Macau, China, 27 May -Macau’s hotels, restaurants and similar businesses employed 53,921 people at the end of March, accounting for 16.1 percent of Macau ’s total workforce, according to figures released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) Thursday. While 36,163 people were employed by the hospitality industry, 18,758 worked in restaurants. The […]
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Macau, China, 26 May -A Portuguese lawyer was attacked Wednesday by a young man who threw corrosive liquid over him burning about a tenth of his body, informed sources told The Macau Post Daily. The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement that it has launched an investigation into the case. The Judiciary Police said […]
Macau, China, 25 May – An audit report released Tuesday found that the government’s Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT) spent 260 million patacas on the core service and construction contracts for the Macau light rail project, which were not included in the publicly announced 7.5 billion patacas (US$ 930 million) budget, which itself already has overrun. […]
Macau, China, 24 May – Macau logged 8.77 million visitor arrivals in the first four months of this year, up 6.6 percent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Monday. Mainlanders and Hong Kong citizens accounted for 56.4 percent and 28.4 percent of all visitor arrivals between January and April, respectively. The number […]
Lausanne, Switzerland, 18 May – The International Gymnastics Federation(FIG) has suspended Macau and 10 other countries for failing to pay dues to the sport’s ruling body. The governing body said the 11 are Cyprus, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Macau, Macedonia, Paraguay, Seychelles, Syria, Tajikistan, and Yemen. FIG rules bar the countries from organizing or competing in […]
Macau, China, 17 May – The number of noise complaints received by the Public Security Police (PSP) rose 13.9 percent year-on-year to 4,435 cases last year, just 59.9 percent of which resulted in an official warning, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced in a summary of its 2010 environmental statistics Monday. According to the […]
Macau, China, 16 May – Hong Kong-listed Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) held a grand opening ceremony on Sunday for its US$1.9 billion hotel resort in Macau’s Cotai Strip, focusing on Asian visitors. Themed ‘World Class, Asian Heart’, the 550,000-square-meter Southeast Asian-style Galaxy Macau mega-resort comprises three hotel brands, namely Galaxy Hotel , Singapore ‘s […]
Macau, China, 16 May – Macau’s hospitality industry recorded 1.92 million guests in the first quarter, up 1.9 percent on the same period of last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. Hotels’ average guestroom occupancy rate stood at 81 percent in the first three month, up 1.9 percent year-on-year. Hotel guests accounted […]
Macau, CHina, 13 May – Secretary for Economy and Finance Francis Tam Pak Yuen said Thursday that the government would start paying out its one-off extra “cash handout” from August or September. Tam made the remark after a meeting of the government’s Non-resident Workers Employment Concern Commission, which comes under the Social Affairs Co-ordination Standing […]