The fatal fall happened when the sailor working for a local shipping company was casting off the vessel.
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15-year-old girl and 32-year-old woman suffered accidental carbon monoxide poisoning on separate occasions, one on Sunday and one on New Year’s Day.
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng predicted in his New Year’s Message today that Macao “will certainly win the great battle” against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Taiwan decided to ban from January 1st all foreign arrivals, including the transfer or transit of airline passengers, the government announced Wednesday.
The government’s decision to annul the provisional land concessions of 74 plots did not involve any acts of administrative illegality or maladministration.
The Post and Telecommunications Bureau will launch a new collection of stamps and other postal items for the Chinese Lunar Year of the Ox on 5 January.
MOP 910,000 worth of 1,300 cosmetic products and CPUs were seized in a shop near the Barrier Gate checkpoint.
During the Christmas holiday period from December 23 to 27, Macao’s hotel occupancy rate reached 70% with an average of 24,000 visitors per day
Macao’s 120 hotels and guesthouses recorded 473,000 guests last month, a month-on-month growth of 8%, but a year-on-year decline of 59.3%.
Tong Hio Fong, who heads the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Commission, said that over 320,000 permanent residents will be eligible to vote in the 2021 direct election.
The Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) expects more “poor air quality” days next year as the bureau will be using a stricter Air Quality Index (AQI) measurement.
The Municipal Affairs Bureau said a dead porpoise was found floating in the sea near Tam Kong Temple in Coloane Tuesday afternoon.