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Mobile app design contest looks for innovation in ICT

Mobile app design contest looks for innovation in ICT

A mobile app design contest jointly organised by the government and the city’s main telecom operator aims to stimulate creativity among the local ICT profession and create potential business opportunities. Telecommunications Regulation Bureau (DSRT) representative Leong Tek Ian told a press conference held at the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Centre (CPTTM) in Zape that […]
Govt takes back last graft-tainted La Scala plots

Govt takes back last graft-tainted La Scala plots

The government said Wednesday that it had taken eight plots of land from Hong Kong-based Chinese Estates Holdings’ Moon Ocean property development company near the local airport because of the project’s alleged involvement in a corruption scandal. The government formalised the repossession of the plots in an announcement published in the Official Gazette (BO) Wednesday. […]
Hotel guests rise 7.5 pct in February

Hotel guests rise 7.5 pct in February

Boosted by the Chinese New Year holiday, Macau’s hospitality industry recorded 774,965 guests in February, an increase of 7.5 percent on the same month of last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Tuesday. February’s number of hotel guests exceeded the local population, which stood at 582,000 at the end of last year, by […]
Govt fines Venetian 40,000 patacas for transferring data to US

Govt fines Venetian 40,000 patacas for transferring data to US

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 […]
Prices paid by tourists rise 7.9 pct in Q1

Prices paid by tourists rise 7.9 pct in Q1

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 […]
7 million visitors in Q1, up only 1.9 pct

7 million visitors in Q1, up only 1.9 pct

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 […]
Tam vows to co-ordinate bureaus on smoking ban in casinos

Tam vows to co-ordinate bureaus on smoking ban in casinos

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 […]
Tourism chief cautions locals over travel to eastern regions

Tourism chief cautions locals over travel to eastern regions

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 […]
Smoking areas in 28 of 44 gaming venues fail air quality tests

Smoking areas in 28 of 44 gaming venues fail air quality tests

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 […]
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