Melco Resorts supports Tung Sin Tong’s welfare programmes

Macau casino operator Melco Resorts & Entertainment Ltd has donated MOP700,000 (US$86,634) to the Macau Tung Sin Tong Charitable Society. The company said in a recent press release the donation was intended to support the organisation’s social welfare and poverty relief work. Founded in 1892, Tung Sin Tong provides free medical care, medicines and education to people in need. The latest donation will help fund the charity’s welfare campaigns and initiatives aimed at alleviating poverty, Melco Resorts added. The casino operator presented the cheque at its City of Dreams resort in Macau. Melco Resorts chairman and chief executive, Lawrence Ho Yau Lung, and the company’s chief adviser, Kent Wong, received a Tung Sin Tong delegation led by its board chairman, José Chui Sai Peng. The association’s vice chairman Jeffrey Vong and directors Lee Koi Ian and Manuel Io also attended the presentation and accepted the donation on behalf of the charity.