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Workplace policies could ease Macao’s birth rate woes, experts say
Macao News
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August 29, 2025
Policies such as the Macao government’s new temporary childcare allowance may only serve as a band-aid for Macao’s falling birth rates, according to international fertility experts. Academics cite structural socio-economic factors and a lack of...
Macau urged to seize role as regional leader in digital health
Macau Daily Times
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August 29, 2025
Amid rising health challenges and an aging population, Macau should leverage artificial intelligence and digital health technologies to strengthen healthcare services and drive economic diversification, Professor Henry Tong of Macau Polytechnic...
Shiji Daylight PMS selected by MGM Grand Paradise to power operations at two of Macao’s most iconic resorts
Hospitality Net
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August 29, 2025
BEIJING, China – Shiji, the global hospitality technology leader, is proud to announce that MGM Grand Paradise has selected Daylight PMS, Shiji’s next-generation cloud property management system, to power operations at its flagship resorts in...
Macau 2049 garners innovative performance IP award
The Macau Post Daily
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Integrated resort (IR) operator MGM said in a statement on Wednesday that its residency “Macau 2049” has received the Annual Innovative Performance IP Award at the 2025 Weibo Cultural Night held in Zhengzhou. Jointly presented by MGM and renowned...
What’s in store for Macao’s GGR? Here are 3 factors worth monitoring
Macao News
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August 29, 2025
Following consecutive gross gaming revenue (GGR) beats, industry watchers are poised to thoroughly comb through the August data when the numbers are released next week. Investment analysts have turned more optimistic on the sector’s outlook with...
Roundup: Chinese Surveillance Tech and Norms Spread Abroad
China Digital Times (CDT)
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August 28, 2025
Reports and other media articles over the past month detail the ways in which the technology and norms underpinning China’s surveillance industry are proliferating in other countries around the world. This week, Emily Baker-White at Forbes...
Macao’s citywide consumption drive is tipped to greatly boost local spending
Macao News
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August 28, 2025
Macao’s new 13-week long consumption campaign, which will run from 1 September to 30 November, is expected to drive Macao’s stable economic recovery during what is traditionally an off-peak season for the local tourism industry. Such remarks were...
Macao’s newly restructured State Key Laboratories have been inaugurated
Macao News
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August 27, 2025
Beijing’s National Ministry of Science and Technology awarded plaques to Macao’s designated State Key Laboratories yesterday, to mark the four research institutions’ successful restructuring. Following the upgrade, the four laboratories are now...
Hong Kong stages large-scale counter-terrorism drill, showcases high-tech such as robotic dogs
Global Times
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The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government conducted a large-scale counter-terrorism drill on August 28, 2025 at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal. Photo: VCG The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government conducted a...
Macau logs 3rd Mpox case: Health Bureau
The Macau Post Daily
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Macau recorded a Mpox case yesterday, which came after two cases were reported here in 2023, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement last night. Last night’s statement noted that the Mpox case reported yesterday is the third one since...
Visitors’ average stay in Macao has been shortening. That may not be such a bad thing.
Macao News
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August 28, 2025
Travellers left after an average of 1.1 days in Macao during the first half of 2025 – a pattern that, if continued, would make the average length of stay this year the lowest in a decade. Is that a bad thing? Not according to researcher Ali Bavik...
Turning hell into heaven: Macao priest Father Gaetano Nicosia embarks on the path to sainthood
Macao News
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August 28, 2025
Start from Sai Van Bridge and head south. Past the fast cars and faster talkers of Taipa’s town centre, past the hopeful gamblers and fastidious hoteliers on Cotai Strip. Take a left when you reach the Ilha de Coloane. There, tucked in the corner...
Macao Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai will visit Portugal and Spain next month
Macao News
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August 27, 2025
Chief Executive (CE) Sam Hou Fai of Macao is scheduled to visit Portugal and Spain between 16 and 23 September in what will be his first overseas trip since taking the city’s highest office on 20 December last year. According to an announcement by...
Can Macau handle 40M tourists per year? And should it?
Asia Gaming Brief
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August 28, 2025
Stress tests. Night tourism. More improvements to transportation and infrastructure. All of these are needed for Macau to reach its goal of 40 million tourists in 2025 without hitting a saturation point. “There’s no problem with 40 million...
Macau’s 4 state key labs get official plaques from MOST
The Macau Post Daily
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Macau’s four State Key Laboratories were presented with their official plaques by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) yesterday. The presentation ceremony was co-officiated by Science and Technology Minister Yin Hejun, Liaison Office of...
Only 17.1 pct of Macau’s clerical staff understand Labour Relations Law: survey
The Macau Post Daily
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The Macau Federation of Trade Unions (aka Gung Luen) co-hosted a press conference in conjunction with the Macau Clerical Employees General Association to announce that the findings of their latest survey show that a mere 17.1 percent of clerical...
Macau saw surge in suspicious casino chip conversions in 2024
Asia Gaming Brief
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August 26, 2025
Macau’s Financial Intelligence Office (GIF) said chip conversions without or with minimal gambling remained the most reported suspicious activity in 2024, topping the list for a second consecutive year amid a surge in alerts filed by the city’s...
MACAU REPORT: Innovation beyond casinos
Asian Legal Business
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Macau's legal market – one of China's most mature yet insular – is experiencing a quiet revolution as the city's ambitious economic diversification strategy creates new opportunities beyond its traditional gaming and real estate strongholds. With...
19 national key laboratories unveiled in Hong Kong and Macao
CGTN
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Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun unveiled plaques for 15 national key laboratories in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, August 25, 2025. /VCG Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun unveiled plaques...
Macau logs this year 9th imported chikungunya case
The Macau Post Daily
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Macau recorded this year’s ninth imported case of chikungunya fever yesterday, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement last night. According to the statement, the patient is a 53-year-old local man who works in Macau but lives in the...