The government announced Monday the setting-up of a high-powered council to tackle “sudden incidents.” The establishment of the council was published in the Official Gazette (BO) in the form of an executive order signed by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On. While the council’s Chinese name refers to “sudden” incidents, its Portuguese name means “unforeseen” […]
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Most of the representatives from the business sector Monday backed the government’s idea of importing professionals through a point-based system, but also suggested encouraging locals studying overseas to return to Macau to serve the city whose population is forecast by the government to reach 802,000, of which up to 200,000 would be imported workers, in […]
The 2012 Kumpoo Macau Open Badminton Grand Prix Gold, officially sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF), will be held at the Macau Forum from November 27 to December 2. Kumpoo is a Japanese manufacturer of badminton equipment. It is the seventh year that the Badminton Federation of Macau has hosted the event, one of […]
The Macau roller hockey men’s squad Wednesday won the Asian Championship title for the fifth straight time, defeating India 6-3 in the final match. The Macau team won all their matches in the tournament, held in the Chinese city of Hefei, Anhui province. Macau beat the Australia, Taiwan and India. With this victory, Macau reached […]
Macau New Vision Association (ANVM) President Li Lue and Vice President Lou Shenghua said Monday that 91.6 percent of local residents would like the government to continue its annual wealth-share scheme. They were referring to the results of a survey they conducted on October 18 and 19 regarding matters that locals care about the most. […]
About 250,000 people out of 300,000 of those eligible have registered to vote in the 2013 legislative elections, Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) Director José Chu said Sunday, urging citizens to register before they miss out on their right to vote. Chu told reporters during his bureau’s voter registration drive that there are […]
The Macau and Zhuhai governments Thursday reached a consensus on a two-hour extension of the operating hours of the Cotai-Hengqin border crossing for both goods and people, suggesting extending the current operating hours from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to the later closing time of 10 p.m. Both governments said they hoped the new customs […]
Macau recorded 2.16 million visitor arrivals last month, a decline of 0.2 percent from the same month last year, according to official statistics cited by The Macau Post Daily today. Month-on-month, September’s number of visitor arrivals was down 19.4 percent. Same-day visitors accounted for 50.1 percent of all visitor arrivals last month. Visitors’ average length […]
As veteran Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Joao Manuel Costa Antunes will step down in December after 24 years at the helm of the office, his anointed successor, MGTO Deputy Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said Wednesday her main tasks would be to continue the office’s work of attracting more tourists to Macau, […]