Hong Kong-listed SJM Holdings’ net profit rose by 45.2 percent year-on-year to HK$2.85 billion patacas last year, the gaming company said Thursday.
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A flat in the Van Sion Son Chun residential estate in Fai Chi Kei was on fire Wednesday night and a man in his eighties living in the flat had no heartbeat when he was rescued by firemen
The government’s Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) approved 510 projects last year, involving 260 million patacas in financial support, FDCT President Frederico Ma Chi Ngai announced Thursday.
Macau’s total value of retail sales rose by 15.9 percent year-on-year to 76.8 billion patacas last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced.
Macau is expected to experience moderate economic expansion in the medium term, with surpluses in budget execution and external accounts sustained by mass tourism and non-gambling tourism, coupled with the continued monopoly on gambling in China, according to forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said Thursday that the number of child sex abuse cases recorded in 2018 rose 50 percent year-on-year, calling for joint action by the different sectors of civil society to tackle the issue.
Macao Water will continue to “optimise” its facilities, the company’s executive director, Nacky Kuan Sio Peng, promised Thursday.
The police arrested 71 men and women on Saturday for their alleged involvement in a loan-sharking gang controlled by a triad organisation, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lun said in a special press conference Monday.
Macau’s number of non-resident workers rose by 4.3 percent year-on-year to 188,321 at the end of last month, the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) announced, citing immigration statistics from the Public Security Police (PSP).
Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, will travel on Thursday to Beijing to attend a meeting on Friday of the central government’s leading group for the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA), the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) said in a statement Monday.
Visitors’ non-gaming spending rose by 13.6 percent to 69.7 billion patacas (US$ 8.7 billion) last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.
A Judiciary Police (PJ) officer has been suspended for the possession of unexplained wealth, the website of the Secretariat for Security (GSS) said Sunday.