Macau, China, 17 Jun -Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office (HKMAO) of the State Council, China’s cabinet, Wang Guangya concluded his three-day visit to Macau on Thursday. Wang, who made his conclusion of the visit at the Macau International Airport Thursday, said that the visit gave him a good impression on Macau […]
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Macau, China, 16 Jun – Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO) Director Wang Guangya said Wednesday he hoped that Macau could work towards a well-rounded development, specifying the event and cultural industries in particular, in a bid to reach the point of becoming an international entertainment and leisure hub. On Wang’s second day of […]
Macau, China, 15 Jun – Wang Guangya, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO) of the State Council, arrived in Macau Tuesday for a three-day working visit. Wang arrived from a three-day working visit to Hong Kong . Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On and Macau ’s principal officials, including […]
Macau, China, 13 Jun -Taiwan police on Saturday repatriated 122 phone and Internet scam suspects to the island via Macau on a chartered plane, The Macau Post Daily reports today. Another 100 suspects are slated to be flown back to Taiwan from Indonesia today in the operation’s second round of repatriations following a massive cross-border crime crackdown, […]
Macau, China, 8 Jun – Macau, China, 8 Jun – Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office Director Wang Guangya will pay his first working visit to Macau next week, the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) announced Tuesday. According to the announcement the visit between next Tuesday and Thursday will take place at the invitation of […]
Macau, China, 7 Jun – The Public Security Police (PSP) announced Monday the arrest of 14 suspected pickpockets from the mainland allegedly involved in a legion of recent thefts in the city main thoroughfare, San Ma Lou, The Macau Post Daily reported today. A PSP spokesperson said in a press conference that all the 14 […]
Macau, China, 2 Jun – Secretary for Economic and Finance Francis Tam Pak Yuen said Wednesday that the central government would "shortly" approve favorable policies to encourage Macau businesses to invest in the Guangdong-Macau Co-operative Industrial Park in Hengqin island. Tam said he believed the green light from Beijing would come in the second half […]
Macau, China, 1 Jun -The government’s expenditure in the January-April period stood at 10.4 billion patacas, up 115.6 percent year-on-year, the Finance Service Bureau (DSF) announced yesterday. The government’s revenue rose 46.5 percent year-on-year to 33.1 billion patacas in the January-April period, resulting in an overall surplus of 22.7 billion patacas, up 27.8 percent […]
Macau, China, 27 May -Macau’s hotels, restaurants and similar businesses employed 53,921 people at the end of March, accounting for 16.1 percent of Macau ’s total workforce, according to figures released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) Thursday. While 36,163 people were employed by the hospitality industry, 18,758 worked in restaurants. The […]
Macau, China, 26 May -A Portuguese lawyer was attacked Wednesday by a young man who threw corrosive liquid over him burning about a tenth of his body, informed sources told The Macau Post Daily. The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement that it has launched an investigation into the case. The Judiciary Police said […]
Macau, China, 25 May – An audit report released Tuesday found that the government’s Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT) spent 260 million patacas on the core service and construction contracts for the Macau light rail project, which were not included in the publicly announced 7.5 billion patacas (US$ 930 million) budget, which itself already has overrun. […]
Macau, China, 24 May – Macau logged 8.77 million visitor arrivals in the first four months of this year, up 6.6 percent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Monday. Mainlanders and Hong Kong citizens accounted for 56.4 percent and 28.4 percent of all visitor arrivals between January and April, respectively. The number […]