Visitors from Hong Kong rose 24.3% year-on-year in June to reach 623,000.
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Ferry services from Macau to Hong Kong were suspended from 11:30 p.m. on Sunday as Hong Kong’s ferry terminal in Sheung Wan was “unsuitable” for people to use.
13 local residents plan to run in the chief executive election next month and have picked up nomination forms.
Nearly a dozen construction workers started a standoff on top of a future residential building in Cotai to protest against unfair compensation by their employer.
According to Director of the Judiciary Police Sit Chong Meng, domestic violence cases increased between June 2018 and the end of May 2019 from 3 to 17.
Gongbei Customs District said that parallel traders between Shenzhen and Hong Kong are shifting their smuggling activities to the Gongbei land-border checkpoint and the Zhuhai checkpoint at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge.
Vong Hin Fai disclosed that the government would amend immigration laws to stop tourists from becoming jobseekers.
Kou Hoi In was elected president of the Legislative Assembly by his peers on Wednesday, with 90. 6 per cent of the votes cast, succeeding chief executive hopeful Ho Iat Seng who resigned from the legislature early this month.
The schedule for the by-election of a vacant business-sector seat in the Legislative Assembly is scheduled to be held on November 24.
An Air Macau flight en-route to Macau from Tokyo was forced to return to the Japanese capital on Wednesday afternoon, reportedly due to an engine problem.
The government has been cracking down on illegal online gambling and will continue to do so, resulting in over 300 websites being shut down between 2016 and last year.
The Chief of the Unitary Police Service Ma Io Kun said the platforms would broadcast information on typhoons and other events of importance to the public. They are available in the two official languages, Chinese and Portuguese, as well as in English.