Four men and a woman were arrested on Wednesday for using forged documents to cheat the government’s continuing education subsidy scheme out of MOP 1.76 million (US$223,000), Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference on Thursday.
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Macao's top tourism official says that Macao's international visitor arrivals will probably only return in the second half of next year.
The office of Macao's top security official denied today a claim by Malaysian police chief that the Southeast Asian fugitive financier Jho Low is hiding in Macao.
Hong Kong registered a record 150 new confirmed Covid-19 cases on Thursday, medical sources said, as the government caved to public pressure and reversed its all-day ban on eating in restaurants.
Shen Beili, after heading the Foreign Ministry Commission in Macao for two years, took up her new post as a vice-minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee (IDCPC) this month
The University of Macau (UM) announced on Wednesday that the classes for the upcoming academic year will begin on 7 September.
The 20th round of the government’s facemask purchase scheme – which will start tomorrow – will last 30 days, during which each local resident and non-resident worker will be entitled to buy 30 facemasks at the fixed price of MOP 24.
Alvis Lo Iek Long, a clinical director of the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre, said during Wednesday's press conference that 108 million “government facemasks” have been sold since the scheme’s launch in January.
A 62-year-old Hong Kong man who had worked in Macao since March and returned to Hong Kong on 11 July has tested positive for Covid-19 there.
The local government is striving for the resumption of the mainland’s Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) to Macao, Secretary for Economy and Finance Lei Wai Nong told reporters on Wednesday.
Secretary for Economy and Finance Lei Wai Nong told reporters on Wednesday that the government has already spent MOP 10 billion on alleviating residents’ burden of COVID-19.
The Macao Civil Aviation Authority (AACM) said in a statement on Wednesday that drone flights over some areas in Macao will be banned during the government-sponsored helicopter rides to ensure that the sightseeing tours will take place in a safe environment.