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Macau balance of trade deficit totals US$6.2 billion from January to August

Macau balance of trade deficit totals US$6.2 billion from January to August

The Macau balance of trade recorded a deficit of 49.36 billion patacas between January and August, an improvement of 3.2 percent over the deficit recorded in the same period of 2014, of 51 billion patacas, reported the region’s Statistics and Census Bureau. In the first eight months of 2015 Macau exported goods worth 7.291 billion […]
Group holds vigil to push for axing of dog races

Group holds vigil to push for axing of dog races

About 100 people attended a candlelight vigil held by the Macau Society for the Protection of Animals (ANIMA) near Nam Van Lake opposite Government Headquarters last night, urging to government to terminate greyhound racing in Macau. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the event, ANIMA President Albano Martins said dog racing should stop in […]
Group holds vigil to push for axing of dog races

Group holds vigil to push for axing of dog races

About 100 people attended a candlelight vigil held by the Macau Society for the Protection of Animals (ANIMA) near Nam Van Lake opposite Government Headquarters last night, urging to government to terminate greyhound racing in Macau. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the event, ANIMA President Albano Martins said dog racing should stop in […]
Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute to take over MICE support

Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute to take over MICE support

Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) Acting President Irene Lau Kuan Va said on Tuesday that her institute will be taking over the support for the city’s MICE sector from the Macau Economic Bureau (DSE) in November. Lau said the government hoped to make its support for the MICE sector more efficient through the […]
Police predict 5 percent rise in ‘Golden Week’ border crossings

Police predict 5 percent rise in ‘Golden Week’ border crossings

The Public Security Police (PSP) predicted a five percent year-on-year increase in the number of locals and visitors passing through Macau’s border checkpoints during the National Day “Golden Week” which starts tomorrow, PSP spokesman Lei Tak Fai said on Tuesday. According to a PSP statement, nearly three million border crossings were recorded during the same […]
Centaline sees no further drop in housing prices

Centaline sees no further drop in housing prices

Sales and rental prices for shop units and office and industrial building spaces have continued to drop but housing prices will not go further down with prices returning to the level they were at the start of the year, Centaline (Macau) Property Agency Director Jacky Shek Pou Tak predicted on Tuesday. Shek made the forecast […]
Macau asks Beijing to let it manage coastal waters

Macau asks Beijing to let it manage coastal waters

The Macau government has lodged a formal application with the central government on the management of Macau’s “customary” coastal waters, Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said on Monday. Chui spoke to reporters at the airport before heading to Zhoushan city in Zhejiang province for a two-day working visit along with senior officials including Secretary […]
Macau visitors up 14.5 percent in August

Macau visitors up 14.5 percent in August

Macau received around 3.03 million visitors in August, representing a 14.5 percent increase from July, but still witnessed a 3.8 percent year-on-year decline, according to data released by the Statistics and Census Service on Monday. According to the statistics agency, tourists from the Chinese mainland account for over 60 percent of the total, showing a […]
Macau government to strengthen taxi crackdown during Golden Week

Macau government to strengthen taxi crackdown during Golden Week

The Transport Bureau (DSAT) said in a statement on Monday that it will strengthen its ongoing crackdown on rogue cabbies during the National Day Golden Week holiday which beginson Thursday. The statement said the bureau was expecting an influx of mainland visitors during the mainland’s National Day holiday on October 1-4. The bureau said that […]
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