Macau, China, 13 Dec – The Health Bureau (SSM) said Monday that the government-drafted tobacco tax bill suggests to increase the tax from four to 10 patacas for a packet of 20 cigarettes, a growth of 150 percent, according to The Macau Post Daily today. The bureau’s vice director, Cheang Seng Ip, made the revelation […]
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Macau, China, 12 Dec – Portuguese and English-language journalists called for self-regulation Monday, including the creation of an ethics code during the first Macau Journalists Congress held in Macau. According to today’s Macau Daily Times the improvement of the government spokesperson system was one of other requests made during the two days meeting.The event held […]
Macau, China, 9 Dec – Maritime Administration (CP) Director Susana Wong Soi Man said this week that the government for the whole of this year expects to pay 170 million patacas for raw water imported from Guangdong and 80 million patacas on local customers’ water bill subsidy. According to The Macau Post Daily today, Wong, […]
Macau, Chin,a 7 Dec – Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Tuesday that his government would continue to respect the freedom of the press and support the local media. He made the pledge to the media after visiting the Museum of the Holy House of Mercy’s new exhibition hall, The Macau Post Daily reports […]
Macau, China, 7 Dec – The government of Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) will build an additional 3,850 public housing units next year, Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si Io said this week. According to Xinhua, Lau, who made the remark during a plenary meeting of the Legislative Assembly (AL) on Monday, said […]
Macau,China,5 Dec – Some 64 percent of people who have AIDS in Macau have contracted the disease through unprotected sex, followed by drug abuse, which accounts for 27 percent of local AIDS suffers, Macau Aids Care Association President Maria Fatima Tse told The Macau Post Daily Sunday. The association organised a play and poster competition […]
Macau, China, 29 Nov – Macau and Shenzhen inked three co-operation agreements Monday in the areas of creative industries, tourism and investment incentives, The Macau Post Daily reports today. The pacts were signed by representatives from the two governments after their annual co-operation meeting that this time was held in Macau . The half-day meeting […]
Only about 40 percent of 959 young and middle-aged respondents said that they were very satisfied or satisfied with Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On’s 2013 Policy Address, according to a survey released Wednesday. The survey also found that about 52 percent of the respondents said that the “welfare measures” stated in Chui’s policy guidelines […]
Macau, CHina, 28 Nov – Among the respondents who choose to use Macau ’s public health services for medical treatment, only 6.34 percent thought that local public health facilities are able to “provide a professional medical service”, according to the findings of a survey cited by The Macau Post Daily today. The survey, aimed at […]
Macau, China, 24 Nov – Macau recorded 23 million visitor arrivals in the first 10 months of this year, an increase of 11.4 percent from the same period of last year, according to official statistics. In October, the number of visitor arrivals rose 13.6 percent year-on-year to 2.37 million. Same-day visitors accounted for 56.1 percent […]
Macau, China, 22 Nov – The government said Monday it expects to collect 85 billion patacas (US$ 10.625 billion) in direct gaming taxes next year, based on an estimation of gross casino gaming revenue standing on average at 20 billion patacas a month – or 240 billion patacas (US$30 billion) in 2012, The Macau Post […]
Macau, China, 21 Nov – The “final” construction cost of the University of Macau ’s new campus in Zhuhai’s Hengqin Island will amount to 9.8 billion patacas (US$ 1.225 billion), 50.8 percent more than originally planned, Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si Io revealed during a visit to the project site on Friday, […]