Wynn hosts sharing session on ‘two sessions’

US gaming operator Wynn hosted yesterday a sharing session for some of its staff members about last month’s “two sessions” – the annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).According to a Wynn statement, the sharing session was held at Wynn Palace in Nape. Macau NPC deputy Ho Sut Heng, president of the Macau Federation of Trade Unions (Gung Luen), and Tina Ho Teng Iat, a

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More Macau people can apply for Zhuhai quarantine exemption

Macau to set up special ferry link with HK airportAddressing yesterday’s press conference about Macau’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao Ieong U announced that Macau residents who need to cross the Macau-Zhuhai border for official purposes, business activities or other urgent or special reasons can now apply to the Macau government for exemption from the Guangdong’s current 14-day quarantine requirement.She also said that the

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Combating the Common Enemy of Mankind Through Solidarity and Cooperation

Shen Beili   Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China in the Macao SAR   On June 7, China’s State Council Information Office issued a white paper titled “Fighting COVID-19: China in Action”. Consisting of four parts, namely, “China’s fight against the epidemic: a test of fire”, “well-coordinated prevention, control and treatment”, “assembling a powerful force to beat the virus” and “building a global community of health for all”, the

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IAM to hold 20th Lotus Flower Festival & 39th Green Week from tomorrow

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) announced in a statement yesterday that it will organise the 20th Lotus Flower Festival concurrently with the “39th Green Week” from tomorrow to June 21.Considering the novel coronavirus epidemic situation, this year both events will be “simplified”, and no opening or closing ceremonies will take place, the statement noted.Both events will take place in Avenida da Praia in Taipa.According to the statement, the bureau reminds citizens who attend the

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Man awaiting COVID-19 test wreaks havoc at hospital: police

A man was arrested for damaging property and attacking a policeman while waiting for his COVID-19 test at the public Conde de S. Januário Hospital Centre on Monday, Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Lai In Hong said during yesterday’s regular press conference.The jobless 30-year-old non-permanent resident surnamed Wang told the police that he has no fixed address in Macau.Lai said that Wang entered Macau via the Barrier Gate checkpoint on Monday afternoon, after which he was taken to

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2 pupils arrested for stealing scooter twice, driving without licence

Two 17-year-old pupils were arrested on Sunday for twice stealing and riding a scooter without a licence which was parked in Man On housing estate in Rua da Tribuna near Iao Hon Municipal Market, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a regular press conference yesterday.The two local teens surnamed Lao and U are enrolled in the same secondary school in the northern district.Ho said the victim reported to the police in late May that his scooter had vanished but later that day

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New gaming inspection chief sworn in

Adriano Marques Ho was sworn in yesterday as the new director of the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ). According to a statement by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS), Secretary for Economy and Finance Lei Wai Nong presided over the ceremony, which took place at the latter’s office. Ho, who holds a bachelor’s degree in Law from the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), worked for the Judiciary Police (PJ) as a criminal investigator between

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Coordinated disinformation efforts should be stopped, researcher says

InterviewCANBERRA – Coordinated efforts to spread disinformation and conspiracy theories about the novel coronavirus should be stopped, an Australian researcher told Xinhua yesterday.A report entitled Like a Virus: The Coordinated Spread of Coronavirus Disinformation, completed by the Center for Responsible Technology of the Australia Institute and the Digital Media Research Center of the Queensland University of Technology, revealed that there are accounts on social media spreading rumors

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Macau to set up special HK airport ferry link during COVID-19 travel curbs

The Macau government announced today a month-long special ferry link between Macau's Pac On Ferry Terminal and the Hong Kong International Airport's SkyPier. The link, which will run between next Wednesday and July 16, was announced by Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao Ieong U at the daily conference of the government's Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre. According to the announcement, the link will enable Macau residents to return home via the

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Beijing removes pangolin parts from medicine register

BEIJNG – The central government has removed pangolin parts from its official list of traditional Chinese medicines, state media reported yesterday, days after increasing legal protections on the endangered animal.Pangolins were left out of the official Chinese Pharmacopoeia this year, along with substances including a pill formulated with bat faeces, the state-owned Health Times reported.The pangolin, the world's most heavily trafficked mammal, is thought by some scientists to be the possible

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Bacteria from Sichuan pickles can prevent teeth cavities: Chinese-Israeli research

   JERUSALEM – Chinese and Israeli researchers have found that probiotics made from a strain of bacteria found in traditional Chinese pickles can prevent teeth cavities, Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in southern Israel said yesterday.    Ina study published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology, researchers from Sichuan University in Chengdu and BGU discovered that extracting strains of Lactobacilli bacteria from Sichuan pickles reduced Streptococcus mutans bacteria,

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Pac On to become ‘large transport hub’: Rosário

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário said yesterday that Pac On in Taipa will become “a large transport hub” where part of the Taipa Ferry Terminal will be converted into the future Terminal 2 of the adjacent Macau International Airport.Speaking to reporters after briefing lawmakers about the government’s planned airport expansion project, the policy secretary pointed out that the future fourth Macau-Taipa bridge will connect Pac On and the Zone A land reclamation

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Gaming tax receipts fall 56 pct in Jan-May

The government’s income from gross gaming revenue taxes fell 56.5 percent year-on-year to 21.0 billion patacas (US$2.6 billion), the Macau Financial Services Bureau (DSF) announced this week.  Gross gaming revenue (GGR) is defined as the difference between the amount of money gamblers wager minus the amount that they win. Macau’s six rival gaming operators pay 35 percent of their GGR as direct tax to the government. GGR taxes generated 83.4 percent of the government’s total

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Louis Ng ends role as COO of SJM: statement

Louis Ng Chi Sing is no longer the chief operating officer (COO) of gaming operator SJM S.A., Hong Kong-listed SJM Holdings Limited (the “Company”) announced in a statement yesterday. SJM S.A. is a subsidiary of SJM Holdings. SJM Holdings made the announcement in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The statement said that Ng has been “re-designated” from executive director to non-executive director of the Company and ceased to be a member of the Company’s Executive

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