The DSEC’s latest business climate survey illustrates the struggles Macao businesses face as more locals choose to eat and shop on the Chinese mainland.
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According to official figures, visitors spent 36 percent more in the first quarter of this year than they did in the last. But show-goers’ spending more than doubled.
The plan offers generous tax breaks to top overseas professionals working in areas earmarked in the government’s economic diversification strategy.
While workers can identify problematic behaviour, fear of offending clients stops them from intervening when they see it, researchers have found.
Laws against the practice have been hobbled by poor enforcement, insurgency, grinding poverty and local traditions that view 15 as the age of maturity.
Bella the beluga lives in a small tank, all alone, at one of South Korea’s biggest malls. Those campaigning for her release say this captivity is cruel.
The Chief Executive says that casinos have been eclipsed by the non-gambling sector when it comes to the city’s gross domestic product.
The UN’s special rapporteur says Washington’s sanctions on China do not conform to international law and are tantamount to human rights violations.
Lai is considered a separatist by Beijing, which is stepping up pressure on the island as geopolitical tensions mount in the South China Sea.
Macao’s top official says the topic of the Chief Executive election did not come up during Xia Baolong’s visit, even though the vote is five months away at the latest.
The scheme marks the first time that people outside the Chinese mainland can set up digital yuan accounts locally.
One measure enables local governments to repurchase land from ailing developers; another could see state-owned firms buying vacant apartments.