Taipei, Taiwan, 25 Jul – Fifteen airline passengers were hurt on Sunday when they used inflatable evacuation slides after their Taiwan to Macau flight was aborted due to smoke belching from an engine, The Macau Post Daily reports today, citing Taiwanese media reports. The MD90 aircraft belonging to Taiwan ‘s EVA Airways flashed abnormal signals […]
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Macau, China, 7 Jul – The 10-member Executive Council Wednesday concluded its discussion on a government-drafted bill that proposes to limit graft-busters investigative period per case to a maximum of eight months, The Macau Post Daily reports today. Executive Council spokesman Leong Heng Teng announced the amended bill’s main proposed changes in a press conference […]
Macau, China, 5 Jul – The Macau government announced Monday that it will set up an office in Taiwan this year, in an effort to provide comprehensive services for Macau residents in Taiwan. Alexis Tam Chon Weng, chief spokesman of the Macau government and chief-of-staff of the office of Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, […]
Macau, China, 29 Jun – The United States has urged Macau authorities to “significantly increase efforts to vigorously investigate and prosecute” human trafficking offenders, The Macau Post Daily reports today. The US State Department made the appeal in its Trafficking in Persons Report 2011, which was released in Washington on Monday. The annual report […]
Macau, China, 28 Jun – The Macau government will next week release details about the Office that it plans to set up in Taiwan, write today The Macau Post Daily. According to Alexis Tam Chon Weng, chief-of-gabinet of Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On “ the government´s preparations for setting up the office were coming […]
Macau, China, 27 Jun – In an evaluation of the performance of Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On and his five policy secretaries, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Cheong U scored 60.5 out of 100 points in terms of overall satisfaction, the highest score among Chui’s five policy secretaries and higher than Chui himself, […]
Macau, China, 24 Jun -The budget for the first phase of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) project has been increased to about 11 billion patacas (US$ 1.375 billion) from its previous budget of 7.5 billion patacas, an increase of 47 percent, according to Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT) Director Lei Chan Tong. Lei made remark to […]
Macau, China, 24 Jun – Macau logged 11.06 million visitor arrivals in the first five months of this year, an increase of 7.2 percent on the same period of last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Thursday. Visitors from Asia accounted for 97.4 percent of all arrivals between January and May, The […]
Macau, China, 24 Jun – Juneyao Airlines’ inaugural Shanghai-Macau flight touched down at Macau International Airport in Taipa on Thursday, making it the fifth air carrier serving the route after Macau ’s flag-carrier Air Macau, China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines and Spring Airlines,. The Macau Post Daily reports today. The newcomer serves the apparently […]
Macau, China, 23 Jun – An Avenue in Macau was named “Avenida Doutor Henry Fok” Wednesday. The previously unnamed avenue runs from Rotunda do Istmo to Avenida do Aeroporto in Taipa, between the Macau University of Science and Technology and City of Dreams casino complex. The avenue is about 800 metres long. According to Raymond […]
Macau, China, 23 Jun – The government has been taking measures to eliminate mosquito breeding sites in public areas since April and is urging residents to do the same at home to prevent the risk of being bitten by a dengue fever carrying mosquito, as the humid and warm weather is creating the perfect breeding […]
Macau, China, 20 Jun – In an evaluation of the performance of Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On and his five policy secretaries, Secretary for Administration and Justice Florinda Chan Lai Man scored 49.42 out of 100 points in terms of overall satisfaction, the lowest score, according to a survey released by the Macau New […]