The Personal Data Protection Office (GPDP) Monday slammed the Venetian Macau for transferring data to the United States for its “own interests”, fining the gaming operator 40,000 patacas. The amount consists of two fines of 20,000 patacas each. The bureau said in a statement that investigations into whether the Venetian had violated Macau’s Personal Data […]
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Macau’s tourist price index (TPI) rose 7.90 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement Monday. The statement blamed the Chinese New Year holiday period for the steep hike which it mainly attributed to higher hotel rates and restaurant prices. However, the index also recorded “notable” increase […]
Macau recorded 7.07 million visitor arrivals in the first quarter, an increase of just 1.9 percent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Tuesday. Mainlanders, Hongkongers and Guangdong residents – Macau’s top three visitor segments – accounted for 62.4 percent, 24.4 percent and 18.4 percent of all arrivals respectively. Some 44.2 percent of all […]
Secretary for Economy and Finance Francis Tam Pak Yuen told reporters Thursday that the Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau (DICJ) will fully co-ordinate with the Health Bureau (SSM) in implementing the government’s tobacco control policy in local casinos and slot-machine parlours. Tam made the comments after attending the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition marking […]
No travel alert will be issued just yet amid the mainland’s H7N9 virus crisis and tensions in the Korean peninsula, Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said Wednesday, but she urged locals to be “cautious” when they decide to travel to the nation’s eastern regions where the virus was first […]
Air quality in the smoking areas of 28 out of 44 gaming venues in the first two months of this year failed in the government’s assessment of the concentration levels of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, PM2.5, PM10, volatile organic compound and benzo[a]pyrene in the venues, the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement Wednesday. It […]
Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) Acting Deputy Director Leong Ka Cheng said Tuesday the city could experience four to six tropical cyclones this year, with one to two of them possibly becoming signal No. 8 typhoons. Leong made the forecast while speaking to reporters after attending a meeting on civil defence operations held at the […]
The annual Labour Day concert organised by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) is being moved from the usual Macau Forum indoor venue to Hac Sa Beach in Coloane, with Taiwanese singer-actor Richie Jen Hsien-chi headlining the gig, the bureau’s administration committee member Henry Ma Kam Keong said Tuesday. Ma told a press conference […]
Macau, Hong Kong and mainland officials decided during a weekend meeting in Zhuhai to step up surveillance of live poultry and poultry products bound for Hong Kong and Macau, by increasing the sample size and frequency of farm inspections, The Macau Post Daily reports today. Macau and Hong Kong officials met representatives of the central […]