The government aims to complete formulating its guidelines on the method the city’s government-owned enterprises should announce their financial information and start implementing the guidelines next month.
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The government plans to launch a public consultation in the first half of this year on building the “East” section of the Light Rail Transit (LRT).
The Health Bureau confirmed last night a serious flu case, a 67-year-old local man suffering from various chronic diseases.
Local man, who arrived in Macau from Wuhan on January 8, remains under observation in the isolation ward of the public Conde de S. Januário Hospital Centre.
Last year was the hottest year on record in Macau, the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) has announced.
The Macau government is keeping in close contact with the national authorities responsible for public health and disease control on the latest developments relating to the outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan.
Judiciary Police Director Sit Chong Meng is convinced that Macau people don’t want Hong Kong-style social turmoil.
Findings of MGTO survey on the possible implementation of a tourist tax shows 95% of local residents support such a tax, while 80% of those in the tourism sector oppose it.
The government said in a statement last night that it has installed temperature measuring equipment at all local border checkpoints and also reinforced its sanitary inspection measures at the local airport, in particular for flights arriving from Wuhan.
Local telecom operator CTM and Angola Cables have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will enhance digital business opportunities between Macau, mainland China and Portuguese-speaking countries.
A people-smuggling gang which helped mainlanders enter and leave Macau illegally on speedboats have been busted.
All incidents related to the operation of the Light Rapid Transit (LRT) will be “uniformly” reported to the media by the government-owned LRT operator from now on.