Macau, China, 27 Jul – A total of 13 people were injured in a suspected gas explosion in a restaurant in Macau’s Outer Harbour area Tuesday, the government said. Eight of the injured required hospital treatment and only one remained in hospital for observation. The injured included five men and eight women, one of whom […]
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Macau, China, 26 Jul – Pansy Ho Chiu King, co-chairwoman of MGM China Holdings, told Taiwan ’s Want Daily in an interview published yesterday that her company was making plans to invest in Taiwan ’s hospitality and tourism sector, The Macau Post Daily reports today, citing the island’s Central News Agency (CNA). The CNA […]
Macau, China, 25 Jul – Visitors from Asia made up 97.4 percent of all visitor arrivals in the first half of this year. In the same period of last year Asian visitors accounted for 97.3 percent of all arrivals, The Macau Post Daily reports today. Macau recorded 13.2 million visitor arrivals in the first […]
Macau, China, 24 Aug – Macau logged a record 2.55 million visitor arrivals in July, up 18 percent year-on-year, The Macau Post Daily reports today, quoting data released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC). The daily average of visitor arrivals reached 82,286 last month, corresponding to nearly 15 percent of Macau ’s population. The […]
Macau, China, 21 Jul – The central government has appointed Assistant Foreign Minister Hu Zhengyue as the Foreign Ministry’s new commissioner in Macau. according to Xinhua news agency. According to the Foreign Ministry website, Hu was born in Zhejiang province in 1953. He joined the Foreign Ministry in 1976. His previous postings include Malaysia , […]
Macau, China, 21 Jul – Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si Io said Wednesday that the final plan of the government’s light rail transit (LRT) project is “the best”, pledging that its construction will follow “international standards” by setting up a fire-prevention system and taking measures to protect the environment. The Macau Post […]
Macau, China, 20 Jul – The government’s annual music festival, which celebrates its silver jubilee this year, has been known for making use of the city’s heritage sites to present top-notch performances, and this year, the choice of venues has been extended to a “natural” stage, Hac Sa Beach, The Macau Post Daily reports today. […]
Macau’s hotel and guesthouses recorded 3.28 million guests in the first five months of this year, a modest 2.7 percent increase from the same period a year earlier, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Thursday. In May, Macau ’s hospitality industry logged 689,495 guests, up 5.9 percent on the same month of last year. […]
Macau, China, 14 Jul -First Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying indicated Wednesday that foreign consular staff should stay away from the internal affairs of Hong Kong and Macau, The Macau Post Daily reports today. Fu made the hint during a meeting with about 50 local community leaders in the Office of the Commissioner of the […]
Macau,China, 13 Jul -Macau has become a transit hub for drug traffickers and smugglers, so more attention needs to be paid to this worrying trend, Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Wong Sio Chak said Tuesday. According to The Macau Post Daily, Wong made the remark in a speech during an award ceremony marking the 51st anniversary […]
Macau, China, 13 Jul – Macau has become the latest partner to sign an agreement with Australia that will assist both governments in preventing offshore tax avoidance and evasion, the Australian Consulate-General in Hong Kong, which is concurrently accredited to Macau, announced in a statement. Australian Consul-General Les Luck signed the Tax Information Exchange […]
Macau, China, 4 JUl – Tiger Airways’ flights to and from Macau are not affected by the grounding of its Australian subsidiary’s aircraft due to safety concerns, the Singaporean airline said in a statement sent to The Macau Post Daily Sunday. According to the statement, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia on Friday suspended […]