The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement on Tuesday that after studying the Animal Protection Law, it believed that feeding strays does not equate to abandoning animals.
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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 9th Macau Literary Festival will be shorter than previous ones, the organisers announced on Tuesday.
The government wants to set up a “world-class adventure park” on plots of land surrounding Hac Sa while caravan camping would be considered in a project which is currently being studied by a consultancy.
The Macao government will purchase 1.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines covering the city’s whole population as each person will need two shots in order for the vaccine to be effective.
The government has been studying details on how to implement the mainland-style community-based Covid-19 control measures in Macao – in case it confirms new local Covid-19 cases.
The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement on Monday that they arrested recently a 25-year-old tutorial centre staff member for secretly taking a video of a female pupil using the toilet at her school.
A local man caught on 12 September allegedly threatened and attacked a bus driver, Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Lai In Hong said at a regular press conference on Monday.
Macao’s visitor arrivals rose 206.9% month-to-month but fell 93.7% year-on-year to 227,113 in August, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Monday.
The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement on Monday that it has launched an online bookshop to facilitate the selecting and purchasing of its publications by readers from Macao and abroad via the Internet, aiming to promote reading among the public.
CTM Network Services Vice President Declan Leong Pui Hong told reporters on Monday that the progress of setting up the city’s 5G internet network was “ideal”, adding that Macao would have full indoor and outdoor 5G coverage by the end of December.
BNU existing control mechanisms are effective, the bank's CEO assures, after documents leaked from the US federal agency FinCEN point to suspect financial transactions in Macao.
Macao's economy will recover in 2021 from a 63% fall projected for this year with the Special Administrative Region's "fortunes tied to a recovery in Chinese tourism", the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) says.