Residents can start to top up their consumption smartcards for the second phase of the government’s subsidy scheme to boost locals’ spending from Monday at various service points across the city, the government announced on Thursday.
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The processing of applications resumed for the coveted “Helicopter Ride Experience” local tour on Thursday afternoon, according to a statement by the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), which pointed out that applications can still be submitted to travel agencies until 6 pm on Sunday.
A local man and a Filipino were arrested this week for buying and selling a newly classified type of drug commonly known as “K2” with police seizing a total of 7.39 grammes of the drug with an estimated street value of MOP 22,000, Judiciary Police (PJ) Leng Kam Lon said during Thursday's special press conference.
Hong Kong Health Secretary Sophia Chan Siu-chee said on Thursday that the government is considering extending its curbs – like a dine-in ban and mandatory face masks – to more areas if the local coronavirus outbreak doesn't improve.
Sands China Ltd. reported a net loss of US$549 million for the fiscal second quarter, according to an announcement made on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
The government has decided not to cancel sampling via oropharyngeal swabs in its nucleic acid testing (NAT) scheme, after considering residents’ preferences in having their samples collected for a COVID-19 test by this method.
The government has raised the quota for its NAT scheme’s online appointment system to 11,000 people per day, adding that it believes that this can meet the demand by local residents to cross the Macao-Zhuhai border.
Lau Fong Chi from the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) confirmed during Wednesday's press conference that no residents had been able to sign up for the helicopter itinerary of its Macao tour scheme due to system overload.
The number of residential and commercial property sales plunged in the first half of the year amid the ongoing coronavirus-induced economic recession. According to real estate experts, the situation today is similar to 2014, when the property market was reeling from a sharp contraction in gross gaming revenue.
The United Nations University Institute in Macau (UNU Macau) and Caritas Macau announced on Wednesday a five-year strategic partnership to strengthen cooperation on projects that promote policy as well as practice-relevant research and capacity building activities in the fields of sustainable community development, social innovation, and civil society cyber resilience.
Lawmaker-cum-activist Sulu Sou Ka Hou, a vice-president of the non-establishment New Macau Association (NMA), said on Wednesday that he submitted a bill on the disclosure of accounts by publicly subsidised associations to the Legislative Assembly (AL) last week, proposing a number of amendments to current legislation on the matter.
A male non-resident worker was arrested on Tuesday for using his smartphone to film an upskirt video of a local woman, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Choi Iok Kin said during a regular press conference on Wednesday.