Govt not pressured over smoking lounges: Tam

Analysis by Xinhua writer Chen Binjie        GENEVA –  “I went to China this time with a special thing: a passport without any visa on it,” exclaimed Lucas Deckers, a Belgian in his 20s, on the Chinese video-sharing platform Douyin, with a picture showing him waving his burgundy travel document.Since earlier this year, China has implemented a visa-free policy that exempts many European ordinary passport holders from the time-consuming and costly obligation,

Macau's current COVID-19 outbreak, which began on June 18, has risen by just five cases to 1,810, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced this morning.Of the 5 cases, none was found in the community. All the cases were discovered in locked-down ("Red Code Zone") buildings and medical observation quarantine hotels, the centre said in a statement.According to the statement, the five cases were diagnosed between 00.00 and 11:59 p.m. yesterday.Macau's tally of