Macau, China, 23 Jan – Macau and four regions of the Great Pearl River Delta are at the Lisbon Tourism Fair (BTL), which is taking place at Portugal’s capital city until 25 January. Tourism representatives from Zhuhai, Zhongshan, Jiangmen and Sichuan are sharing a 225-square-metre stand with the Chinese Special Administrative Region. This is the […]
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Macau, China, 19 Jan – The government of Macau said on Sunday that the US$625 million (five billion patacas) it made available to rebuild the Chinese province of Sichuan, devastated by an earthquake in 2008, will be invested in the next three years. The announcement was made by Chui Sai On, the secretary for Macau […]
Macau, China, 15 Jan – More than 30 million visitors travelled to Macau in 2008, which represented an increase of 11 percent against 2007, Joao Costa Antunes, director of the Macau Tourism Office, said on Wednesday. Antunes said that in 2008 a total of 30.18 million people visited Macau and of this amount, 17.5 million […]
Macau, China, 07 Jan – Macau International Airport recorded a passenger movement of 5,097,802 last year, a drop of seven percent on 2007, the airport management company ADA announced Tuesday. In 2007 Macau airport received 5,5 miilion passengers. The number of passengers in December 2008 fell 24 percent year-on-year to 354,253. Month-on-month, December movement was […]
Macau, China, 6 Jan – Businessman Ho Iat Seng, who has been mentioned as one of the potential candidates for the Chief Executive of the Special Administrative Region of Macau from 20 December 2009, said he does not plan to compete for the position, Tuesday’s edition of Hoje Macau reported. The newspaper reported that 51-year […]
Macau, China, 6 Jan – Businessman Ho Iat Seng, who has been mentioned as one of the potential candidates for the Chief Executive of the Special Administrative Region of Macau from 20 December 2009, said he does not plan to compete for the position, Tuesday’s edition of Hoje Macau reported. The newspaper reported that 51-year […]
Macau, China, 29 Dec – Another major redesign of Macau’s second permanent ferry terminal located in Taipa island means the project will not be completed until 2012, three years behind schedule. A source from Macau’s Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) told MacauNews the redesign was necessary due to the continual increase in the number of people […]
Macau receives around 28 million visitors in first 11 months of year; 58 percent from mainland China
Macau, China, 26 Dec – Around 28 million visitors went to Macau in the first 11 months of the year, which represents an increase of 13.4 percent against the same period in 2007, according to the region’s Statistics and Census Bureau. According to official statistics, between January and November Macau received 27.63 million visitors, 58 […]
Beijing, China, 23 Dec – China’s president Hu Jintao met Macau Special Administrative Region Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On in Beijing Wednesday during a visit to report his work to central authorities. Accordint to Xinhua News Agency during the meeting with Chui, Hu spoke highly of the Macau government’s work in 2010. Macau’s economy […]
Beijing, China, 20 Dec – China’s president, Hu Jintao and prime minister, Wen Jiabao, pledged Friday in Beijing that the central government would take all necessary steps, to ensure the financial stability and economic development of Macau, according to a statement issued by the Macau government. The two Chinese leaders were speaking at separate meetings […]
Macau, China, 17 Dec – Macau Chief Executive Edmund Ho Hau Wah said Tuesday that a proposal for a national defence and security bill, which includes a 25-year prison sentence for treason against China, has already been submitted to the Executive Council, and will then go to the Legislative Assembly. The bill proposal, which has […]
Taipei, Taiwan, 16 Dec – The start of direct flights on Monday between Taiwan and the mainland will cut the number of Taiwan visitors to Macau’s airport by half a million a year, a counsellor in the Mainland Affairs Council of the Taiwan government said to "Macau Monitor". Chen Zhong-hung has just returned home from […]