Authorities to give more support for businesses hit by COVID-19: Xi

President Xi Jinping(front, left), also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission waves during an inspection visit to Yucun iillage of Tianhuangping township in Anji county, Zhejiang province, yesterday. Xi was briefed on the huge changes brought about by advancing green development. – Xinhua President Xi Jinping (center) talks with villagers and learns about the advantages of green development in Yucun village,

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Snapshots of daily life as city fights COVID-19

A man enters a residential building located next to a shop unit plastered with estate agents’ phone numbers.A traffic warden stops cars at a zebra crossing for people to cross in Avenida de Horta e Costa.A man takes a selfie with a little girl as they share a drink in Praça do Tap Seac.A woman wearing a facemask feeds a baby in Praça do Tap Seac.Photos taken yesterday by Camy Tam and Iong Tat Choi

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Temporary quarantine facility opens at Cotai nursing college building

The government announced yesterday that it has set up a new temporary quarantine facility at the newly completed nursing college building in the Cotai hospital complex – a mega project under construction.According to the announcement, 192 beds have been set up there for three kinds of people: 1) those undergoing 14-days medical observation after having been in close contact with confirmed novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, 2) those who have been classified as having a “high risk” of

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9-year-old girl becomes Macau's 39th COVID-19 patient

A nine-year-old local girl became Macau's 39th confirmed COVID-19 case yesterday. According to a statement by the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre late last night, the girl is the daughter of Macau's 34th novel coronavirus disease case. The statement noted that the girl, her father and brother flew to Manila in November to visit their mother who works in the Philippines. The trio took Cathay Pacific flight CX902 from Manila to Hong Kong on March 18. After arriving in

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Macao Water profit rises nearly 7 pct to 95 million patacas in 2019

The Macao Water Supply Company Limited –branded as Macao Water – has announced a net profit of around 95 million patacas for last year, an increase of nearly seven percent from 2018, when it reported a net profit of 89 million patacas, up 15 percent year-on-year. “Overall, Macau maintained steady economic growth in 2019, driven by new buildings and facilities, as well as a consistent local tourism boost,” the water utility said in a statement late last week. The statement

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Hotel guests fall 85 pct in February

Macau’s 115 hotels and guesthouses welcomed 157,000 guests last month, a year-on-year decline of 85.4 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. The number of guests from the Chinese mainland (106,000) and Hong Kong (21,000) fell 86.3 percent and 81.0 percent respectively. Guests’ average length of stay rose by 0.3 night year-on-year to 1.8 nights. The number of available guestrooms dropped 3.8 percent year-on-year to 37,000. The bureau pointed

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Man sexually assaults 15-year-old drunken girl: police

A 29-year-old man is alleged to have sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl who got drunk in a karaoke bar last week, the Judiciary Police (PJ) has announced.The girl went to the bar in Nape last Monday with the man whom she only met recently.According to a press conference by the Judiciary Police on Friday, the girl got drunk and when she woke up the following day, she found that she was only scantily dressed in the flat of the man who was still sleeping beside her.The victim suspected that she

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Airport operator ‘hit hard’ by COVID-19

Macau’s airport operator CAM said in a statement yesterday that it was “hit hard” by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter of the year, admitting that its profitability prospects for this year are uncertain.  “Aviation industry demand has slumped drastically,” the statement said, pointing out that in the first quarter the airport’s passenger and flight movements dropped 45 percent and 55 percent respectively. The statement said that CAM set up a

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Imports fall 30 pct in February, but facemask imports surge

Macau’s imports fell 30.3 percent year-on-year to 3.87 billion patacas last month, when total exports (domestic exports plus re-exports) dipped 1.4 percent to 911 million patacas, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement yesterday.Last month’s imports fell to the lowest since March 2011, according to the statement. Macau’s economy has been hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis since late January. However, according to the bureau, imports of certain textile products,

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Retirement home caregiver rapes colleague: police

A mainlander who works as a caregiver at a local retirement home allegedly raped his female colleague in the facility’s storeroom while no one was there at night.The victim told a friend about the incident after which both reported it to the Public Security Police (PSP) who arrested the suspect at the retirement home in Ilha Verde district early last week, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said at a regular press conference on Friday.The 23-year-old suspect surnamed Wu is a

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Cooperation vital to contain COVID-19 outbreak

Commentary by Liu Weiping and Yu Zhen/Wang Jingyu*The G20 video conference hosted by Saudi Arabia on Thursday reflected the growing urgency for countries to coordinate their actions and deepen cooperation to contain the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. That the number of diagnosed novel coronavirus pneumonia cases in the rest of the world now far exceeds that in China shows prevention and control measures at the global level need urgent improvement.The novel coronavirus was first

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Macao Water profit rises nearly 7 pct to 95 million patacas in 2019

The Macao Water Supply Company Limited - branded as Macao Water - has announced a net profit of around 95 million patacas (US$11.8 million) for last year, an increase of nearly seven percent from 2018, when it reported a net profit of 89 million patacas, up 15 percent year-on-year. "Overall, Macau maintained steady economic growth in 2019, driven by new buildings and facilities, as well as a consistent local tourism boost," the water utility said in a statement late last

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Macau imports fall 30 pct in February, but facemask imports surge

Macau's imports fell 30.3 percent year-on-year to 3.87 billion patacas last month, when total exports (domestic exports plus re-exports) dipped 1.4 percent to 911 million patacas, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement today.Last month's imports fell to the lowest since March 2011, according to the statement. Macau's economy has been hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis since late January. However, according to the bureau, imports of certain textile products, mostly

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Hotel guests fall 85 pct in February

Macau's 115 hotels and guesthouses welcomed 157,000 guests last month, a year-on-year decline of 85.4 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced today. The number of guests from the Chinese mainland (106,000) and Hong Kong (21,000) fell 86.3 percent and 81.0 percent respectively. Guests' average length of stay rose by 0.3 night year-on-year to 1.8 nights. The number of available guestrooms dropped 3.8 percent year-on-year to 37,000. The bureau pointed out

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