\u201cSome hotels asked their workers to volunteer to help with the clean-up,\u201d\u00a0local gaming industry labor leader Lei Kuok-keong told the Post<\/em>. \u201cWe also heard some complaints that employees were forced to go to work by taking taxis during typhoons but were told they would not be reimbursed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nMacau\u2019s director of Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau resigned on Thursday, for his organization\u2019s apparent failure to provide adequate warning about Typhoon Hato\u2019s severity. The bureau since is reportedly being investigated by Macau\u2019s anti-graft agency for signs of malfeasance.<\/p>\n
There are concerns that meteorological officials may have delayed issuing appropriate warnings because of the financial repercussions of ordering the casinos to close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As Macau battled to recover from the aftermath of Typhoon Hato, the fiercest storm to hit the area since 1968, the gambling enclave got battered by another severe storm Sunday night. Emergency workers were still struggling to repair the damage from Wednesday\u2019s maximum category 10 typhoon when \u201cPakhar,\u201d a category 8 severe tropical storm, struck. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":57450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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