Macau chips are down for US casino kings

If any worsening of the trade war leads Beijing to call for a boycott of US companies, the United States’ casino kings will be sweating.Three US companies – Las Vegas Sands, founded by Republican Party donor Sheldon Adelson, Wynn Resorts and, to a lesser extent, MGM Resorts International – rely on their positions in the casino hub of Macau to thrive. With their two-decade-old concessions or sub-concessions expiring in the next four years, they need Beijing and Washington to stay on good

December 10, 2018 | BY admin

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3rd Macau int’l film-fest kicks off

The third Macau International Film Festival kicked off Saturday, with over 50 films from around the world to be shown in local cinemas.The seven-day event includes such sections as Competition Section, Gala, Flying Daggers, Best of Fest, New Chinese Cinema, Special Presentation, and Director’s Choice.US actor-cum-director Nicolas Cage, Hong Kong singer-cum-actor Aaron Kwok Fu-shing and South Korean singer-cum-actress Lim Yoon-a were appointed as the festival’s Talent Ambassadors this year.

December 10, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt now offers free flu jabs for all residents

The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement on Friday that it will be providing free flu vaccinations to all local residents from tomorrow.All Macau residents can register online, by phone or in person at all health centres in order to book an appointment to have their flu jab.Appointments can be made at health centres from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. and at the vaccination station of the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre, where the opening

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Illegal inn issue ‘complicated & sensitive’: chief prosecutor

Public Prosecutor-General Ip Son Sang described yesterday the illegal provision of accommodation in the city as a “complicated and sensitive” issue. He said that the possible criminalisation of the operation of illegal inns would need a careful study and thorough discussions in civil society.The chief prosecutor’s remarks came after the strikingly opposing views recently expressed by Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak and Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng on

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Govt to accept applications for 4,000 HOS flats in Zone A next year

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said in the legislature’s hemicycle yesterday that the government will launch a new round of applications for about 4,000 subsidised home-ownership scheme (HOS) flats on the land reclamation area officially known as Zone A next year.Zone A lies off the north-eastern coast of the peninsula.Rosario made the remarks when answering a question from directly-elected lawmaker-cum-unionist Ella Lei Cheng I on the first day of a two-day

December 7, 2018 | BY admin

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Fringe Festival promises ‘Extra. Ordinary’ programme

This year’s Macau City Fringe Festival taking place from January 11 to 27 will bring an “Extra. Ordinary” themed programme that should lead its audience to “break through the restrictions and framework to rediscover the exceptional in everyday life”, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), the event’s organiser, said in statement yesterday.A press conference about the festival was held at the Old Courthouse, where the bureau announced 18 programmes and 10 outreach activities such as

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Woman raped in Cotai hotel room: police

A 30-year-old businesswoman from the mainland has been raped by a male compatriot in a hotel room in Cotai, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said yesterday at a regular press conference.The 25-year-old suspect, surnamed Meng, who claims to be a businessman, first met the woman in Foshan, a city some 100 km north of Macau. On Monday, the woman and three female friends came to Macau for a holiday and to gamble. The woman then contacted Meng and met him in a casino in Cotai. The

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Rosario says won’t apologise over axing of project

Addressing yesterday’s Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle, Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said he will not apologise for an incident in which the court ordered the annulment of the government’s contract with a consortium for the Mong Ha social housing project.Rosario said that he will not make the apology because it was not the fault of the officials under his portfolio, as the incident was different from the incident in which the government

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80,000 hygiene kits to be sent to Philippines

A total of 350 volunteers from Sands China and local community groups worked together yesterday at the Venetian’s convention centre to assemble 35,000 of 80,000 hygiene kits to be shipped to the Philippines.“Las Vegas Sands 2018 Global Hygiene Kit Build with Clean the World” is the title of this year’s annual event.The initiative is in its fifth consecutive year now, according to the event statement.Gyneth Tan-Murphy, managing director of Clean the World Asia, poses during yesterday’s

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Imperial cuisine meets Sichuan flavours, Chinese liquor at Golden Flower

Wynn Macau’s two-Michelin-star Golden Flower restaurant served an exclusive menu, designed by its chef Liu Guozhu, of Tan imperial cuisine and guest chef Lan Minglu from Sichuan, paired with the aromatic Chinese liquor Wuliangye.Lan is from Lanting Thirteen Chefs restaurant that has been one of the 50 most influential restaurants in mainland China for five consecutive years.Earlier this week, Liu partnered with Lan to deliver an eight-course meal that showed off the variations of Sichuan

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MGM Macau gets ready for a sweet Christmas

MGM Macau is going for a sweet Christmas this year, bringing in a sweets-making workshop where you get to design and make your own lollipop, or just get some readymade or personalised sticks of rock that are great for party gifts and stocking fillers.The pop-up sweets shop at MGM Macau’s Grande Praça has crowds of spectators as sugar artisans create Christmas-themed lollipops and sticks of rock with all sorts of patterns, images and words – even in Chinese – from just granulated sugar

December 7, 2018 | BY admin

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Festival lights up city’s past & present

The sky is getting dark earlier as winter arrives, but the city is getting brighter and brighter in the night with all the Christmas lights and lantern decorations, as well as many light installations for the Macau Light Festival that is lighting up the new and old quarters of the city.Organised by Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), the Macau Light Festival, which is in its fourth year, takes the “time travel” theme through a series of projection mapping shows, light installations and

December 7, 2018 | BY admin

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Grand Lapa Macau hosts Boa Vida Weekend Market

Grand Lapa Macau will be hosting the “Boa Vida Weekend Market”, a community market embracing the “Boa Vida” lifestyle. In Portuguese, Boa Vida means “Good life”, which is the motto of the two-day event which starts tomorrow, according to the event statement.The statement said that the weekend market will showcase the elements of good living, from arts and crafts, vintage clothing and accessories, sustainable workshops for kids, books and knick-knacks, environmental protection

December 7, 2018 | BY admin

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Hotel guest busted for drug taking

Hotel housekeeping staff at a hotel in Zape found drug-taking paraphernalia in the guestroom of a male guest from the mainland on Wednesday while cleaning the room and alerted security, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said yesterday at a regular press conference.The suspect, surnamed Fu, a 40-year-old businessman, was staying in the hotel. When the housekeeping staff found the drug-taking paraphernalia while cleaning the room in the afternoon, they reported the matter to the

December 7, 2018 | BY admin

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