Cancelled new year banquets, few mainland visitors and rising costs likely to compel restaurants to change business model, says Andrew Chan Chak Mo.
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Over the past year, out of 4,923 workers contacted by the Labour Affairs Bureau, only 1,043 were eventually employed; salary and conditions also cited as factors.
Overall ‘tolerance’ levels continue to fall, as does air quality, but toilets are cleaner. Gaming Research Association gives no indication that Covid-19 is affecting conditions.
Ferries will depart from Outer Harbour and Taipa terminals; passengers warned to take heed of Covid-19 prevention and control measures in Guangdong.
Hi-tech terminal should be finished by 2024, ready to attract cruise passengers who visited in their thousands in pre-pandemic times.
Musicians, uncertain of their future, complain of unfair levels of compensation and poor treatment by IC.
Grave concerns over fate of numerous employees at city’s 18 satellite casinos, whose future is in doubt; draft passed to standing committee for detailed inspection.
Scheduled for completion by 2025, the development is due to comprise 4,800 units as well as retail space and a public transport interchange.
Around 400,000 boxes of fruit and frozen food disinfected every month and 300 tested daily as part of massive Covid-19 precautions.
Development’s 88 units are spread over four blocks, with access to water and energy and a playground.
Report concludes Macao needs to build a stronger economy with new growth engines through economic diversification.
Postal chief admits scientific evidence of virus in letters and parcels still lacking, but errs on side of caution, urges residents to be patient.