Macau announces 34th COVID-19 case

The Macau government announced tonight the city's 34th novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case, a local resident who returned with his two children from visiting his wife in the Philippines on March 18. According to a statement by the Novel Coronavirus Response and Prevention Centre, the 43-year-old man travelled to the Philippines with his son and daughter in November to visit his wife in Manila. On March 18, he and his two children took Cathay Pacific Airways flight CX902 (business

March 27, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau announces exemptions from Guangdong quarantine

Macau's public security chief announced today a raft of exemptions from Guangdong's 14-day mandatory quarantine for arrivals from Macau. Secretary for Security Wong Sio Check announced the exemptions during the daily press conference of Macau's Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre. The mandatory quarantine requirement for border crossers from Macau was announced by the Guangdong provincial government last night. Wong said that the Zhuhai-Macau Novel Coronavirus

March 27, 2020 | BY admin

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Liaison Office in Macau gets new vice-director

The Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) announced today the appointment of Yan Zhichan as one of its four vice-directors. According to a statement by the office, Yan was born in the city of Yangchun, Guangdong province, in May 1964. A graduate of Sun Yat-sen University's School of Government, she holds a master's degree in Management. She began her career as a public servant in July 1985. Yan held a raft of senior

March 27, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau opens 11th 'quarantine hotel'

The Macau government opened today the city's 11th "quarantine hotel", the 132-room Jai Alai in the Outer Harbour area.According to a statement by the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), the hotel has temporarily been designated for medical observation purposes in response to the COVID-19 epidemic. The statement pointed out that the designated hotels - informally known as "quarantine hotels" - facilitate close monitoring of people's health conditions, allowing

March 27, 2020 | BY admin

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14 day-quarantine in Guangdong for arrivals from Macau

GUANGZHOU – Guangdong province said in a statement last night that it requires all arrivals from overseas to undergo concentrated quarantine and nucleic acid testing (NAT) starting from 6 a.m. today in a bid to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).Travellers from overseas as well as Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan will be quarantined in designated places for 14 days. The quarantine expenses shall be paid by the travellers, according to Guangdong’s office of the provincial

March 27, 2020 | BY admin

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Govt provides career matching for 2,600 jobs in leisure industry: DSAL

The Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) said in a statement yesterday that it has been  providing career matching activities for jobseekers, based on 2,600 jobs offered by the city’s large-scale leisure enterprises.The statement pointed out that due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the local employment and labour markets, the bureau has further “optimised its employment matching process”, in order to help job seekers get back into employment as soon as possible.The statement

March 27, 2020 | BY admin

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Farmer nabbed for at least 9 cases of bus stop pickpocketing

A 54-year-old mainland man was arrested on Wednesday when he was about to leave the city after committing another round of pickpocketing at bus stops, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a special press conference yesterday.The suspect is a farmer surnamed Mai from Guangxi.According to Leng, the police received multiple reports of thefts at bus stops in January and March. The police found CCTV footage showing Mai using his tote bag as cover, and taking advantage of the

March 27, 2020 | BY admin

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HK man smuggles lots of drugs into Macau before stricter entry rules, puts price up 20 pct

A Hong Kong man smuggled a large amount of cocaine into the city before the local government implemented 14-day quarantine measures between Hong Kong and Macau at midnight on Wednesday, planning to increase the price of the drug by 20 percent, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a special press conference on Wednesday.Leng said that following a tip-off a Hong Kong resident and local man suspected of trafficking and taking drugs were arrested in Rua da Praia do Manduco on Tuesday evening and

March 27, 2020 | BY admin

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DSAJ to halt its online services over weekend for maintenance: govt

The Legal Affairs Bureau (DSAJ) said in a statement yesterday that from Saturday 1 p.m. until Sunday 7 a.m., the bureau will suspend its online services due to information system maintenance.During the maintenance period, all online notary services, applications for judiciary assistance services and consultations on the progress of proceedings will be temporarily suspended, the statement said.Online services will resume once the information system maintenance work is complete, the statement

March 27, 2020 | BY admin

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Hotels in resorts could be used as quarantine facilities: MGTO

Addressing yesterday evening’s daily press conference about Macau’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, Inês Chan Lou, who heads the Licensing and Inspection Department of the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), said that the government was studying the possibility of hotels in integrated resort complexes being converted into quarantine facilities while maintaining the operations of the resort’s other facilities such as malls. ‘Stand-alone’ hotels preferable for

March 27, 2020 | BY admin

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Full text of Xi’s remarks at Extraordinary G20 Leaders’ Summit

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping yesterday delivered a speech titled “Working Together to Defeat the COVID-19 Outbreak” at the Extraordinary G20 Leaders’ Summit via video link in Beijing.The following is an English translation of the full text of the speech:President Xi Jinping attends the G20 Extraordinary Virtual Leaders’ Summit on COVID-19 via video link in Beijing yesterday. – Xinhua Working Together to Defeat the COVID-19 OutbreakRemarks by H.E. Xi JinpingPresident of the

March 27, 2020 | BY admin

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Entry by foreign nationals holding Chinese visas, residence permits suspended

BEIJING – The central government last night announced the temporary suspension of foreign nationals’ entry holding valid Chinese visas or residence permits.In view of the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the world, the central government has decided to temporarily suspend the entry into the Chinese mainland by foreign nationals holding visas or residence permits still valid at the time of this announcement, effective from 0:00 a.m. today (March 27), said a statement jointly released by the

March 27, 2020 | BY admin

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World can take a leaf out of China’s crisis book

Commentary by Zhang Zhouxiang     “I request you to remain wherever you are …,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said while announcing a nationwide 21-day lockdown in a televised address on Tuesday night.The same day, the United Kingdom announced London’s exhibition center is to be turned into an emergency coronavirus hospital, making many equate it with the temporary hospitals China built in Wuhan, Hubei province.Whether they admit it or not, one country after another

March 27, 2020 | BY Zhang Zhouxiang

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2 Filipinos become Macau's 32nd & 33rd COVID-19 cases

Two non-resident workers from the Philippines became Macau's 32nd and 33rd COVID-19 cases today, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced. A statement by the centre tonight described both cases as imported. Macau has confirmed 23 imported cases since March 15. The 32nd case is a 31-year-old male bakery warehouse worker living in the first-floor flat "M" of Chi Lok Building in Rua de Fernao Mendes Pinto. The 33rd case is a 37-year-old female hotel

March 26, 2020 | BY admin

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