More car parks, online meter payment, and more ‘green’ transport on drawing board; cable car plan defended as tourist attraction.
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Brand new US$400 million port should be able to handle up to one million containers a year, and is set to start operations in November.
Four new rail lines should be running by 2028; 10 kilometres of elevated walkways to thread their way above city’s most congested areas; electric-powered vehicles to be encouraged.
Under discount scheme running until end of December, fares range between MOP 1.5 and 2.5 depending on length of trip.
Porcelain painting and making almond cookies among other activities scheduled for China Cultural and Natural Heritage Day Carnival.
More than 200,000 residents pick up their MOP 8,000 on first day; scheme’s validity expires on 28 February next year.
Hamilton Mourão points to Africa, Asia and the Middle East as future markets, calls for establishment of body of South American food producers ‘like OPEC’.
Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang applaud island nation’s 20 years’ independence, promise to develop relations in future.
Court revisited all evidence, including Chang’s travel records and text messages with Ng Kuok Sao, who was given 18-year sentence.
Report noted media were constrained and ‘political rights and freedoms’ undermined but praised economic performance and Covid-19 prevention measures.
‘World’s latest health menace’ spreading rapidly, according to WHO; disease can be permanently disfiguring, risk of death as high as 11 per cent.
Additional case adds to worrying trend this year that Health Bureau has called ‘significantly high’; foul play not suspected, autopsy to follow.