Macao’s number of visitor arrivals grew by 29.6% month-to-month to 581,986 last month, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Macao’s value of retail sales rose 29.4%t quarter-to-quarter to MOP 8.92 billion (US$1.12 billion) in the third quarter, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement on Tuesday.
Two men and a woman were caught in a drug bust in San Kio district on Monday.
The Macao government is expected to make a capital injection into Air Macau – which will be the company's third capital increase since 2009 – due to the company's financial situation as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Tribuna de Macau newspaper writes today.
CTM is investing MOP 2 billion in its 5G network over five years, Ebel Cham Pou I, the vice president for the telecom’s commercial affairs, told reporters on Monday.
The Health Bureau has so far received 60 applications from foreign nationals claiming special circumstances for permission to enter Macao from the mainland, a new measure that will be implemented next month.
The Macao government has started discussing details about its purchase of Covid-19 vaccines with producers from the mainland and abroad which are widely expected to commence production of Covid-19 vaccines in the near future.
Four local junior secondary schoolboys aged between 14 and 15 who cyberbullied a 14-year-old schoolgirl over her photo circulating on social media were taken to a police station for questioning last week.
A casino dealer was arrested on Sunday for attacking his wife because she was watching a film on her smartphone and the volume was too loud.
The development of a financial services platform in Macao, able to offer new services such as credit insurance, will demand "many" specialised staff and training, according to economist Rodrigo Brum.
The government has announced that it will submit a bill amending its budget for this year for the third time to the legislature, proposing to allocate MOP 8.15 billion (US$1.02 billion) from its extraordinary reserves so as to cover its expenditure to be spent during the remainder of this year.
An old cannon was found buried at the construction site of Galaxy Macau’s Phase 4 in Cotai Sunday morning, the Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement.