MGM announces exclusive events partnership with Robb Report HK

MGM announced its exclusive long-term partnership with international luxury media brand Robb Report, the gaming resort operator said in a statement yesterday.The statement noted that through the partnership, the brand’s latest addition to its international network, Robb Report Hong Kong, will work exclusively with MGM MACAU & MGM COTAI to conduct local renditions of signature events for RR1 members, which the statement said is a private and exclusive club for “high-net-worth

February 24, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Wynn participates in ‘Experience Macao, Unlimited’ roadshow in Guangzhou

Wynn Resorts participated in the “Experience Macao, Unlimited” Caravan Roadshow’s first post-pandemic stop in Guangzhou last weekend, promoting Macau’s “charm of hospitality” through multiple online and offline promotional channels, while showcasing the city’s “rich and diverse” tourism attractions, according to a statement by the US gaming resort operator earlier this week.The ongoing roadshow, organised by the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) covering nine mainland

February 24, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Sands Resorts Macao participates in caravan roadshow

Sands Resorts Macao is participating and highlighting its offerings at the “Experience Macao, Unlimited” Caravan Roadshow across the Greater Bay Area (GBA), which was unveiled on Saturday and Sunday in the Beijing Road Pedestrian Street in Guangzhou, the gaming resort operator said in a statement earlier this week.The statement noted that the company is highlighting its dining, accommodation, shopping and entertainment options, which includes The Parisian Macao’s upcoming art installation

February 24, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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US even doing smash and grab of its friends

China Daily Editorial        Since the United Kingdom’s acrimonious divorce from the European Union, relations between the two sides have been quarrelsome at best. It can be readily appreciated therefore how grave the situation must be for them to find common cause.What has brought the otherwise estranged and bickering divorcees together is their opposition to the United States’ Inflation Reduction Act.“The EU is very worried [about the Act] and we’re working jointly

February 24, 2023 | BY admin

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JLL predicts high-end housing prices to ‘remain stable’ this year

JLL Macau and Zhuhai General Manager Oliver Tong Wai Lok said yesterday that with the gradual recovery of Macau’s economy, his forecast for this year’s housing prices was “relatively conservative”, with a maximum increase of about five percent for mass-to-medium residential properties, while the prices for high-end residential properties would remain stable, adding he believed that the city’s housing prices will only regain growth momentum from next year.JLL, formerly known Jones Lang

February 23, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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2 mainlanders busted for selling cocaine: police

Two mainlanders were arrested on Monday for selling cocaine, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said at a special press conference yesterday.The two suspects are surnamed Wu but with no family connections. The 22-year-old Wu is a labourer while the 27-year-old Wu is a businessman.According to Ho, the Judiciary Police had recently received a tip-off that two men were selling drugs in the San Ma Lou area to people visiting night entertainment venues. PJ officers identified the Wus as the

February 23, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Local woman scams blue-card seeker: police

A local woman has been arrested for defrauding a mainlander by claiming that she could help a woman from the mainland get a local work permit (colloquially known as “blue card”), Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said during a regular press conference yesterday.Wong said that the 40-year-old suspect surnamed Wong told the police that she’s jobless. According to the spokesman, the victim was introduced to the suspect, Wong, by a friend of hers last August, who

February 23, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Cabbie charges HK$1,010 for 109-pataca ride: police

A taxi driver cheated two passengers out of HK$900 on February 14 after giving them change of just one pataca when one of the passengers gave the cabbie HK$1,010 for a 109-pataca ride, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said during a regular press conference yesterday.Wong identified the suspect as a 32-year-old local man surnamed Kam. The victims, a man and a woman from the mainland, were visiting Macau as tourists.According to Wong, when arriving at the Barrier Gate

February 23, 2023 | BY William Chan

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2 mainlanders enter Macau illegally on local duo’s yacht: Macau customs 

Macau Customs Service (SA) officers arrested two local men on Sunday at the Macau Yacht Club on Avenida Marginal do Lam Mau for people smuggling using a yacht to bring two mainlanders illegally from Zhuhai to Macau, according to an SA statement on Tuesday.The statement said that the two mainlanders – a male and a female – caught at the yacht club at the same time were illegal immigrants who had paid “a lot of money” to the two local suspects for helping them enter Macau

February 23, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Police nab 2 high-school students involved in blackmail

Two high-school students were arrested on Tuesday for their involvement in a blackmail case, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said at a special press conference yesterday.Ho said the 16-year-old suspect surnamed Liu studies in a school in Zape, while the 18-year-old suspect surnamed Cai studies in the mainland.According to Ho, a local man in his thirties reported to the police that his 90-year-old grandfather had been blackmailed in a phone call on Monday. During the call, a man told

February 23, 2023 | BY William Chan

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Local travel trade groups host their Taiwan counterparts: MGTO

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement yesterday that local travel trade organisations have invited over 60 delegates of Taiwan’s travel industry for a five-day familiarisation trip, which started on Tuesday, and a networking seminar.According to the statement, the fact-finding trip and seminar have been arranged by the Travel Industry Council of Macau, Macau Travel Agency Association and Association of Macao Tourist Agents.The delegation visited tourist attractions

February 23, 2023 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Union says over 1,400 casino staff seek counselling

Four representatives of the Macao Gaming Industry Employees Home union said yesterday that it provided last year counselling services to 1,490 casino employees, of whom 192 required a follow-up, adding that the reasons for seeking help were mostly assistance in finding a job, help in applying for social welfare assistance, family and emotional problems, and gambling issues.The representatives made the remarks during a press conference about its 2022 annual services report on the labour

February 23, 2023 | BY Yuki Lei

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Local artists hope viewers ‘fall in love with’ the art of theatre

A local play, Zheng Family, will be staged from tomorrow to Sunday this week, and members of the cast said in an interview with The Macau Post Daily in their studio on Avenida Almirante Lacerda last week that they hope the public will appreciate the art of theatre through their performances.The play’s writer, Mok Keng Fong, said he wrote the play to portray a family of YouTubers to reflect the current phenomenon of people being deeply affected by the social media and mobile phones.Mok said

February 23, 2023 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Govt launches tender for new 3-year term to run Cinematheque•Passion: gazette

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) has launched a public tender for the three-year operation of its Cinematheque•Passion, according to an announcement published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.Cinematheque•Passion is located on Travessa da Paixão (Passion Alley), a pebbled alley just a stone’s throw from the UNESCO World Heritage-protected Ruins of St Paul’s.The new three-year term of operation, according to yesterday’s announcement, will start on August 1 this year and end on

February 23, 2023 | BY Tony Wong

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