Until Tuesday, the second phase of the government’s consumption subsidy smartcard scheme had injected around MOP 2.9 billion to into the local market, an Economic Affairs Bureau (DSE) statement noted on Thursday.
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The Austrian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and Macao has become the latest National Chamber Member of the Macau European Chamber of Commerce (MECC), MECC President Carlos Duque Simões said in a speech on Thursday.
A non-resident worker was arrested last Saturday for using his smartphone to film an upskirt of a woman when she was on an escalator at the Barrier Gate checkpoint, Public Security Police spokeswoman Lai In Hong said at a regular press conference this week.
Taipa Library will be closed from Monday to Friday as renovation work will be carried out during that time, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement on Thursday.
A case of collective viral gastroenteritis (also known as stomach flu) involving five children from Mong Ha Nursery in Areia Preta was reported to the Health Bureau (SSM) on Thursday, according to a SSM statement.
Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon said on Wednesday that for the time being, the government will not consider setting up a licensing system for the city’s takeaways but instead will first set up a mandatory registration system for them next year.
The General Association of Chinese Students of Macau (AECM) surveyed 3,690 pupils, 10% of whom said that they had been cyberbullied, a statement provided by the group during a press conference at Wa Long Industrial Building on Wednesday.
Wynn Resort (Macau) hosted the 2020 Wynn Local SME Procurement Partnership Meeting and E-Commerce Forum on Wednesday, aiming to serve as a starting point for the transformation and upgrading of local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The tentative opening date of the Londoner Hotel, located where Holiday Inn was previously, is in February, Sands China President Wilfred Wong Ying-wai said on Wednesday.
Chinese New Year (CNY) Market 2021 auctions were “less heated” than previous years, the head of Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) Vender Division Kam Chi Wai told reporters on Wednesday after the auctions for the incense and windmill booths in front of A-Ma Temple and Kun Iam Temple.
A couple was caught in a drug bust in Iao Hon district on Tuesday, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference on Wednesday.
The Cultural Affairs Bureau announced on Tuesday that it will launch a cultural heritage evaluation procedure today for 12 properties during which the government will determine whether they will be officially classified as cultural heritage sites.