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Inflation slows to 5.99 pct in June

Inflation slows to 5.99 pct in June

Macau’s composite consumer price index (CPI) rose 5.99 percent year-on-year last month, slowing down a bit from May’s 6.16 percent increase, according to data released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) Monday. A DSEC statement attributed last month’s inflation pressure namely to higher housing rents and the higher cost of eating out. Last month […]
Commander of PLA Macau Garrison changed

Commander of PLA Macau Garrison changed

Colonel Wen Yufa, spokesman of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Macau Garrison, announced,  that  Major General Zhu Qingsheng, commander of the PLA Macau Garrison, was appointed as the director of the Armaments Department of the PLA Guangzhou Military Area Command (MAC). Senior Colonel Wang Wen will succeed him as commander of the PLA Macau […]
Top lawyer says doesn’t intend to run for CE

Top lawyer says doesn’t intend to run for CE

Macau Lawyers Association (AAM) President Jorge Neto Valente said Monday that he had no intention of running in next month’s chief executive (CE) election. He confirmed, however, that he had nominated a candidate for the CE election without further elaboration. He made the remarks in a phone interview with The Macau Post Daily yesterday after […]
Think tank says co-op between govt, civic groups ‘important’

Think tank says co-op between govt, civic groups ‘important’

Macau Development Strategy Research Centre (CPEDM) President Lionel Leong Vai Tac said Sunday that the government’s co-operation with civic associations was important to Macau’s development, adding that there was a need for administrative reform. Leong made the remarks on the sidelines of the think tank’s annual conference in which civic leaders in various fields were […]
Officials clamp down on stagnant water to fight dengue

Officials clamp down on stagnant water to fight dengue

The government has started a survey to collect data about breeding sites for Aedes aegypti, the dengue fever carrying mosquito, and warned that a number of public areas in residential buildings have been found to contain stagnant water, which is the main breeding site for the insect. Lam Chong, a doctor who heads the Health […]
Hotel guests drop 4 pct in June

Hotel guests drop 4 pct in June

The number of hotel guests dropped four percent year-on-year to 863,000 in June, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Wednesday. Some 59 percent of all guests stayed at 5-star hotels. Guests’ average length of stay remained unchanged at just 1.3 nights. The average occupancy rate of hotels and guesthouses rose four percentage points year-on-year […]
Macau and Zhongshan to establish ‘co-operation pilot zone’

Macau and Zhongshan to establish ‘co-operation pilot zone’

The Macau government Wednesday signed a framework agreement with Zhongshan city to establish the “Guangdong-Macau Co-operation Pilot Zone” in Cuiheng district, Guangdong province. The signing ceremony took place after the annual joint meeting of co-operation between Guangdong and Macau, which was held in the Four Seasons Hotel Macau in Cotai. The agreement was signed by […]
Macau’s forex reserves reach $15.76 bln in June

Macau’s forex reserves reach $15.76 bln in June

The preliminary estimate of the Macau Special Administrative Region’s foreign exchange reserves reached to 125.9 billion patacas (15.76 billion U.S. dollars) at the end of June 2014, according to the figures released on Tuesday by the Monetary Authority of Macao. The reserves for June increased by 2.6 percent over the revised value of 122.7 billion […]
Chui’s manifesto focuses on people’s livelihood

Chui’s manifesto focuses on people’s livelihood

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said in his re-election manifesto Tuesday that he will give “priority to issues concerning people’s livelihoods, such as housing, transport, environmental protection, social security and human resources.” The 57-year-old public health expert made the pledge during a press conference about his re-election bid at the Macau World Trade Centre […]
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