Macau, China, 25 Set – Macau logged 2.06 million visitor arrivals in August, an increase of 6.4 percent on the same month of last year, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) announced Thursday. Compared with the previous month, the number of arrivals was up 17.7 percent. August’s figure was the highest since March 2008, which […]
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Macau, China, 23 Sept – Macau Legislative Election General Auditing Committee announced Tuesday the official results of the election of the fourth Legislative Assembly of Macau, according to Xinhua news agency. The new legislature is composed of 29 seats including 12 directly-elected seats, 10 indirectly-elected seats, and seven others which will be appointed by the […]
Macau, China, 21 Sept – The Development Union (UPD) of the Macau Trade Unions Federation and the two groups of the grass-roots New Macau Association (NMA), headed by pro-democracy legislators Ng Kuok Cheong and Au Kam San respectively, are the big winners of yesterday’s direct legislative election, according to preliminary final figures released by the […]
Macau, China, 30 Sep – Backed by China’s central government, Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) has experienced a decade of progress and development, the SAR’s chief said on Tuesday. As the nation celebrates the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China this year, the SAR will also enter a new stage of development, said […]
Macau, China, 17 Sep – Macau Health Bureau (SSM) announced Wednesday another 142 new cases of swine flu raising the total number so far to 2,083, including one fatality. The Bureau said among the 142 new patients 73 were males and 69 females with age ranging from 9 months to 79 years old. According to […]
Zhuhai, China, 15 Sept – The Mayor of the Chinese municipality of Zhuhai, which borders Macau, said Monday that work had begun on making Hengqin Island into one of the three strategic new zones in China following Pudong in Shanghai and Binhai in Tianjin, according to Macauhub agency. Zhong Shijian said that Zhuhai planned to […]
Macau, China, 14 Sept – Thailand’s Thaworn Wiratchant claimed his 11th Asian Tour victory Sunday with a commanding six-shot triumph at the Macau Open. Thaworn charged home with a closing three-under-par for a four-day total of 15-under-par 269 to pip India’s rising star Gaganjeet Bhullar at the 500,000-dollar full-field event at the Macau Golf and […]
Macau, 14 Sept – Macau’s 86 hotels recorded 525,731 guests in July, an increase of 17.9 percent from the previous month, The Macau Post Daily reported yesterday, citing figures of the Macau Statistics and Census Service. However, the number of guests in July was down 10.5 percent compared with the same month last year. Mainlanders […]
Beijing, China, 13 Aug – China’s President Hu Jintao met Wednesday with Macau’s new Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On and expressed the central government’s trust and support to him, according to Xinhua news agency. "Macau is right now at a fresh historic starting point.As the new chief executive of the Macau Special Administration Region […]