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Macao gets new Chief Executive: What is China’s relationship with the region?

October 15, 2024 2:17 pm

Mainland China authorities are viewed more positively in Macao than in Hong Kong, the other Chinese Special Administrative Region. Here is the context for its recent election, and how it marked some changes.

Typhoon Saola makes landfall in Guangdong after slamming Hong Kong, Macau

September 02, 2023 6:16 pm

Hong Kong and China's neighbouring populous province of Guangdong had cancelled hundreds of flights on Friday and shut businesses, schools and financial markets as Saola had edged closer

Macau hotel locked down after Covid case, 700 people to be quarantined-media

June 21, 2022 8:19 pm

The lockdown comes as the Chinese special administrative region carries out a two-day mass testing of its more than 600,000 population after dozens of locally transmitted coronavirus cases were discovered over the weekend.

Macau asks casinos to suspend operations to curb coronavirus spread

February 04, 2020 3:25 pm

The move will be a major blow for the gambling enclave that reported the fourth straight month of revenue fall as China imposed travel curbs.

Top Macau official dies after falling from his residential building: China

October 21, 2018 11:37 am

The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of China's State Council says in a statement Sunday that Zheng Xiaosong, the director of China's liaison office in Macau, was suffering from depression.

Cosmos Bank: Rs 13.5 cr transferred to Macau in malware attack, says probe

August 25, 2018 7:31 am

The attack on the 112-year-old co-operative bank was coordinated in two parts: in the first part that took place on Saturday, debit card data was compromised and used on cloned cards while in the second part that took place on Monday, an international SWIFT transfer was made to a Hong Kong bank.

Death toll rises to 12 as typhoon Hato hit Macau, Hong Kong

August 24, 2017 1:28 pm

Typhoon Hato had been downgraded to a tropical storm on Thursday and was about 680 km (422 miles) west of Hong Kong and expected to weaken further as it moves inland over China.

Powerful typhoon kills at least 3 in Macau

August 23, 2017 5:28 pm

Hato knocked out power in Macau, including at its famed casinos and a hospital, where backup generators kicked in. Flooding and injuries were reported in Hong Kong, which lies across the water 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Macau, but there were no reports of deaths.

More than 50 injured in Hong Kong ferry crash

June 13, 2014 12:59 pm

Earlier in October 2012, around 39 people died in a fatal collision a passenger ferry and a pleasure boat in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong, Macau need RBI nod to set up business in India

January 16, 2014 3:13 am

Entities from these countries are not allowed to acquire immovable property in India even for a branch office.

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