{"id":3184,"date":"2020-02-06T09:43:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T09:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:10:04","slug":"donation-casino-macau-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/donation-casino-macau-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"SJM donates US$2.5 million to fight against Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Money will be used to purchase much-needed medical supplies and protective equipment in Hubei Province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- <em><strong>Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, S.A. (SJM)<\/strong><\/em>  has donated MOP20 million (US$2.5 million) to Hubei Province to help the region in its fight against the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/topics\/coronavirus\">Coronavirus<\/a><\/em><\/strong> outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Daisy Ho, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SJM, said, \u201cThe donation carries with it our sincerest wishes for the Hubei people and for our Motherland. SJM stands firmly with the Macau SAR government and all Macau people in efforts to contain the spread of the Coronavirus. We wish a speedy recovery to all people and all economies that are affected by the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The money will be used to purchase much-needed medical supplies and protective equipment. Last week, <strong><em>Galaxy Entertainment Group<\/em><\/strong> and Melco also <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/galaxy-donation-coronavirus-casino\">donated US$2.5 million<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and Meg Star Group <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/meg-star-fund-coronavirus\">sent US$1.2 million<\/a><\/em><\/strong> to help with containment and treatment efforts in the region.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money will be used to purchase much-needed medical supplies and protective equipment in Hubei Province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, S.A. (SJM) has donated MOP20 million (US$2.5 million) to Hubei Province for Coronavirus relief, specifically for medical supplies and protective equipment. This follows similar significant donations from other Macau-based gaming operators, including Galaxy Entertainment Group, Melco, and Meg Star Group. The initiative underscores the industry's corporate social responsibility efforts during a public health crisis.","focusai_entities":"Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, S.A., SJM, Ms Daisy Ho, Galaxy Entertainment Group, Melco, Meg Star Group","focusai_location":"Macau, Hubei Province, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"CSR Impact Macau","query":"How do these significant corporate social responsibility initiatives by Macau's leading gaming operators influence their social license to operate and government relations within the SAR?"},{"label":"Future Philanthropy Strategy","query":"Given the collective philanthropic response to the Hubei crisis, what long-term implications might this have for the CSR and community engagement strategies of Macau's integrated resorts?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338],"tags":[7299,7986,257,6942],"class_list":["post-3184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-donation","tag-macau","tag-sjm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184","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=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777009767,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions\/777009767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}