Melco hires 100 local construction workers

Macau gaming operator Melco Resorts and Entertainment said in a statement today that it has offered 100 job opportunities to unemployed local construction workers in conjunction with the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) and Macau Federation of Trade Unions (commonly known as Gung Luen, its Cantonese name). The statement said that the company took the initiative to hire the workers "in light of the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak which heavily impacts the construction

March 16, 2020 | BY admin

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Wynn Resorts to temporarily close Wynn Las Vegas

US-Macau gaming operator Wynn Resorts said in a statement received by The Macau Post Daily today that it has decided to temporarily close Wynn Las Vegas and Encore as part of its continuing effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19. According to the statement released in Las Vegas on Sunday, the company "has committed to pay all-full-time Wynn and Encore employees during the closure."The closure will be effective tomorrow (March 17) at 6 p.m. (local time) "and is expected to

March 16, 2020 | BY admin

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SJM Holdings' net profit rises 12.5 pct in 2019

Macau gaming operator SJM Holdings said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange today that its net profit rose 12.5 percent year-on-year to HK$3.2 billion in 2019. According to the statement, net gaming revenue increased 1.5 percent to HK$33.16 billion last year, while income from hotels, catering, retail and other businesses grew 5.4 percent to HK$1.05 billion. Adjusted EBITDA increased 13.2 percent to HK$4.2 billion. According to the statement, SJM, a subsidiary of the

March 16, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau regulator lowers base rate to 0.86 pct

The Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) today lowered its base rate (BR) of the discount window by 64 basis points to 0.86 percent. It was the second time this month for Macau’s quasi-central bank to lower its policy rate. On March 4, it lowered the rate by 50 basis points to 1.50 percent. The regulator said in today’s statement that "as the pataca is linked to the Hong Kong dollar, the movements of policy rates in Hong Kong and Macau should be basically consistent in order tomaintain

March 16, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau confirms 11th COVID-19 case – S Korean woman returning from visit to Portugal

The government’s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in the early hours of today that Macau confirmed an imported case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-10) last night, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 11, after the city had not confirmed a new COVID-19 case for 39 consecutive days.According to a statement by the centre, the latest patient is a 26-year-old female non-resident worker from South Korea. The woman left Macau and travelled to Porto with her

March 16, 2020 | BY admin

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Govt to offer locals returning home via HK transport to Macau

Addressing yesterday’s daily press conference about the local government’s ongoing fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) threat, Inês Chan Lou, who heads the Licensing and Inspection Department of the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), announced that from tomorrow to next Sunday, the Macau government will offer Macau residents who arrive at Hong Kong’s airport from Europe transport to Macau, adding that those who want to join the measure will have to register with the Macau

March 16, 2020 | BY admin

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Snapshots of daily life as city fights COVID-19

Pedestrians look at a tree in the courtyard of Alberge SCM. People can toss a coin into a wishing well in the courtyard, make a wish, write it down on a piece of red heart-shaped paper, then hang it onto the tree. The money collected from the wishing well will be transferred to a donation box.A cleaner sweeps the staircase of a residential building.  Shoppers walk in the Venetian’s unusually empty mall. Photos taken over the weekend by Camy Tam and Sally Chong

March 16, 2020 | BY admin

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Woman steals shopping trolley full of goods & cash worth 8,900 patacas

A local woman has been arrested for stealing a shopping trolley filled with goods and a wallet full of cash that was left outside a clothes shop, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said on Friday.The suspect is a local resident surnamed Wong, 65, who is unemployed.According to the spokesperson, a non-resident worker put her shopping trolley outside a shop in Rua da Emenda when she went in to buy clothes on March 5. When she left the shop, she found her trolley including her wallet had

March 16, 2020 | BY admin

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Meeting on overall plan for Guangdong-Macau cooperation zone held in Macau

Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng (right) shakes hands with Guangdong Governor Ma Xingrui at the local Government Headquarters on the sidelines of a bilateral working meeting on Friday. The meeting focused on cooperation between Macau and Guangdong, with special emphasis on the joint development of Hengqin Island and further collaboration in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) which comprises nine Guangdong cities, Macau and Hong Kong. Customarily, both sides hold one cooperation meeting a year, one year in

March 16, 2020 | BY admin

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COVID-19 is certainly not surreal -- Editorial

A pedestrian interviewed by a US TV station in New York early last week described the novel coronavirus situation as “surreal”. A local media friend of mine described the lobby of a hotel-casino resort in Cotai left empty by the COVID-19 pandemic as a “surreal” sight. Much to my surprise I have heard the word too many times – almost ad nauseam – in TV reports about the viral threat. Well, COVID-19 is surely not surreal. It is mortally real. The threat is out there, and it’s all

March 16, 2020 | BY admin

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UM teachers, students display their GBA photos

An exhibition of photos taken by teachers and students from the University of Macau’s (UM) Department of Chinese Language and Literature, titled “Teaching and Learning: Entering the Greater Bay Area”, is on display at the 10 Fantasia gallery.The event is being co-hosted by 10 Fantasia – A Creative Industries Incubator and the St. Lazarus Church District Creative Industries Promotion Association.According to a message sent by the gallery to The Macau Post Daily last week, the photos are

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Welsh deacon to head Macau's Catholic university USJ

The University of Saint Joseph (USJ) has announced the appointment of Stephen Morgan, a Welsh deacon who has been a professor at the Catholic university since September 2019, as its next rector. According to a USJ statement, the university's chancellor, Macau Catholic Bishop Stephen Lee Bun-sang announced during a meeting of its General Council on Saturday that the university's titleholder, the Catholic Foundation of Higher Education, appointed Prof. Morgan on March 7 as the incoming

March 15, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau extends quarantine to whole Schengen Area and beyond

The Macau government extended today its quarantine measures for arrivals to all of the 26 nations in the Schengen Area as well as the UK, US, Egypt, Australia, Russia, Canada, and Brazil. The measure, which takes effect at 0:00 on Tuesday, was announced during the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre's daily press conference about the COVID-19 epidemic. Arrivals from four Schengen Area countries - Germany, Italy, France and Spain, as well as South Korea, Iran and Japan

March 14, 2020 | BY admin

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National table tennis team training in Macau

The nation's table tennis team comprising 47 members has arrived in Macau for training, the Macau Sports Bureau (ID) has announced.According to a statement by the bureau on Friday, the team arrived in Macau via Hong Kong from Qatar on Friday. The team competed in the ITTF Tour in the emirate last month and stayed there until Friday for training.The statement stressed that for 14 days after their arrival here the team's training will take place behind closed doors. The team members will wear

March 14, 2020 | BY admin

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