of one of the most likeable personages I was fortunate to meet during nearly four decades of reporting. Apart from his sheer likeability, the other characteristic that struck me most was his extraordinary approachability. I have met very few other big names in my professional life as a journalist who were as easily approachable as

May 27, 2020 | BY admin

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Patriarch Stanley Ho dies at 98 in HK hospital

Macau gaming magnate Stanley Ho Hung Sun passed away in Hong Kong at the age of 98 yesterday, his family announced outside the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital. His daughter Angela Ho Chiu Yin told reporters that her father died at the hospital at 1 p.m. “Although we knew the day will come, it does not ease our sorrow,” said Angela Ho who was surrounded by members of the large family. Stanley Ho, born into a Eurasian family in Hong Kong on November 25, 1921, is survived by

May 27, 2020 | BY Harald Brüning

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Vietnamese woman busted collecting drug parcel: police

A Vietnamese woman and a Hong Kong man were arrested on Monday, after she was caught collecting a parcel sent by mail that contained methamphetamine and ketamine worth 760,000 patacas, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lai Man Vai announced in a special press conference yesterday.According to Lai, the woman in her thirties surnamed Pham is a non-resident worker employed as a masseuse, while the 46-year-old man surnamed Lee told the police that he works for a junket operator.Lai pointed out that

May 27, 2020 | BY admin

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Local, mainland police bust drug-smuggling gang led by HK man

The Judiciary Police (PJ), in collaboration with the Macau Customs Service and the mainland police, have busted a gang which smuggled drugs from the mainland to Macau, the two local law enforcement agencies jointly announced in a special press conference yesterday evening.Members of the gang, which was based in the mainland and led by a Hong Kong man, smuggled drugs from the mainland to Macau on speedboats and through various Macau-Zhuhai land border checkpoints for almost two months, according

May 27, 2020 | BY admin

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Nation shows the road back from COVID-19 outbreak

Commentary by Robin Xing* The novel coronavirus outbreak was first reported in China. And although Premier Li Keqiang has not set any economic growth target for this year in the Government Work Report he presented on Friday, the first country where we can really observe economic recovery is also China. So, how is the recovery going?China adopted a three-stage approach to contain the virus and reopen the economy. The first stage was hard lockdown, which lasted about a month from late

May 27, 2020 | BY admin

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Filipino faces ‘drunk cycling’ charge: PSP

A Filipino was caught “drunk cycling” on a bicycle as he zigzagged along the narrow streets of the city centre’s old quarters in the early hours of Saturday, the Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement on its social media page yesterday.According to the statement, PSP officers were on patrol around the Rua dos Mercadores and Rua de Nossa Sra. do Amparo when they saw a man wobbling left and right on his bicycle.The statement said that when police officers stopped the man, he

May 27, 2020 | BY admin

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