Macau, China, 24 Mar – The Macau Judiciary Police (PJ) announced Tuesday the arrest of a man for his alleged involvement in online extortion and threats all carried out in an online forum over a roughly two-year period. According to The Macau Post Daily the man threats to put bombs at government buildings and to […]
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Macau, China, 24 Mar – Macau received in the first two months of this year 4.10 million visitors, a year-on-year growth of 15 percent, according to the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). In February Macau received 2.05 million visitors, up 24.4 percent on the same month of last year, announced the DSEC. Same-day visitors accounted […]
Macau, China, 23 Mar – Air pollution in Macau soared to record levels as officials warned Monday of a public health menace from a toxic stew of particulates, fuelled by a massive sandstorm over northern swathes of the mainland, including Beijing. The Macau Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement that the local air quality […]
Macau, China, 22 Mar – Some 42.6 percent of interviewees in a survey have labelled Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On’s 2020 Policy Address as "so-so", while 14.4 percent expressed "dissatisfaction" with it, Chu Ceng Chong, a data analyst at the Macau General Neighbourhood Unions Association (UGAMM), said Sunday. According to The Macau Post Daily, […]
Macau, China, 18 Mar – Macau’s Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On admitted Wednesday that it was possible to establish Macau as a learning centre for Portuguese, Putonghua and English. Chui was replying to indirectly elected legislator Leonel Alberto Alves that urged the chief executive to establish Macau as an international language training centre, namely […]
Macau, China, 18 Mar – Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) launched a joint promotion in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore last week to boost multi-destination itineraries covering Macau, Zhuhai and Zhongshan. In a first ever joint event in Southeast Asian markets a delegation of over 20 tourism officials and travel trade representatives from Macau, Zhongshan and […]
Macau, China, 17 Mar – Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On announced in his first policy address Tuesday that Macau will set up a "formal communication mechanism" with Taiwan. The chief executive announced that his government will set up "all types of contacts and cooperation" with Taiwan and provide Macau residents working and studying in […]
Macau, China, 17 Mar – Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On promised Tuesday that the government will "control the scope and development pace of the gaming industry." Chui said that the government wants that the gaming industry contribute to the sustainable development of other economic activities. The chief executive during his policy address in the […]
Macau, China, 16 March – The governments of Guangdong and Macau by the end of the year plan to draw up a framework agreement for bilateral cooperation and then try to get it included in the 12th Five-Year State Plan, government spokesperson, Alexis Tam said Monday. Tam added that the two sides had set up […]
Beijing, China, 11 Mar -Former Macau Chief Executive Edmund Ho Hau Wah received Wednesday 299 votes of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) to become the only nominee for the post of CPPCC vice-chairman, according with The Macau Post Daily. The CPPCC currently has 2,241 members and 25 vice-chairpersons. The […]
Beijing, China, 8 Mar – China’s Vice President Xi Jinping said Sunday that Macau needed to adjust, control and monitor the gaming industry in order to ensure its orderly development, according to The Macau Post Daily today. The paper said, quoting Ho Iat Seng, a Macau member of the Standing Committee of the National People’s […]
Beijing, China, 8 Mar -Macau deputy to the National People’s Conference (NPC) Lionel Leong Vai Tac has called for Macau’s role as a business service platform for trade ties between China and the Portuguese-speaking world to be enshrined in the central government’s 12th five-year plan that is currently being drafted by the annual plenary session […]