Macau, China, 29 Oct – Vehicles from Macau could be allowed to drive in the so-called Hengqin New Area, the president of the Guangdong City Development Research Centre, Song Jinsong, told reporters Wednesday. Song said this would be one of the planned measures to facilitate the movement of people and goods among Guangdong, Hong Kong […]
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Macau, China, 29 Oct – Seamless cross-border connections between Macau and the other cities of the Greater Pearl River Delta (GPRD) will play an important role in changing Macau’s "marginalised" status in the Pearl River Delta traffic network, Wong Chan Tong, chief-of-cabinet of the Secretary for Transport and Public Works said Wednesday. Wong made the […]
Macau, China, 28 Oct – The Macau government generally respected religious freedom in practice, according to the 2009 International Religious Freedom Report, released Monday by the United States Department of State. The document said that "there were no reports of societal abuses or discrimination based on religious affiliation, belief, or practice". "Relations among the various […]
Macau, China, 28 Oct – Macau’s total number of visitor arrivals in September rose 3.8 percent year-on-year to 1.68 million, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) announced Tuesday. However, September’s number of visitor arrivals dropped 18.2 percent compared with the previous month, according to The Macau Post Daily. The daily average of visitor arrivals stood […]
Macau, China, 22 Oct – The president of the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) Sam Hou Fai Of said Wednesday that from the 126,082 cases processed by the three Courts in Macau between 2000 and 2009, a total of 115,826 cases had judgments delivered. The president of the Court of Final Appeal made the announcement […]
Macau, China, Oct 22 – The relationship between Macau and Taiwan will enter a new phase of development, said Wednesday the Chief Executive, Edmund Ho Hau Wah, in his speech Wednesday at the opening ceremony of a symposium on Macau-Taiwan relations. Edmund Ho announces that the government of Macau Special Administrative Region will strengthen, in […]
Macau, China, 19 Oct – Veteran lawmaker Lau Cheok Va was elected president of the Legislative Assembly last Friday, succeeding Susana Chou who decided to retire from political life after leading the legislature for a decade, according to The Macau Post Daily. Lau, aged 64, received 23 votes, or 79.3 percent of the 29 votes […]
>Macau, China, 15 Oct – Macau’s number of hotel guests rose 15.5 percent year-on-year to 631,454 in August, some 87,000 more than its total population, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) announced Wednesday. At the end of June, Macau had 544,200 inhabitants. Month-on-month, the number of hotel guests in August was up 20.1 percent. Mainlanders […]
Macau, China, 06 Oct – The Chief Executive (CE) of Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) Ho Hau Wah Monday announced his decision to appoint seven persons from various local socio-economic sectors as the non-elected members of the SAR’s fourth-term Legislative Assembly, according to an official statement. In line with the Basic Law, the SAR’s mini […]
Hong Kong, China, 05 Oct – New immigration facilities for Hong Kong residents visiting Macau could be in place by the end of this year at the earliest, an official said Saturday. Measures under consideration by Macau authorities include extending "e-channel" facilities to Macau and dispensing with arrival/departure cards for Hong Kong permanent residents, assistant […]
Macau, China, 30 Sept – The Macau government will pay a US$ 150 million (1.2 billion Patacas) to the Chinese city of Zhuhai, bordering Macau, for a land of 1.1 square kilometers leased for 40 years, according to the Secretary for Transport and Public Works. Lau Si Io said that the rental of the land […]
Macau, China, 25 Set – Macau logged 2.06 million visitor arrivals in August, an increase of 6.4 percent on the same month of last year, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) announced Thursday. Compared with the previous month, the number of arrivals was up 17.7 percent. August’s figure was the highest since March 2008, which […]