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Casino revenue forecast revised amid slower start to 2025
Investment banking firm Jefferies has revised its forecast for the region’s gross gaming revenue (GGR) in 2025, lowering its prediction by 2% to 240 billion patacas. This adjustment follows weaker-than-expected revenue reported by the city’s (…)
Macau Daily Times -
11 March 2025
Macau facing an increasing shortage of care facilities for the elderly
The SAR is facing an increasing shortfall of elderly care spaces, despite government plans to expand capacity in the coming years. Government data indicates that as of 2021, there were 2,510 residential care beds in the city. This number had (…)
Macau Daily Times -
11 March 2025
Committee member urges Macau to boost platform role
During the National Top Advisory Bodies Plenary Meeting, Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Standing Committee Member Lao Nga Wong urged Macau to strengthen its role as a platform for connecting China with (…)
Macau Daily Times -
11 March 2025
Dismissed workers submit letter to gov’t over unfair dismissals
A group of former employees from a gaming operator submitted a letter to the government yesterday, alleging unfair dismissal without adequate compensation. The workers from Melco Resorts & Entertainment claim they were terminated without (…)
Macau Daily Times -
11 March 2025
Women suspected of defrauding a friend of an investment
A 43-year-old unemployed mainland woman has been arrested for allegedly posing as a shareholder of a Cotai VIP room and defrauding a female friend of approximately RMB1.37 million in a fake investment scheme, the Judiciary Police (PJ) announced. (…)
Macau Daily Times -
11 March 2025
FSS urges beneficiaries to provide annual proof of life
The Social Security Fund (FSS) is reminding approximately 168,000 old-age and disability pension beneficiaries to submit their annual proof of life by the end of March 2025. Currently, about 12,000 beneficiaries have not completed this (…)
Macau Daily Times -
11 March 2025
Scholarship application for 2024/2025 academic year announced
The Education Fund released the list of conditionally accepted scholarship applications under the “Higher Education Scholarship Financing Scheme” yesterday. Applicants can view the results on the scheme’s thematic page or visit the Education and (…)
Macau Daily Times -
11 March 2025
Foreign worker loses RMB50,000 in online loan scam
A male foreign worker fell victim to an online loan scam after responding to an advertisement. He registered an account and applied for a loan of RMB50,000. The so-called “customer service” claimed he had made an input error and demanded (…)
Macau Daily Times -
11 March 2025
MGM partners with Art Basel Hong Kong to support emerging art talents
MGM has announced its collaboration with Art Basel Hong Kong to promote global arts and culture through the inaugural “MGM Discoveries Art Prize.” The winner of this award, which recognizes innovative and original emerging artists, will be (…)
Macau Daily Times -
11 March 2025
More judicial efforts aim to protect rights of businesses
The work reports of the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate have sent strong signals that more judicial efforts will be made to equally protect the legitimate rights and interests of all types of businesses and to foster (…)
Macau Daily Times -
11 March 2025
Police say antisemitic terrorism plot in Sydney was ‘a hoax’
An explosives-filled trailer that Australian politicians earlier described as an antisemitic terrorism plot and a foiled mass casualty event was staged by criminals in a complicated hoax – and was never meant to be detonated, police said (…)
Macau Daily Times -
11 March 2025
1985 Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader
There is a new man in charge at the Kremlin – Mikhail Gorbachev has taken over following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. Chernenko, 73, died yesterday after a long illness – but his death was only announced to the Soviet people this morning. (…)
Macau Daily Times -
11 March 2025
Mbappé and Vinícius score as Real joins Barcelona at top of La Liga
Real Mad 2, Rayo Val 1 Kylian Mbappé and Vinícius Júnior scored goals in a five-minute span in the first half and Real Madrid held on to beat Rayo Vallecano 2-1 yesterday [Macau time] and move level on points with Barcelona at the top of the (…)
Macau Daily Times -
11 March 2025
Micro-wineries in Cyprus hope to give Homer’s wine a comeback
Praised by the ancient Greek giants Homer and Euripides for its superb quality nearly 3,000 years ago, Cyprus’ Commandaria is the world’s oldest recorded and named wine. Despite its rich heritage, the sweet wine has struggled to find its niche in (…)
Macau Daily Times -
11 March 2025