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Macau Government plans to build 2,356 more public housing flats

Macau Government plans to build 2,356 more public housing flats

Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT)’s Urban Planning Department Chief Lao Iong said Thursday that the government later this year will start construction of 2,356 public housing flats on two plots that originally were a squatters’ area in Ilha Verde. Lao make the announcement during a press conference to detail the current progress of […]
HK property tycoon to stand trial in Macau

HK property tycoon to stand trial in Macau

Hong Kong property company Chinese Estates Holdings announced Wednesday that its chairman, Joseph Lau Luen-hung, will have to stand trial in Macau for alleged bribery and money laundering. The company made the “price-sensitive” announcement in a statement to The Hong Kong Stock Exchange late Wednesday. According to the statement cited by The Macau Post Daily […]
Visitor arrivals rise just 1.9 pct in April

Visitor arrivals rise just 1.9 pct in April

Macau’s number of visitor arrivals in April increased a mere 1.9 percent year-on-year to 2.38 million, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Wednesday. Month-to-month, the figure grew just 1.4 percent. Same-day visitor accounted for 62.8 percent of the total number. Visitors’ average length of stay stood at 1.1 days. Mainlanders accounted for 58.4 percent […]
Macau government plans covered bridge for 24-hour border crossing

Macau government plans covered bridge for 24-hour border crossing

The Macau government said Tuesday that it plans to build a 450-metre-long cross-border covered bridge over the Duck Channel that will connect Macau with Zhuhai’s Gongbei district next to the future Guangzhou–Zhuhai Intercity Mass Rapid Transit railway station. The government also said that the border crossing for pedestrians only was planned to operate around the […]
Visitors’ non-gaming spending reaches 13 billion patacas in Q1

Visitors’ non-gaming spending reaches 13 billion patacas in Q1

Macau’s visitors spent 13.1 billion patacas on non-gambling activities in the first quarter, up 35 percent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Tuesday. The figure was extrapolated from about 43,000 samples, according to a DSEC statement. While overnight visitors spent 10.6 billion patacas, an increase of 39 percent from a year earlier, same-day […]
HOS flats in Seac Pai Van sell from 488,000 patacas

HOS flats in Seac Pai Van sell from 488,000 patacas

The 1,824 subsidised home-ownership scheme (HOS) flats at the mammoth public housing estate in Coloane’s Seac Pai Van are priced from 488,000 patacas to 1,097,300 patacas, the government announced in the Official Gazette (BO) Monday. Housing Bureau (IH) President Tam Kuong Man said in a press conference at his bureau Monday that the price of […]
Eco-activists and residents urge Macau government to protect egrets´habitat

Eco-activists and residents urge Macau government to protect egrets´habitat

Three Macau environmental protection groups and a group of residents Sunday urged the government to find another location for its safety traffic information centre to protect the egrets’ habitat in the wetland next to the Taipa Houses-Museum. The Macau government  has announced that it plans to move the centre to a plot of land that […]
Macau policy secretary keeps mum on judicial bias claim

Macau policy secretary keeps mum on judicial bias claim

Secretary for Administration and Justice Florinda Chan Lai Man has kept mum on a claim by Macau’s top lawyer that local judges are biased in favour of the government. “No comment,” Chan said when asked by reporters about the issue on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of an activity hosted by the Macau Lawyers […]
Population rises to 562,900 in March

Population rises to 562,900 in March

Macau’s population rose 3.2 percent year-on-year to 562,900 at the end the first quarter, according to official statistics. The number of non-resident workers reached 98,664 at the end of March, up by 4,636 from the end of last year, accounting for 17.5 percent of the total population. According to The Macau Post Daily today, based […]
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