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1 million hotel guests in Macau during August    

1 million hotel guests in Macau during August    

Macau’s 105 hotels recorded 1.07 million guests in August, a year-on-year increase of 7.7 per cent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Friday. Guests from the mainland (688,000), Hong Kong (178,000) and Taiwan (40,000) rose 5.5 per cent, 14.3 percent and 11.8 per cent respectively. The number of guests from South Korea leapt […]
Macau government to celebrate panda twins’ 100-day birthday

Macau government to celebrate panda twins’ 100-day birthday

The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) will hold a special 100-day birthday party for the locally born baby panda twins Kin Kin and Hong Hong on Monday in Coloane’s Seac Pai Van Park, according to a statement released by the bureau on Friday. Kin Kin and Hong Hong, the twins’ names in Cantonese, means […]
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge deck is completed

Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge deck is completed

The final piece of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge – a 35-tonne expansion joint – was placed last Tuesday, announced in Zhuhai city the director of the Bridge Authority, Zhu Yongling. Zhu said that placement of this final piece means that construction work on the bridge, which has a deck 22.9 kilometres long, is now completed. […]
Government to hold Wushu Master Challenge in Macau next year

Government to hold Wushu Master Challenge in Macau next year

The government will hold the Wushu Masters Challenge again next year as the findings of a survey show that the event was popular among tourists and residents alike, Sports Bureau (ID) President Pun Weng Kun announced during a press conference at the Federal Restaurant in Zape on Thursday. Pun made the remarks during the press […]
Merchandise imports increase in August in Macau

Merchandise imports increase in August in Macau

The value of merchandise imports in August registered an increase for the first time since August 2015, up by 1.8 per cent year-on-year to MOP6.92 billion. According to information released on Thursday by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), imports of large passenger cars surged by 722.9 per cent and imports of watches and gold […]
LRT in Taipa to start operating in 2019 says Secretary Raimundo do Rosário

LRT in Taipa to start operating in 2019 says Secretary Raimundo do Rosário

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário said on Wednesday he was confident that the Taipa section of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) will start running in 2019. Rosario made the upbeat remark while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a plaque unveiling ceremony that marked the official re-opening of the Carmo […]
Macau government insists on location of new central library

Macau government insists on location of new central library

Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Guilherme Ung Vai Meng said Tuesday on the sidelines of a regular Cultural Heritage Council meeting that the government had already made up its mind to build the new central library at the Old Courthouse. Ung also said the bidding process for the library’s detailed design plan would start later […]
Macau jobless rate stays at 1.9 per cent

Macau jobless rate stays at 1.9 per cent

Macau’s officially estimated unemployment rate remained at 1.9 per cent in the Statistics and Census Bureau’s (DSEC) June-August employment survey period compared with the May-July period. The bureau said in a statement on Tuesday that the rate also stayed unchanged from the same period last year. The city’s total labour force in June-August amounted to […]
Venezuelan nurse caught in Macau with cocaine worth 12 million patacas

Venezuelan nurse caught in Macau with cocaine worth 12 million patacas

S4.1 kilo-grammes of cocaine hidden in the lining of her suitcase, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said. According to the spokesperson, the drugs have a street value of about 12 million patacas. After receiving a tip-off that traffickers were planning to smug-gle drugs into the city hidden in the linings of their suitcases, the police […]
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