Casino stocks drop as typhoon shutdown tipped to cost up to 1.5 billion patacas

Local casino stocks retreated yesterday after Typhoon Mangkhut forced a 33-hour shutdown of the world’s biggest gambling hub, a halt that’s estimated to cost the city’s six gaming operators as much as 1.5 billion patacas in revenue.Nearly all local casinos reopened at 8 a.m. yesterday, after an informal agreement between the government and the six operators shuttered their doors at 11 p.m. on Saturday as the typhoon was approaching. According to the website of the Gaming Inspection and

September 18, 2018 | BY admin

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Super Typhoon hits Macau with maximum force

Macau authorities will hoist at 11 AM on Sunday typhoon signal 10 – the highest category in the city’s six-level typhoon warning system.Satellite images show that typhoon Mangkhut is currently located 180 km southeast of Macau and will continue to affect the territory during Sunday with heavy rain.The typhoon with winds of more than 100 km/h is moving to the western coast of Guangdong province.Gaming operations in the six concessionaires and sub-concessionaries in Macao casinos have been

September 16, 2018 | BY admin

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Elderly home wants CE’s intervention on greyhound issue

Asilo Vila Madalena retirement home director Sister Ip Pui King said yesterday that she was ready, if necessary, to take the elderly residents with her to go and ask Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On for help to stop Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome from putting about 530 greyhounds on a plot of land just metres away from the old people’s dormitories.Ip made the comments during a press conference at the retirement home in Coloane, when asked if she wanted the Chief Executive to intervene since

September 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Local man has Legionnaires’ disease: SSM

A 76-year-old local man who sought treatment at the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre on Tuesday has been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease, the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, the patient was originally diagnosed with pneumonia and then his urine antigen test came back positive for Legionella pneumophila.According to the statement, the patient was hospitalised, adding that the patient is semi-unconscious and in a critical

September 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Activist is disappointed with govt’s response to anti-plastic campaign

Annie Lao Ka Wing, one of the five activists who organised the “Macau Plastic Waste and Pollution” petition, said yesterday that she was “extremely disappointed” with how the government had responded to her anti-disposable plastic campaign which had collected more than 4,700 signatures from the public last month.Lao made the remarks in an interview with The Macau Post Daily last night.In mid-August, Lao – a 28-year-old writer – and four of her friends formed an ad-hoc

September 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Mansour Memarian’s Persian cuisine: Expect traditional, get unexpected experience

Iranian chef with German origins Mansour Memarian will be presenting a culinary experience with his take on Persian food when he comes to Macau for a four-day stint at Mandarin Oriental.Memarian is currently Executive Chef at Palazzo Versace Dubai, where he serves Iranian culinary traditions with the subtle use of innovative techniques at the luxury hotel’s Enigma restaurant to deliver a creative gastronomic experience with authentic Persian flavours.In a recent e-mail interview with MPD

September 14, 2018 | BY admin

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‘Kaleidoscope’ shows fragments of moments in life

Just as one creates images in a kaleidoscope through twisting and turning the tube, the audience in “Kaleidoscope” will be making sense of the performance with their own lives’ twists and turns, as fragments of moments in life are presented before them.“Kaleidoscope” is a theatre production by director Shaghayegh Beheshti, known to her peers as Shasha, who is a core member of Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble Théâtre du Soleil founded in 1964.The troupe was set up as a reaction

September 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Overall LRT could cost at least 50 billion patacas: auditor

In a hard-hitting report published yesterday, the Commission of Audit (CA) says that the estimated construction cost for the eight sections of Macau’s Light Rail Transit (LRT) system that the government has planned for the short, medium and long terms amounts to at least 50 billion patacas.The report also says that the Transport Infrastructure Office (GIT), which oversees the city’s LRT project, is to blame for the long delays in the construction of the LRT Taipa section. The office was set

September 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Swimming pool closures may remain in effect

According to a meeting with the Sports Bureau (ID) yesterday, the five public swimming pools with shortened open hours or completely closed are likely to remain affected for the remainder of the year even though the 24 lifeguards who were earlier on strike have already returned to work, lawmaker Sulu Sou Ka Hou said yesterday.Sou made the comments in a media briefing after attending yesterday’s meeting – which was attended by the bureau’s president Pun Weng Kun, outside the

September 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Chui vows to put residents’ safety 1st as Mangkhut approaches

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On pledged yesterday that the government will put residents’ safety first in its ongoing disaster prevention and possible disaster relief tasks for Super Typhoon Mangkhut.Chui made the remarks during a specially-convened meeting yesterday in preparation for Mangkhut which is forecast to be close to Macau on Sunday.Following a civil protection meeting convened by Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak on Wednesday for Mangkhut, Chui convened another meeting

September 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt warns Mangkhut as serious as Hato

The government said yesterday that it did not rule out the possibility that Super Typhoon Mangkhut that is making its way to the city would have an impact on Macau as large as last year’s deadly Super Typhoon Hato.Tang Iu Man, acting vice-director of the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG), gave the warning during a specially-convened meeting yesterday, attended by officials from various government entities, in preparation for Tropical Storm Barijat and Super Typhoon Mangkhut.In

September 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Police record 355 offences by cabbies in August

A total of 355 offences by taxi drivers were recorded last month, with overcharging continuing to top the list, the Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement yesterday.According to the statement, 62 percent (220 cases) of the 355 cases concerned overcharging, while 19 percent (68 cases) were about cabbies refusing to pick up passengers.The statement said that the remaining 67 cases concerned other violations. It did not elaborate.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

September 13, 2018 | BY admin

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HK woman busted for drug trafficking: police

The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a 41 year old woman from Hong Kong for selling drugs in Macau, a PJ spokesperson said during a special press conference in Zape yesterday.The police received a tip off that the suspect was selling drugs in night entertainment venues in Nape and Zape.According to the spokesperson, the suspect was put under surveillance and arrested in Areia Preta on Tuesday evening.Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the suspect to a police vehicle outside the PJ headquarters

September 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt records 2nd imported case of malaria this year

The Health Bureau (SSM) announced last night that it had recorded the second imported case of malaria of the year, after logging the first one last Friday.According to the statement, the two patients are husband and wife, aged 56 and 35, who live in Areia Preta. The couple travelled to Mozambique together on August 16.The wife returned to Macau on September 2 and became ill on September 4 before being diagnosed with malaria last Friday, the statement said. Meanwhile, her husband had various

September 13, 2018 | BY admin

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