Mainland Chinese film mogul Wang Haige is determined to transform Macao into “Mollywood,” the Business Wire news service reported this week.
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Some MOP 1.46 billion from the public coffers have already been injected into local businesses in the first month and a half of the government’s consumption subsidy smartcard scheme.
Hong Kong’s plan to form a travel bubble with Macao and neighbouring Guangdong province on mainland China has stalled over technical issues.
The local government says current COVID-19 testing capability of its nucleic acid testing (NAT) scheme will be able to meet the increasing demand for the tests resulting from the new quarantine waiver granted to all Macao non-resident workers living in Zhuhai.
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng has ordered a 10% decrease in current expenditure in the public administration next year.
Following the earlier reopening of cultural facilities and rehearsal venues, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement on Monday that it will resume operation of its performance venues from Friday onwards.
The President of Sands China, Wilfred Wong, will remain in his position until February 20, 2024, a year more than the term initially approved by the gaming operator’s board.
A local woman was arrested on Friday for attacking her Filipina colleague with a stick and biting two police officers.
The Macao government will exempt from today all Macao non-resident workers living in Zhuhai from the current 14-day quarantine imposed on non-resident workers from the mainland.
As of Sunday, Macao had not confirmed a new COVID-19 case for 74 consecutive days. All of Macao’s 45 COVID-19 patients have been discharged from hospital.
A local woman was arrested on Thursday for cheating a female civil servant out of about MOP 1.04 million to purchase two properties in the UK.
Fourteen suspects belonging to two gangs were recently arrested for smuggling codeine cough syrup from Macao to the mainland, and the local and mainland police seized 741 bottles in the operation.