The exclusion of the right comes as a defiant riposte to a UN rights committee and the US State Department, both of which lambasted Macao’s inadequate labour laws earlier this year.
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The global financial institution expects Macao to come roaring out of the pandemic and sustain double-digit growth into 2024.
A new report concludes that the slow approval process for foreign hires and post-pandemic competition for labour from other Asian resorts is harming the local gaming sector.
Visitors to the territory over the long weekend don’t appear to have read the memo on Macao’s economic diversification.
The ending of the mask mandate has seen a steep rise in local flu cases, with 60 percent more people than usual turning up at hospitals seeking treatment.
Average daily arrivals for the three-day Easter holiday period stand at more than 87,660 according to the latest figures.
Visitors from across the estuary made up almost 46 percent of the 74,000 arrivals recorded on 5 April, prompting optimistic forecasts from tourism officials.
The lack of workers is leaving many hotels struggling as tourists return on a wave of post-pandemic travel, Bloomberg says.
Upbeat, new reports are adding to the consensus that the post-pandemic recovery of Macao’s gaming industry is healthily on track.