The government has granted China Construction and Engineering (Macau) Company Limited the contract for the construction of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) depot in Cotai, for 1.07 billion patacas, according to Monday’s Official Gazette (BO). Earlier this year, the government said it had terminated the construction contract with the depot’s original contractor. The government said […]
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A casino pit manager and three junket workers have been detained for using a pack of apparently tampered-with cards in a baccarat game and managed to cheat a VIP room out of HK$24 million in just 30 minutes of gambling. The Judiciary Police (PJ) held a special press conference on Monday during which PJ spokesman […]
Paula Cristina Pereira Carion is a translator for the MSAR’s Public Prosecutions Office and a former karate-do fighter in Macao and abroad. She is fluent in Cantonese, English, Portuguese and Mandarin and retains dual citizenship with Canada, having once been a resident for four years.
The Macau International Airport (MIA) set a new record in August as it reached over the 630,000-passenger traffic and the 5,000 aircraft movement marks for the first time. A statement released by the Macau International Airport Company Limited (CAM) indicated that last month recorded the highest single month of passenger traffic and aircraft movement, gaining 10 per cent and […]
Admitting that several Indian tourists’ recent complaints about alleged discrimination by local immigration officers have affected Macau’s image to a certain extent, Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes pledged on Sunday that her office will strengthen communication with Indian tourists in the future. Senna Fernandes made the remarks on the […]
A Peruvian man was detained at the airport on Saturday for smuggling 1.6 kilogrammes of liquid cocaine worth about 10 million patacas. A Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said it was the first time that the local police were able to nab a drug mule trying to smuggle liquid cocaine to Macau. The spokesperson said the […]
Macau was visited by 20.44 million people in the period from January to August, similar to the number in the same period of 2015, the region’s Statistics and Census Bureau said on Friday. The number of visitors from mainland China (13.56 million) and Hong Kong (4.26 million) fell 0.6 per cent and 2.6 per cent, […]
The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) fails to properly maintain and make the necessary repairs to the city’s public parks and recreational areas so that many of them are in a bad state which can be a safety and health danger to its users and is detrimental to Macau’s image, the Commission of Audit […]
The Unitary Police Service (SPU) briefed the media on Thursday about the police’s two-month Thunderbolt 16 operation to combat crime, primarily in night entertainment venues, that started in July and finished on Wednesday. A special press conference was held on the SPU’s premises in Nam Van to announce the results of the anti-crime sweep. According […]