{"id":24366,"date":"2022-12-30T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=24366"},"modified":"2022-12-30T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T07:46:00","slug":"tough-odds-for-macau-as-casinos-pray-for-a-pandemic-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=24366","title":{"rendered":"Tough odds for Macau as casinos pray for a pandemic shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Pinky Tam lost her job in Macau last year, she found herself among the many thousands cast adrift as the city\u2019s casino industry crumbled beneath the twin forces of politics and a pandemic. The former Portuguese colony has been limping for nearly three years as coronavirus restrictions have kept away mainland Chinese tourists&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/business\/tough-odds-for-macau-as-casinos-pray-for-a-pandemic-shift\/article\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Pinky Tam lost her job in Macau last year, she found herself among the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24366-tough-odds-for-macau-as-casinos-pray-for-a-pandemic-shift.jpg",768,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24366-tough-odds-for-macau-as-casinos-pray-for-a-pandemic-shift-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24366-tough-odds-for-macau-as-casinos-pray-for-a-pandemic-shift-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24366-tough-odds-for-macau-as-casinos-pray-for-a-pandemic-shift.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24366-tough-odds-for-macau-as-casinos-pray-for-a-pandemic-shift.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24366-tough-odds-for-macau-as-casinos-pray-for-a-pandemic-shift.jpg",768,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24366-tough-odds-for-macau-as-casinos-pray-for-a-pandemic-shift.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24366-tough-odds-for-macau-as-casinos-pray-for-a-pandemic-shift.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24366-tough-odds-for-macau-as-casinos-pray-for-a-pandemic-shift.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24366-tough-odds-for-macau-as-casinos-pray-for-a-pandemic-shift-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}