SJM, Wynn donate to community again

Gaming operators Wynn and SJM have again made donations to the local community to help families and businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.Wynn said in a statement yesterday that it is donating two million patacas to purchase anti-epidemic supplies so that SMEs, teaming up with the Macau Chamber of Commerce (ACM) can distribute them to local enterprises in need, in the hope of combating the epidemic in conjunction with the local community.According to Wynn’s statement, the two

March 24, 2020 | BY admin

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Facemasks for the East and West – Part 2

Commentary by Swallow Xu Every time on my terrace in the city centre hearing a woman’s voice from the loud speaker resounding in the air imploring people to wear a facemask besides other precautions, I felt as if being transported back in time to my childhood village in Guangdong with a loudspeaker announcing commune events, and I felt as if I was part of a movie every time I raised my eyes from my hurried walking only to see many “facemaskers” around me on the street. 

March 24, 2020 | BY admin

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Peak of local students returning to Macau is over: health chief

Addressing yesterday evening’s daily press conference about Macau’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, Health Bureau (SSM) Director Lei Chin Ion said he believed that the peak of local students enrolled overseas returning to Macau is over, adding that, on average, fewer COVID-19 cases per day could be confirmed in the future than in the past few days, as increasingly fewer locals studying overseas would return to Macau.Since last week, more and more local students enrolled overseas

March 24, 2020 | BY admin

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Stigmatizing of China is just same old vinegar being sold as wine

China Daily Editorial The novel coronavirus pandemic has become a sort of reagent test kit showing whether a government has been infected by stigmatism that makes them put their own political interests above the well-being of their countries and peoples.That’s why we have seen two distinctively different approaches to address the global public health challenge, with some calling for international solidarity and focusing on offering what help they can to affected countries, while others,

March 24, 2020 | BY admin

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A call for global action for common health of mankind

BEIJING – From the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 to the 2008 global financial meltdown, humanity has been no stranger to daunting challenges so far this century.Coincidentally, those challenges often pop up around the turn of a decade.This time around, a previously unknown coronavirus has caught the world off guard. As the infectious disease it causes, COVID-19 has spread to over 190 countries and regions, posing an unprecedented risk to global health security.While nations around

March 24, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau confirms 25th COVID-19 case, opens 8th 'quarantine hotel'

The Macau government announced today the city's 25th COVID-19 case, a 41-year-old non-resident worker from Indonesia who is the husband of the 14th case and father of the 17th case, an 11-year-old boy. According to a statement by the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre, the man took Cathay Pacific flight CX718 (seat 47D) with his wife and son from Jakarta to Hong Kong on March 17. The family arrived in Macau by bus via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. While he tested

March 23, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau COVID-19 cases rise to 24

Macau's Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced this morning two more novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, bringing the total to 24. According to two statements by the centre, the city's 23rd case is a 12-year-old local boy studying in the UK. The boy took Cathay Pacific flight CX254 on March 19 from London to Hong Kong where he arrived on the following day. He continued his trip to Macau by bus arranged by Macau's Tourism Crisis Management Office and upon arrival here was

March 23, 2020 | BY admin

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Snapshots of daily life as city fights COVID-19

A police vehicle is parked outside Hotel Metropole in the city centre as it has become one of the now seven “quarantine hotels”. Several men, some not wearing a facemask, gather around a table in a sitting out area near the Three Lamps district to play Chinese chess.Chairs are put on tables in a sealed-off food court in Galaxy Macau.Photos taken over the weekend by Camy Tam, Harald Brüning and Iong Tat Choi

March 23, 2020 | BY admin

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Govt urges students not to breach rules during hotel quarantine

4 more imported cases yesterday raise COVID-19 total to 22Addressing yesterday evening’s daily press conference about Macau’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, Inês Chan Lou, who heads the Licensing and Inspection Department of the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), urged local students who have returned to Macau from overseas and are undergoing quarantine at government-designated hotels not to leave their guestrooms during the 14-day quarantine period, adding that they will be

March 23, 2020 | BY admin

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Lexx Moda goes on display at Macau Fashion Gallery

Designs by local fashion brands are on display at the Macau Fashion Gallery as part of the “2020 Brand Story – Macau Original Fashion Exhibition I” co-organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) and Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Centre (CPTTM).According to a CPTTM statement, the exhibition provides participants the opportunity to demonstrate their brands in their own creative styles and showcase their brands’ concepts as well as “spread the charm of the very original

March 23, 2020 | BY admin

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Message claiming COVID-19 prevention staff help residents disinfect their flats is fake: police

An audio message that has been circulating online claiming that staff from the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre wearing white protective clothing would ring the doorbell and offer residents to help disinfect their flats is fake, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement on Friday.According to the PJ statement, the police suspect the message is being sent by criminals planning to impersonate the centre’s disinfection staff so that they can enter residents’ flats to

March 23, 2020 | BY admin

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Filipino denies flashing, says he was in rush to get dressed

A 28-year-old Filipino non-resident worker who allegedly “exposed the lower part of his body” to a woman in the Montanha Russa Garden area several times told police that it wasn’t intentional, insisting that he didn’t put his trousers on properly because he was in a rush to get ready for work, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Ho Ka Kit announced in the regular press conference on Friday.According to the spokesman, the suspected exhibitionist surnamed Vital works as a machine

March 23, 2020 | BY admin

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COVID-19 – a matter of ‘existential inconvenience’ – Editorial

I read over the weekend an inspiring article by English writer Geoff Dyer in the prestigious The New Yorker magazine, dated March 16, with the thought-provoking title “The Existential Inconvenience of Coronavirus”. I recommend it to everyone interested in understanding the multifarious – and nefarious – implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.Of course, the novel coronavirus is an existential inconvenience or, to put it blandly, a pain in the backside. And, most importantly, it’s also a

March 23, 2020 | BY admin

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Sharing science, not political bashing, needed to fight COVID-19

Commentary by Laurence Brahm*The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis is a worldwide pandemic requiring collaboration across nations regardless of ideology, political system or religiosity. This is the time for global unity against a pandemic attack, no different than if all the nations of the world had to unite to fight an attack from outer space aliens. As science fiction as it sounds, the novel coronavirus global pandemic is something right out of science fiction and needs to be met head on

March 23, 2020 | BY admin

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