Macau’s number of Japanese visitor arrivals dropped 21.6 percent year-on-year in October to 25,562, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced Friday. Local tourism industry sources contacted by The Macau Post Daily attributed the sharp decline to the ongoing Sino-Japanese row over the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. The central government says […]
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Legislative Assembly 2nd Standing Committee President Chan Chak Mo announced Thursday that under the government’s food safety bill, the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) would take full responsibility for the handling of suspected food safety violations. Chan, who spoke to reporters after a meeting between members of his committee and government representatives, said that […]
British rider Michael Rutter in a Honda 1000 dominated this year’s late running of the 46th Motorcycle Grand Prix, leading from the first lap to the tenth and making a eight wins record-breaking in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Macau. Due to poor weather the race was held over from Saturday to Sunday afternoon. […]
Portuguese motorcycle rider Luis Filipe de Sousa Carreira died Thursday after a crash at the Guia circuit during qualifying for the 46th Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix, racing officials said. The 35-year-old Carreira from Lisbon crashed yesterday afternoon at Fisherman’s Bend. No other riders were involved in the accident. Organisers said two doctors went to the […]
Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Wednesday while the government would continue to take the initiative to stabilise the housing market, it would not be reasonable to carry out any “too heavily” applied measures. Chui made the remark during a three-hour question-and-answer session in the Legislative Assembly (AL) about his 2013 Policy Address that […]
Macau’s 100 hotels and inns recorded 7.02 million guests in the first three quarters, a year-on-year increase of 11.5 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Wednesday. In September, the number of guests rose 11.9 percent year-on-year to 785,170. Guests’ average length of stay dropped by 0.18 of a night to 1.3 nights in […]
Kickboxing champion Cung Le let his fists do the talking for once with a devastating one-punch knockout of Rich Franklin in the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s first event in China on Sunday. Le’s win in the main event at Macau’s Venetian hotel takes him a step closer to a shot at the middleweight title but after […]
Secretary for Administration and Justice Florinda Chan Lai Man Sunday declined to give a clear answer on whether the city’s nearly 30,000 government employees will have their salaries and fringe benefits increased or not next year. She said the government was waiting for a report to be submitted from the government-appointed Civil Service Pay Review […]
Transport Bureau (DSAT) Deputy Director Chiang Ngoc Vai said Thursday that road congestion during this year’s Macau Grand Prix was expected to be more severe than in previous years, urging people to abandon their cars and catch the bus instead during the four-day motor-racing event. Chiang made the comments during a press conference by the […]