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Year: 2016

Shakespeare and Chinese opera dominate Macao Arts Festival

Shakespeare and Chinese opera dominate Macao Arts Festival

Performances of William Shakespeare’s work and Chinese opera occupy a large part of this year’s Macao Arts Festival (MAF) to mark the 400th anniversary of the deaths of the Bard of Avon and Ming Dynasty’s famed playwright Tang Xianzu. The festival, which takes place from April 30 to May 29, will open with a theatrical […]
China says five-year plan will benefit Macau and Hong Kong

China says five-year plan will benefit Macau and Hong Kong

China’s 13th five-year plan, which will be reviewed at the upcoming parliamentary session, will bring “good news” for Hong Kong and Macau, a spokesperson for the national political advisory body revealed on Wednesday. Beijing places great emphasis on the role of Hong Kong and Macau in the comprehensive development of the People’s Republic of China, […]
Macau government axes 5 La Scala leaseholds

Macau government axes 5 La Scala leaseholds

The provisional leaseholds of five plots of land where the aborted La Scala residential project is located, covering an area of 78,789 square metres, or around 95 percent of the project site’s total area, have been annulled because the plots had not been developed when the leaseholds expired on December 13, according to Official Gazette […]
Three arrested in Macau’s third greatest drug bust since 1999

Three arrested in Macau’s third greatest drug bust since 1999

The Judiciary Police (PJ) raided a drug trafficking syndicate and arrested three foreign suspects in what they are describing as the third largest drug trafficking case since 1999. A total of six kilograms of cocaine was appropriated with an estimate street value of MOP18 million. The police first arrested a Nigerian man as he was […]
Macau’s former chief prosecutor Ho Chio-meng fails in release bid after arrest

Macau’s former chief prosecutor Ho Chio-meng fails in release bid after arrest

Macau’s former chief prosecutor was back in prison on Tuesday night after the city’s top court rejected his bid for release on the grounds that he was wrongly detained following his arrest in connection with an alleged multimillion-dollar corruption racket. The city’s Court of Final Appeal threw out a habeas corpus application from Ho Chio-meng […]
Chan pledges to make Macau government more efficient

Chan pledges to make Macau government more efficient

Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan said that she and her staff would put every effort into making the government more efficient. “In the year ahead, in order to implement the Special Administrative Region government’s policy of strenghtening the economy, improving the wellbeing of residents and consolidating development, the administration and justice […]
Macau’s trade deficit improves by 21 percent in January

Macau’s trade deficit improves by 21 percent in January

Macau’s balance of trade deficit recorded a 21 percent improvement in January due to a contraction of 1.579 billion patacas in goods imports, reported the region’s Statistics and Census Bureau. In January Macau imported goods worth 6.956 billion patacas, against 9.493 billion patacas a year earlier, which together with an increase 1.5 percent in exports […]
Macau’s gambling revenue growth best in 20 months

Macau’s gambling revenue growth best in 20 months

Macau on Tuesday (Mar 1) posted its best monthly gambling revenue performance since October last year and the smallest drop in growth in 20 months as an increase in Lunar New Year tourists boosted the world’s largest casino hub. Macau’s economy, which relies on the casino industry for over 80 per cent of government revenues, […]
Sonia Chan says MP tendering process in Macau will be reviewed

Sonia Chan says MP tendering process in Macau will be reviewed

The Secretary for Administration and Justice told journalists that the eventual need to renew or restructure staffing in the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) is a matter for the MP. However, she also said that there is a plan to review the way the MP assesses tenders and decides upon the suppliers of works and services. […]
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