{"id":3042,"date":"2020-02-03T11:54:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:16:36","slug":"galaxy-donation-coronavirus-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/galaxy-donation-coronavirus-casino","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy donates US$2.5 million in fight against coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The donation will be used to purchase medical supplies and equipment in urgent demand in Hubei Province.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- In order to help the region to fight against the pneumonia outbreak, <strong><em>Galaxy Entertainment Group<\/em><\/strong> has followed the likes of Melco and Meg-Star Group in donating MOP20 million (US$2.5 million) to Hubei Province.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The money will be used to purchase medical supplies and equipment in urgent demand in the region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, Galaxy&#8217;s charitable foundation will donate MOP5 million (US$620.000) to assist the Macau in its fight against Coronavirus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cash will help local residents in need, including young children, students and the elderly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Galaxy is not the first operator to donate money to the cause. Last week, Meg-Star International Charity Association, the charity arm of the Meg-Star Group, donated MOP$10 million (\u20ac1.1 million) and Macau IR operator <strong><em>Melco Resorts &amp; Entertainment<\/em><\/strong> announced that it <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/melco-donation-coronavirus-resorts\">would donate HK$20 million<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (US$2.6 million) to purchase medical supplies and support local communities in Wuhan and Hubei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The donation will be used to purchase medical supplies and equipment in urgent demand in Hubei Province.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Major Macau-based integrated resort operators, including Galaxy Entertainment Group, Melco Resorts & Entertainment, and Meg-Star Group, have collectively donated over MOP50 million (US$6.2 million) to support Hubei Province and Macau in combating a pneumonia outbreak. These significant philanthropic contributions are earmarked for urgent medical supplies and local community assistance. The donations underscore the operators' commitment to corporate social responsibility during a regional health crisis.","focusai_entities":"Galaxy Entertainment Group, Melco, Meg-Star Group, Meg-Star International Charity Association, Galaxy\u2019s charitable foundation, Melco Resorts & Entertainment","focusai_location":"Hubei Province, Macau, Wuhan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"ESG Alignment","query":"How do these philanthropic efforts integrate into the operators' broader ESG frameworks and influence long-term stakeholder relations and regulatory standing in Macau?"},{"label":"Capital Market Impact","query":"What is the anticipated capital markets' response to these significant, non-operational expenditures, and how might they affect investor sentiment regarding the operators' financial resilience?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,157,16338,158],"tags":[7299,1263,257],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-coronavirus","tag-galaxy","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777009766,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/777009766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}