Macau, China, 22 Feb – Macau’s long-delayed light trail project got finally off the ground Tuesday and Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si I asked for residents’ understanding for any traffic snarl-ups and inconvenience caused. Construction for the Taipa-section of the Light Rapid Transit (LRT) system started, after 10 years of preparatory work,The […]
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Macau, China, 21 Feb – Macau’s record 28 million visitors spent a record 45.3 billion patacas – not including their gambling losses – last year, a year-on-year growth of 20 percent, The Macau Post Daily reports today, citing official data. Visitors’ non-gambling expenditure accounted for some 16.8 percent of what they spent on gambling last […]
Macau, China, 15 Fev – Secretary for Security Cheong Kuoc Va announced Tuesday a 7.4 percent increase in the number of reported crimes last year, including an 18.5 percent growth in violent crime such as extortion, robbery, murder, rape and sexual abuse of children. A total of four murders were reported in 2011, two more […]
Macau, China, 13 Feb – Cirque du Soleil’s Zaia show at Sands China Ltd.’s Venetian Macao resort will close after its performance on Feb. 19, 3 1/2 years into a 10-year contract, and the casino operator said last week it will redesign the theater. “Entertainment programming is an inexact science,” Ron Reese, vice president for […]
Macau, China, 10 Feb – A total of 43 civil servants were prosecuted last year, with wounding cases the most at 14, followed by 12 cases concerning traffic accidents and injury liability, Assistant Public Prosecutor General Vong Vai Va told The Macau Post Daily Thursday. Vong also revealed that the Public Prosecution Service (MP) handled […]
Macau, China, 6 Feb – THAI Smile Air, Thai Airways International (THAI)’s new sub-brand carrier, will start its first commercial flight from Bangkok to Macau on July 1. The airways’ maiden Macau route will operate two flights daily. Ticket sales are slated to begin in April. The Macau-Bangkok route’s initial passenger load is expected to […]
Macau, China, 2 Fev – Macau’s only member of the Standing Committee of National People Congress (NPCSC), Legislative Assembly Vice President Ho Iat Seng said Wednesday that it was “inappropriate” to have a discussion about universal suffrage in the election of the chief executive and legislators right now as the Macau Basic Law does not […]
Macau, China, 31 Jan – The Macau government so far has received over 1,000 opinions from the general public – out of a population of around 560,000 – about the city’s political development, Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) Director Jose Chu said Monday. According to The Macau Post Daily, Chu made the announcement […]
Macau, China, 26 Jan – Visitors from Asia accounted for 97.5 percent of Macau ’s record 28 million arrivals last year, according to official tourism statistics cited by The Macau Post Daily earlier this week. In 2010, Asians made up 97.2 percent of all visitor arrivals. While the total number of visitor arrivals rose 12.2 […]
Macau, China, 26 Jan -Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On has underlined the importance of showing solidarity with the elderly and vulnerable as well as all those who need society’s help. Chui made the appeal in his Chinese New Year speech that was released by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) on Lunar New Year’s […]
Macau, China, 26 Jan -Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On has underlined the importance of showing solidarity with the elderly and vulnerable as well as all those who need society’s help. Chui made the appeal in his Chinese New Year speech that was released by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) on Lunar New Year’s […]
Education will be one of the key areas that the Office of the European Union to Hong Kong and Macau is looking to push to further develop traditionally “strong and warm” co-operative ties between the bloc and Macau, particularly as an increasing number of universities in continental Europe are also offering courses in English. Vincent […]