For Macau resident, António Leong, photography is just a hobby, but this hasn’t stopped his shots being selected as editor’s picks by National Geographic. He’s amassed quite a following on social media too with over 12,000 likes for his Facebook page Antonius Photoscript. Wednesday marked the start of his first photo exhibition in Macau, La […]
Year: 2016
Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said on Wednesday that the local government strongly objected to a human rights report published by the US government recently, describing it as “irresponsible gossip”. Wong made the remarks on the sidelines of an awards ceremony for firefighters at the Fire Services Bureau (CB) headquarters in Nam Van. […]
SJM Managing Director Angela Leong On Kei and Wynn Macau Executive Director Linda Chen said that they believe that Macau’s six gaming operators’ revenue from non-gaming business will exceed nine per cent of their total income by 2020, 2.4 percentage points up from 2014. The government laid down the goal for the city’s gaming operators […]
Think tank head Lao Pun Lap said he hoped the government’s first ever Five-Year Development Plan will become a “joint action agenda” for the government and the community at large, adding that the government would adopt “more open, transparent and interactive” ways to collect public opinion on the plan. Lao, who heads the government’s Policy Research […]
Macau’s first five-year draft plan says the Island Hospital will only be ready after 2019, at least three years behind schedule. Last December, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam went to the Legislative Assembly and pledged to have the city’s second public hospital ready by 2019. A few months later, the government has […]
The 28-nation European Union (EU) says in its annual Macau report that “the functioning of the government needs to be modernised and made more efficient.” The European Commission also says in its Annual Report 2015 that “the EU encourages the Macau authorities to consider ways to promote greater public involvement in the election of the […]
Banco National Ultramarino, S.A. (BNU) recorded a net income of MOP 510.3 million (USS63.88 million) in 2015, up 15.1 per cent from MOP 443.3 million in 2014, according to a press release issued on Tuesday by the bank. The financial results also indicate that in 2015 BNU registered a 21.6 per cent increase in credit […]
A main supporting pillar of an endangered shipyard in Coloane has collapsed on Monday morning. Authorities cordoned off the area and the Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture visited the site and listened to the residents’ complaints, stressing the government’s commitment to revitalize the area. However villagers demand immediate action and call for a sit-down […]
Macau’s visitor arrivals rose by 4.2 per cent year-on-year to 2.36 million, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. While overnight visitors increased by 14.1 per cent to 1.17 million, same-day visitors dropped by 3.9 per cent to 1.19 million. Overnight visitors accounted for 49.6 per cent of all visitor arrivals last month. Most […]