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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Health Bureau (SSM) says in a statement it estimates that the city’s gaming revenue would be reduced by up to 4.6 percent if a blanket ban on smoking in all gaming venues was implemented, adding that it had taken a preliminary assessment conducted by the Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau (DICJ) as a reference. […]
Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said on Thursday that her office would come up with a new subsidy scheme to help travel agencies attract more visitors to stay overnight. However, she denied a claim that the government was considering to pay a subsidy to tourists choosing to stay overnight. […]