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Taiwan’s Mandarin Airline open Taichung- Macau flights

Taiwan’s Mandarin Airline open Taichung- Macau flights

Taipei-based Mandarin Airlines began Saturday to offer regular flights between the central Taiwan city of Taichung and Macau. The new service provides seven round-trip flights per week, with a 90-minute one-way flight, according to the carrier. Taichung Deputy Mayor Tsai Ping-kun and Nantou Magistrate Lee Chao-ching attended a ceremony to mark the new service, in […]
Tourists pay over 10 pct more in 1st quarter

Tourists pay over 10 pct more in 1st quarter

Macau’s official tourist price index (TPI) rose 10.15 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, The Macau Post Daily reports today, citing officials stastistics. The DSEC announcement attributed the steep increase to higher restaurant prices, hotel room rates and entertainment prices during the Lunar New Year holiday period (in late January) and higher prices of gold […]
Goverment sold Taipa land to HK firm for 1.36 billion patacas

Goverment sold Taipa land to HK firm for 1.36 billion patacas

The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) heard Wednesday that it was the government’s then secretary for transport and public works Ao Man Long who had decided to sell five plots of land totalling 79,000 square metres opposite the airport in Taipa to a company headed by Hong Kong real estate tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-hung for […]
Ponte 16 inks HK$1.9 billion, 400 million yuan loan

Ponte 16 inks HK$1.9 billion, 400 million yuan loan

Pier 16 –Property Development Ltd., the owner of the Ponte 16 casino-hotel in Macau, announced in a statement Tuesday the signing of HK$1.9 billion and 400 million yuan 5-year syndicated loan facilities with 11 banks. According to the statement cited by The Macau Post Daily today, ICBC (Macau) Ltd. is the mandated lead arranger and […]
Hong Kong tycoon denies bribery claim in Ao Man-long case

Hong Kong tycoon denies bribery claim in Ao Man-long case

Chinese Estates Holdings chairman Joseph Lau Luen-hung Tuesday denied bribing ex- Macau official Ao Man-long, according to the Hong Kong media today. In a filing to the Hong Kong bourse, Lau said he had not given Macau’s former secretary for transport and public works “an unlawful advancement or bribe.” Macau’s Court of Final Appeal alleged […]
Hotel occupancy rate reaches 82.3 pct in Jan-Feb

Hotel occupancy rate reaches 82.3 pct in Jan-Feb

Macau’s hospitality industry logged an average occupancy rate of 82.3 percent in the first two months this year, up 1.6 percent from a year earlier, according to official statistics. The number of guests rose 14.4 percent year-on-year to 1.42 million between January and February. Hotel guests accounted for 30.9 percent of all visitor arrivals in […]
Nearly 1/4 of Macau’s population speaks English

Nearly 1/4 of Macau’s population speaks English

Nearly a quarter of Macau’s population uses English as their first or second language, according to the preliminary results of the 2011 Census released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC). According to the findings, 2.3 percent of the population aged at least three years uses English as their first language, up from just 0.7 […]
Macau government to hand out cash ahead of Labour Day

Macau government to hand out cash ahead of Labour Day

The government will start paying residents its annual “wealth-share” handout before May Day, Executive Council (ExCo) spokesman Leong Heng Teng announced Thursday. Residents who are regular recipients of government subsidies and grants will have their handout credited to their bank account on April 24, the sixth time since 2008, while the majority of the population […]
“Guangdong Macau Week” kicks off in Guangzhou

“Guangdong Macau Week” kicks off in Guangzhou

Macau Chief Executive Chui Sai On and Governor of Guangdong province Zhu Xiaodan officiated at the opening ceremony of the “Guangdong Macau Week” held in Guangzhou,Thursday. Jointly hosted by the Macau Special Administrative Region Government and the People’s Government of Guangdong Province and co-organized by the Macau Government Tourist Office and Tourism Administration of Guangdong […]
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