Macao’s gross revenue from games of chance fell 93.2 per cent year-on-year to MOP 1.76 billion (US$221 million) last month, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) announced today.
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Macao’s gross domestic product (GDP) dropped 48.7 per cent year-on-year in real terms in Q1.
Macau unemployment rate of local residents grew 0.2 percentage points to 3.1 per cent.
Employees, the self-employed, professionals and companies will receive financial support from next month, as one of the government’s measures to tackle the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Former Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-ying, aka CY Leung, has exhorted everyone with HSBC bank accounts, especially Hong Kong officials and Hong Kong delegates to the legislative and consultative bodies in the mainland, to stop using them, to let British companies know “which side of their bread is buttered”.
Macau’s merchandise imports fell 44.1 per cent to MOP 3.84 billion last month.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said Tuesday that Hong Kong airport transit service will gradually resume from June 1.
Macao gaming magnate Stanley Ho Hung Sun passed away in Hong Kong at the age of 98 today, his family announced outside Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital.
Stanley Ho Hung-sun, chairman of Shun Tak Holdings, has died today at age 98.