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Tourist Guide Association President wants grading system for tourist guides

Tourist Guide Association President wants grading system for tourist guides

A grading system to categorise the level of expertise of locally licensed tourist guides is needed, Macau Tourist Guide Association President Angelina Wu Wai Fong said Monday, explaining that such a measure would encourage further training and improve service quality. Wu spoke to reporters after the opening ceremony of the 15th International Convention of the […]
Police bust prostitution ring involving hotel executives

Police bust prostitution ring involving hotel executives

The Judiciary Police (PJ) have busted the largest prostitution ring in Macau since the 1999 handover, nabbing six suspects, including senior hotel executives, for their alleged involvement. The arrests, which were made on Saturday evening, were announced on Sunday. According to a special press conference last night, the six suspects comprise a 68-year-old local male […]
Macau, Zhuhai police bust drug ring, nab 37

Macau, Zhuhai police bust drug ring, nab 37

The Judiciary Police (PJ) picked up 30 suspects for drug-related crimes on Thursday while Zhuhai police arrested seven suspected kingpins, which supplied the local suspects with drugs. A PJ spokesperson said at a press conference on Friday that the 30 people caught in Macau included locals, Hongkongers and mainlanders aged between 19 and 60. Their […]
Police, financial regulator bust ‘underground bank’

Police, financial regulator bust ‘underground bank’

The Judiciary Police (PJ) and the Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) announced on Thursday in a joint press conference that they busted an “underground bank” in Areia Preta where two male mainlanders, a 26-year-old surnamed Wang and a 30-year-old surnamed Lu, were arrested for their alleged involvement in the illegal financial operation. PJ spokesman Suen Kam […]
Political issues are local’s least concern: HKU poll

Political issues are local’s least concern: HKU poll

The findings of an annual survey about Macau conducted by the Public Opinion Programme (POP) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and released on its website yesterday show that – using a one-in-three choice method – political issues were of least concern to local residents, coming after economic and livelihood problems. The findings show […]
Forum office to get new coordinator

Forum office to get new coordinator

The Supporting Office to the Permanent Secretariat to the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries will get a new coordinator and assistant secretary-general in March. Rita Santos, who simultaneously holds both positions, confirmed in a letter to the media yesterday that she will retire from the civil service on March […]
Macau Chief Executive calls for cooperation with Zhongshan, Guangdong

Macau Chief Executive calls for cooperation with Zhongshan, Guangdong

Macau’s Chief executive Chui Sai On, called for cooperation with the Chinese city of Zhongshan, in Guangdong province, as a priority in two-way relations, according to a statement from the Government Information Bureau. Following a meeting with officials from Zhongshan municipality, Chui said regional cooperation had been addressed with the central government and that work, […]
Macau government wants to raise social security dues

Macau government wants to raise social security dues

Social Security Fund (FSS) President Ip Peng Kin said on Wednesday that the government was proposing to increase the social security dues paid by the city’s employers and employees from the current 45 patacas to 90 patacas a month. Ip also said that once the proposed amount is agreed upon in the government-appointed Standing Council […]
Airport passengers rise 9 percent in 2014

Airport passengers rise 9 percent in 2014

Macau’s airport logged a record 5.48 million passengers last year, an increase of nine percent from 2013, owner-cum-operator CAM has announced. The single-runway airport handled a daily average of about 15,000 passengers last year. August saw the highest monthly number of passengers last year, at 528,919. August also produced the highest monthly passenger figure since […]
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