In the first half year of 2018, visitor arrivals to Macau totalled 16,814,190, up by 8.0% year-on-year, according to the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
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The Economic Services Bureau (DSE) said in a statement Sunday that it was unable to recover a 212 million patacas (US$ 26,424 million) loan granted to locally incorporated airline Viva Macau in 2008-09 and the latter’s Hong Kong-registered Eagle Airways as guarantor.
The Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. has abandoned 533 greyhounds at the Canidrome on Friday night after the government refused their proposal to keep the Canidrome operational in order to keep the animals.
The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau said in a statement that it “condemns” the Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. for “shirking” its responsibility to house its greyhounds after it had received a letter from the company proposing the “reversion” of the dogs to the government after the official closure of the racetrack .
The government’s current budget surplus reached 30.52 billion patacas at the end of June, a year-on-year increase of 50.8 percent, the Finance Services Bureau (DSF) announced Thursday.
The government announced Wednesday that it has contingency plans for the greyhounds from the Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. in the case that the dogs are left behind at the racetrack in Fai Chi Kei after its official closure Friday night.
With a stable economy, housing prices would have a stable rise of within 10 percent for the whole year, which is “very healthy” and the next step for the government is to help young couples get on the property ladder as a way to solve the under supply problem, as forecast by the local branch of US-based real estate consultancy firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).
The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) has found a kindergarten involved in an alleged sexual abuse case earlier this year had mishandled the incident and also had failed to respond to the case in line with DSEJ regulations
The government’s latest overall budget for the Light Rail Transit (LRT) project amounts to 16.4 billion patacas ( US$ 2.05 billion) – but not including the still unscheduled LRT peninsula section, Mak Soi Kun, who heads the legislature’s Follow-up Committee for Public Finance Affairs, quoted government officials as saying.