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MACAO — The A-Ma Temple is ordinarily the first stop in the morning for buses filled with Chinese tourists, who flock to the 500-year-old site to light incense and pray for good fortune before hitting the casinos ... Macao, which has 10 confirmed cases of the illness, isn’t on lockdown like cities across the border in mainland China....

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Coronavirus shutdown costing Macao's gaming industry $100 million a day. Why are casinos OK with that?

Finger Lakes Times 11 Feb 2020

MACAO - The A-Ma Temple is ordinarily the first stop in the morning for buses filled with Chinese tourists, who flock to the 500-year-old site to light incense and pray for good fortune before hitting the casinos ... Macao, which has 10 confirmed cases of the illness, isn't on lockdown like cities across the border in mainland China....

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Why Macao’s casinos support an unprecedented shutdown: Their futures could depend on it

The Los Angeles Times 10 Feb 2020

MACAO — ... Macao, which has 10 confirmed cases of the illness, isn’t on lockdown like cities across the border in mainland China ... A man wearing a protective mask looks at his phone as he stands outside of a jewelry store in a shopping district in Macao ... China, the source of 7 out of every 10 visitors to Macao, remains steeped in crisis....

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Central government supports diversified development of Macao

Mareeg 21 Dec 2019

The Gongbei Port, which links Zhuhai, South China’s Guangdong Province to Macao, has promoted measures such as “centralized declaration” and “24-hour appointment customs clearance” to ensure “zero stagnation” of fresh agricultural products, said Wang....

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Central bank supports yuan remittances in SAR

People Daily 21 Dec 2019

Macao is the off-shore market, and Hengqin is the on-shore one ... Relying on the gambling industry, which contributes to half of its GDP, Macao has reached a point where it should diversify its economy based on its own conditions and explore fresh growth engines, and there is huge potential for the city, officials and experts said....

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Greater Bay vision takes tangible shape

People Daily 19 Dec 2019

After almost a year's development, China's ambitious Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has been gradually taking shape and injecting fresh momentum to the two special administrative regions (SAR), industry observers said ... Macao SAR further into the grand national plan....

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Macao, mainland's 20-year journey of shared development

Sina 16 Dec 2019

MACAO, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- It takes just half an hour for Cai Yuanbo to travel from his home in Macao to his office in Hengqin, Zhuhai City on the Chinese mainland ... Every morning, trucks loaded with fresh produce run through Zhuhai's Gongbei Border Checkpoint to markets in Macao ... In 2018, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge opened to traffic....

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Across China: Mainland water powers Macao's development

CCTV 16 Dec 2019

14 -- For those who still remember what it was like to suffer from water shortages, like 80-year-old Macao resident Lee Zan Dok, fresh and clean water is seen as the lifeline of everything ... 4, 2019 shows a view of the Zhuxiandong reservoir, which has been delivering water to Macao, in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province....

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Xinhua Headlines: Macao, mainland's 20-year journey of shared development

Xinhua 15 Dec 2019

Macao has enjoyed tremendous development since it returned to the motherland 20 years ago ... MACAO, Dec ... Paul's complex in Macao, south China, Dec ... Every morning, trucks loaded with fresh produce run through Zhuhai's Gongbei Border Checkpoint to markets in Macao ... In 2003, the mainland and Macao signed the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement....

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Mainland water powers Macao's development

Sina 15 Dec 2019

14 (Xinhua) -- For those who still remember what it was like to suffer from water shortages, like 80-year-old Macao resident Lee Zan Dok, fresh and clean water is seen as the lifeline of everything ... Lee, also the author of a book on 500 years of water affairs in Macao, recalled that residents had relied on groundwater for hundreds of years....

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Macao's achievements illustrate vitality of "one country, two systems," says diplomat

Xinhua 12 Dec 2019

Addressing a photo exhibition to mark the 20th anniversary of Macao's return to China at the United Nations (UN)'s Geneva headquarters, China's Permanent Representative to the UN Office at Geneva Chen Xu said that the exhibition will give visitors a fresh look at Macao's dramatic changes and development....