Macau,China, 12 Sept – Secretary for Economy and Finance Francis Tam Pak Yuen and Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si Io move out of Government House today and start working in the China Bank Building , according to a joint statement from both policy secretaries’ offices on Saturday. According to the statement, the […]
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Macau, China, 12 Sept -The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced Sunday the arrest of a traveler from Uganda at Macau International Airport for smuggling 1,245.5 grammes of heroin in 66 capsules filled with the drug he had swallowed, with officers estimating the narcotics to have a street value of 1.3 million patacas, The Macau Post Daily […]
Macau, China, 8 Sept – The Macau economy is expected to see growth of 20 percent in 2011 and 15 percent in 2012, years in which investment is expected to start rising once again after falling sharply in 2009 and 2010, according to the latest report from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), according to Macauhub […]
Macau, China, 11 Jan – Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Sunday encouraged the Macau government and its people to tackle the impact of the global financial crisis by diversifying the economy. “The Macau Government has implemented a string of effective measures to deal with the difficulties and overcome the difficulties with one heart”, he […]
Macau, China, 31 Aug – The growth of Macau ’s gross domestic product (GDP) quickened to 24 percent year-on-year in real terms in the second quarter, after rising 21.6 percent in the previous quarter, The Macau Post Daily reports today, citing data released by the Statistics and Census Bureau yesterday. For the first half of […]
Macau, China, 31 Aug – The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced Tuesday its first ever seizure of drugs sent by airmail – blotting paper soaked in LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) and fashioned to look like stamps according with The Macau Post Daily today. The envelope was sent from Malaysia using the equivalent of Macau’s Speed Post […]
Macau, China, 29 Ago – Macau Court of Final Appeal (TUI) judge Chu Kin was seriously injured in a car accident in Taishan city in Guangdong province last week, an informed source told The Macau Post Daily.Taishan lies some 100 kilometres north-west of Macau. “He had the accident while he was away on holiday. He […]
Macau, China, 23 Ago – Macau’s Composite Consumer Price Index (CPI) for July this year went up by 5.96 percent over the same period of last year, according to the figures released Monday by the city’s Statistics and Census Service (SCS). The figure was the highest since December 2008, when CPI went up by 6.16 […]
Macau, China, 22 Aug – Visitors’ spending – excluding gambling expenses – reached 10.1 billion patacas in the second quarter of this year, an increase of 15 percent over the same period of last year, The Macau Post Daily reports today, citing data released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) last week. Visitors’ non-gambling […]
Hong Kong,China, 19 Aug – China’s central government supports Hong Kong’s active role in cooperation with Guangdong Province and Macau Special Administrative Region, and is steadfast to enhance and deepen the cooperation, a Chinese government delegation led by Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang said at a forum in Hong Kong. As part of series of […]
Macau, China, 16 Aug – Macau’s hospitality industry logged a record 3,988,791 guests in the first half of this year, an increase of five percent over the same period of last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Monday. Hotels’ average occupancy rate in the first six months stood at 82 percent, up 3.3 […]
Macau, China, 15 Aug – Another agglomeration of new private flats will flood the local property market as a total of 5,951 flats are being built, 345 have been built, and 356 have been granted occupation permits, according to the latest figures released by the Lands, Public Works and Transportation Bureau (DSSOPT) Sunday. Although it […]