Macau eases entry restrictions for non-resident workers from Zhuhai

The Macau government today eased COVID-19 entry restrictions for non-resident workers living in Zhuhai. The eased entry restrictions will take effect at 6 a.m. on Monday, officials announced at the daily press conference of the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre. Hitherto the non-resident workers needed to undergo 14-day quarantine in Zuhai to be allowed entry into Macau.According to the eased restrictions, non-resident workers holding a Zhuhai ID card or residency permit

May 9, 2020 | BY admin

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38 schoolgirls say man sexually harassed them

A total of 38 schoolgirls have complained about a man who sexually harassed them outside their school, the Judiciary Police (PJ) has announced. According to a PJ statement yesterday, the police were informed about the case by a school in the northern district on Wednesday. The senior secondary school pupils said that they had been sexually harassed by the man outside their school since it restarted its in-class teaching on Monday, after its break since late January over the COVID-19

May 9, 2020 | BY admin

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Volleyball Nations League 2020 axed due to COVID-19

The Macau Sports Bureau (ID) has announced that in response to the latest development of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) has cancelled the Volleyball Nations League (VNL) 2020.According to a statement by the bureau on Friday, the Organising Committee of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League Macau has been notified by the Paris-based federation that, "after thorough consideration", this year's Volleyball Nations League has been

May 9, 2020 | BY admin

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Xi urges global solidarity, cooperation against grave challenges

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping said yesterday that only by standing together and cooperating in the spirit of a shared future can countries around the world tackle all the difficulties and challenges of the century.He made the remarks in a telephone conversation with his Portuguese counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.Xi thanked Rebelo de Sousa for writing a letter to convey his sympathies to the Chinese people after COVID-19 broke out, adding that China and Portugal are working together in

May 8, 2020 | BY admin

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Nucleic acid test extended to locals who need to cross Macau-Zhuhai checkpoints

Addressing yesterday’s daily press conference about Macau’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, Alvis Lo Iek Long, a clinical director of the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre, announced that the Macau Health Bureau’s (SSM) nucleic acid testing for Macau-Zhuhai cross-border commuters, which started yesterday, will be extended from today to other Macau residents who need to cross the Macau-Zhuhai border checkpoints but do not hold a Zhuhai residence permit.However, Lo

May 8, 2020 | BY admin

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295 million patacas spent with consumer cards in first 5 days: govt

Local residents have in the five days, since they were valid, spent 295 million patacas on goods and services with their government-issued consumption subsidy smartcards as part of its effort to stimulate the economy, a statement from the Economic Services Bureau (DSE) said this week.Under the scheme, each permanent or non-permanent resident is eligible for the consumption subsidy smartcard into which the government has injected 3,000 patacas, which residents have to spend from May 1 to July 31

May 8, 2020 | BY admin

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IAM follows up on case of soya milk recalled by HK firm

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) recently noticed a statement from the Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety warning that a soya milk product batch may have quality issues, and its manufacturer in Hong Kong is recalling the particular batch, the bureau said in a statement yesterday.The brand is VITASOY CALCI-PLUS, and the product is named Hi-Calcium Original Soya Milk, the statement noted.The batch with the apparent quality issue is TE 20, 250 ml per pack, with a best before date of February 19

May 8, 2020 | BY admin

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Man nabbed for offering to sell consumption subsidy card

A 36-year-old jobless local man who offered to sell his government-issued consumption subsidy smartcard through a social media chat group, was arrested on Wednesday, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday.The Judiciary Police were tipped off by a resident on Wednesday that a man was offering to sell his consumption subsidy smartcard worth 3,000 patacas for 1,500 patacas on a social media platform. Upon investigation, the police arrested the suspect, surnamed Lou, in the city

May 8, 2020 | BY admin

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Police nab duo for 1st online dating scam gang run by locals

Suspects include member of Public Security ForcesThe Judiciary Police busted the first online dating scam gang run by locals and arrested two local men in the city centre on Wednesday morning, one of them a member of the Macau Public Security Forces (FSM), while the Shanghai Public Security Bureau (PSB) arrested a woman allegedly involved in the case, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.The 25-year-old suspected kingpin of the gang

May 8, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau discards ‘tourist tax’ idea

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement yesterday that it has discarded the idea of introducing a tourist tax. MGTO made the announcement in a statement, saying that it took the decision to jettison the proposition after a “comprehensive assessment” of the findings of a feasibility study on such a tax, as well as in response to the COVID-19 crisis, which has severely affected Macau’s tourism industry since late January.The statement noted that Macau’s visitor

May 8, 2020 | BY admin

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Wynn Macau reports US$154 million net loss in Q1

Wynn Macau reported today a net loss of US$154.1 million (1.23 billion patacas) in the first quarter. The US gaming operator announced the loss in a condensed consolidated income statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In the first quarter of last year, the company, which owns two of Macau's 41 casinos, had reported a net profit of US$190.6 million. The company's asino revenues dropped 62.9 percent year-on-year to US$397.7 million. The two casinos generated 81.3 percent of the

May 8, 2020 | BY admin

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Washington’s Machiavellian maneuvers undermine world’s anti-COVID-19 endeavors

Commentary by Jiang LiBEIJING – Niccolò Machiavelli might have never anticipated that his booklet on politics, The Prince, would become a handbook for politicians who resonate with the doctrine of deception and ruthlessness in political maneuvering over the centuries following his death in Florence 1527.Today, Machiavellianism has some new loyal inheritors in Washington who have been practicing the political theory to the extremes in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic.One of

May 8, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau discards 'tourist tax' idea

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement today that it has discarded the idea of introducing a tourist tax. MGTO made the announcement in a statement, saying that it took the decision to jettison the proposition after a "comprehensive assessment" of the findings of a feasibility study on such a tax, as well as in response to the COVID-19 crisis, which has severely affected Macau's tourism industry since late January.The statement noted that Macau's visitor

May 7, 2020 | BY admin

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Govt aims for LRT Hengqin section project to start this year: Rosário

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário said yesterday that the local government aims for a Light Rail Transit (LRT) section connecting Macau’s Cotai and Zhuhai’s Hengqin Island to get off the ground this year.The policy secretary also said that as the LRT Cotai-Hengqin section is a cross-border project, it will be constructed by a mainland construction company.Rosário also pledged that the government will invite bids this year for the construction of the LRT Seac Pai

May 7, 2020 | BY admin

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