The International Airport of Macau handled 430,000 passengers in the month of January, up 3% year-on-year, according to figures released by the operator on Friday. There was also an overall 6% increase in flights in January taking the total number to over 4,700. The statement from CAM pointed to the greatest growth taking place on […]
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The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced on Thursday the arrests of three men from South Korea on suspicion of having run an illegal football and basketball gambling operation since November involving about HK$7 million in illegal bets. The trio are suspected of collecting illicit wagers on football and basketball games from their compatriots in South Korea […]
FreedThe Judiciary Police (PJ) busted a 44-year-old woman from Tanzania on Tuesday at the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal for smuggling 958 grammes of cocaine worth about 3.1 million patacas inside her body. PJ spokesman Choi Iat Peng told a special press conference Thursday that the police received a tip-off recently that someone would smuggle drugs […]
Las Vegas Sands Corp Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson said Wednesday that high-rollers were going to keep lying low to stay off the central government’s radar until the mainland’s current corruption crackdown, which he likened to a “witch hunt”, eases off. Adelson made the comments during a talk with students at the Institute for Tourism […]
Hong Kong-based property agency Ricacorp (Macau) Properties Limited Wednesday forecasted that the average price of residential property in Macau will rise eight to 10 percent this year. Jane Liu Zee Ka, managing director of the local branch, made the forecast during a press conference at the company in Nam Van district. Representatives of the company […]
Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Chau Wai Kuong said Tuesday that once more casinos start operating in Cotai more PJ officers will be deployed to the PJ branch there, adding that a space in the branch has already been set aside to set up an office for the officers investigating gaming-related crimes. Chau also said that […]
Indirectly-elected lawmaker Chan Hong, who heads the Macau Chinese Educators’ Association, urged the public University of Macau (UM) Monday to speed up its investigation into several alleged cases of sexual harassment involving staff members and then release the findings. She also said new legislation on indecent assault and sexual harassment should be in place to […]
Macau’s number of licensed motor vehicles reached 240,107 at the end of last year, up 5.3 percent from a year earlier, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Monday. Scooters and motorcycles accounted for 52 percent of the total number of motor vehicles. The number of new registrations of motor vehicles rose 6.4 percent year-on-year […]
Macau’s airport handled 5.48 million passengers last year, up nine percent from 2013. The figure was released on the sidelines of a Spring Festival dinner hosted by Macau International Airport Company (CAM) on Friday. The number of aircraft movements (takeoffs and touchdowns) rose 7.4 percent to 52,000. The figure included 2,791 business jet movements, up […]