Born and bred in Macao, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes has been Director of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) since December 2012, fluent in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Portuguese.
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For the first time a giant panda gave birth in Macau – and it was double happiness on Sunday as not just one cub but twins were born – and both were locally conceived. The “lovely giant panda twins” were born to eight-year-old Sam Sam and her mate Hoi Hoi, who is seven years old, […]
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said on Sunday that he estimated the budget for the city’s Wushu Grand Gathering to range between 10 million and 20 million patacas, adding that the exact figure will be announced by the Sports Bureau (ID) in the near future. Tam made the remarks on […]
The impact of Great Britain’s referendum to leave the European Union (EU) will have a “relatively limited” impact on Macau, a statement by the office of Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac predicts. According to the statement issued on Friday, Leong held a meeting with the Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) on Friday […]
The government will establish a company to replace the Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT) next year, lawmaker Ho Ion Sang, who heads the legislature’s Follow-up Committee for Land and Public Concession Affairs, told reporters on Thursday, adding that the firm will be fully owned by the government. The office, which is responsible for the construction and […]
Authorities have ordered a three-day suspension of the sale of live poultry in Macau, culling 8,000 chickens and 1,000 pigeons on Thursday night, after an environmental sample taken last Thursday from the Iao Hon market has tested positive from a string of the H7 avian flu virus. “Following the positive result, the government activated its […]
Visitors’ arrivals totalled 2,477,591 in May, up slightly by 0.3 per cent month-to-month and yet down by 2.8 per cent year-on-year, according to the information released by the Statistics and Census Service on Thursday. Same-day visitors dropped by 8.3 per cent year-on-year to 1,272,242, while overnight visitors rose by 3.8 per cent to 1,205,349. Visitors […]
Consumer prices in Macau in May continued to slow, with year on year inflation at a rate of 1.64 per cent, or 38 basis points less than in April, said the region’s Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC). A chart provided by DSEC in the statement on May’s CPI shows that the general index has been […]
The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) has rejected Moon Ocean Ltd’s request to annul a 2012 administrative order by Chief Executive Chui Sai On which invalidated the company’s provisional leaseholds of five plots of land where the aborted La Scala residential project is located, according to a statement issued by the court on Wednesday. Chui’s […]
