Macau, China, 10 May – The Chief Executive of Macau, Fernando Chui Sai On will pay an official visit Portugal 17-23 June, according to the Portuguese press in Macau. The Secretary for Economy and Finance, Francis Tam and the Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, Cheong U accompany the Chief Executive in his visit. Chui […]
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Macau, China, 7 May – The Health Bureau of Macau (SSM) announced on Thursday that it has found a CRF12_BF subtype of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) that is slightly different from the one found in other regions. The new subtype was detected after the SSM and the medical experts at the Chinese University of Hong […]
Macau, China, 3 May – Macau’s Worker Union representatives and Public Security Police (PSP) Commissioner Lei Siu Peng blasted each other Sunday for starting the violence that marred Saturday’s Labour Day protest. Around 1,000 people, among them many jobless workers, took to the street on Saturday calling for fair employment opportunities and slamming the government’s […]
Chinese President Hu Jintao praised the Hong Kong and Macau Pavilions in the Shanghai World Expo for the “innovative designs and their own unique characteristics”. The Hong Kong and Macau delegations, led respectively by Chief Executives Donald Tsang Yam Kuen and Fernando Chui Sai On, arrived in Shanghai Friday for the opening ceremony of the […]
Macau, China, 29 April – Seap, a consortium of TAP Air Portugal and Banco Nacional Ultramarino, has sold its stake of 0.1 percent it held in Air Macau to Air China, Portuguese news agency Lusa reported Wednesday in Macau. The deal was concluded this week, after Seap (Serviços, Adminsitrações e Participações), which is 75 percent […]
Macau, China, 26 April – Macau’s Chief Executive has said that the government plans to organise,, in the second half of the year, visits by delegations from Macau to Taiwan, and carry out promotional activities related to Macau Week in Taipei City, according to Macauhub. Fernando Chui Sai On, who was speaking after a meeting […]
Macau, China, 26 May – The Macau Government Tourist Office ( MGTO) Tuesday said that it has held promotional activities in India, with the aim to explore the tourism market in the South Asian country. Last year, Macau received over 100,000 visitors from India, registering a growth of 30 percent over 2008. During the first […]
Macau, China, 26 Apr – Macau’s visitor arrivals totaled 6,115,221 in the first quarter of 2010, up by 12.1 percent year-on-year according to the figures released Friday by the city’s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). Visitor arrivals by land reached 3.21 million in the first quarter of 2010, up by 14.7 percent while the number […]
Macau, China, 21 Apr – The government of Macau) Monday announced that it decided to provide an amount of 100 million yuan (US$ 15 million dollars) as quake-relief fund for China’s Qinghai province which was hit by a major earthquake. The fund is aimed at offering more assistance to the Chinese mainland authorities in rescuing […]
Macau, China, 14 Apr – Macau employers will need to start paying 200 patacas (US$ 25.00) per month as an "employment fee" for each imported worker they hire when the Law on Employment of Non-Resident Workers becomes effective on April 26. The administrative regulation will exempt employers of migrant domestic helpers from paying the levy. […]
Macau, China, 13 Apr – AirAsia, Southeast Asia’s biggest low-cost airline, is in "preliminary talks" for a local air operating licence that will allow it to set up a Macau-based venture, according to The Macau Post Daily. The paper said that Air Asia spokesman Raman Narayanan told Bloomberg that the company have been approached two […]
Macau, China, 9 Apr – Chief Executive of Macau Special Administrative Region Fernando Chui Sai On said on Thursday that the Macau government would enforce its capability in protecting the environment. Chui made the remarks at the opening of the 2010 Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum and Exhibition (MIECF), which will be lasted for 3 […]