Macau International Airport has cancelled 5,220 flights and has only 20 daily flights scheduled to operate in May.
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Alvis Lo Iek Long, a clinical director of the public Conde S. Januário Hospital Centre, said that the local government will continue its fight against the COVID-19 threat “as a matter of routine”, coinciding with the gradual restoration of normality in the community with the city’s COVID-19 spread risk “under control”.
Lau Wai Meng, one of the two vice-directors of the Economic Services Bureau (DSE), will be the new president of the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), the Portuguese-language radio channel of public broadcaster TDM reported on Thursday.
Firefighters battled a smoky fire that gutted a hut on the rooftop of Ling Nan Building in Avenida de Artur Tamagnini Barbosa in Toi San district on Thursday, Kuok Pan, head of the fire station in Areia Preta district told reporters at the scene on Thursday.
A “severely decomposed” carcass of a Chinese white dolphin was found off the rocky shoreline near Tam Kung Temple in Coloane on Thursday, statements from the Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said on Thursday.
The Communications Museum opens to the public free of charge from today to Monday to celebrate the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on Sunday and the International Museum Day (IMD) on Monday, according to a statement from the Macau Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT) on Thursday.
The “Macau Tourism Branding and Media Effectiveness Evaluation” of four mega-events held last year all reached “a high level of public awareness and a good to great level of satisfaction”.
Gaming operator Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited reported on Wednesday an operating loss of US$149.9 million for the first quarter of this year, compared with operating income of US$191.1 million in the same quarter of last year.
The Macau government’s current NAT scheme at the Taipa Ferry Terminal will be extended from today to mainlanders based on some exemptions.
Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Wednesday that its net revenue fell 61% both year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter to HK$5.1 billion in the first quarter.
US gaming mogul Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands has given up on its US$10 billion casino project in Japan, Fox Business reported on Tuesday.
Macau has had no new imported COVID-19 cases for 35 consecutive days since April 8 – another patient discharged today, leaving only 2 hospitalised.