Responding to growing calls that there should be a specific law in place to ban non-locals from working as croupiers and pit supervisors in the city’s casinos, Secretary for Finance and Economy Francis Tam Pak Yuen said Tuesday that there was already a law in place regulating the hiring of imported labour. He also said […]
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Macau recorded 896,847 visitor arrivals during the mainland’s October 1-7 Golden Week holiday, an increase of 5.7 percent from the same time last year, the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) said in a statement Thursday. The MGTO figures differ slightly from statistics released by the Public Security Police (PSP) earlier this week, according to which […]
The Macau Federation of Trade Unions (commonly known as Gung Luen) started yesterday a signature-collecting campaign outside the Barrier Gate checkpoint, with the aim of pushing the government to draft a bill that would ban non-local residents from being hired as croupiers and pit supervisors by the city’s casinos. Choi Kam Fu, a member of […]
Court of Final Appeal (TUI) President Sam Hou Fai said Thursday that there has been a growing trend by some people attempting to resolve political matters by getting the judiciary involved when it should stay out of such affairs. Sam was one of the speakers at a ceremony marking the official start of the new […]
Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) deputy chief Lin Chu-chia said Tuesday that Taipei was still studying whether to allow permanent residents of the special administration regions of Macau and Hong Kong to enter the island without the need to apply for a visa before arrival. He also said that there was no schedule for a […]
Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On announced in Monday’ Official Gazette (BO) the appointments of seven residents as members of the Legislative Assembly, comprising five re-appointees and two newly appointed lawmakers – a 66-year-old veteran legislator and a 35-year-old newcomer. According to the announcement, the five re-appointed lawmakers are Tsui Wai Kwan, Tong Io Cheng, […]
Chief Executive (CE) Fernando Chui Sai On said Sunday that his government will urge the city’s six gaming operators to offer croupiers better training to increase their promotion chances. Chui made the remark on the sidelines of a National Day celebration hosted by the Macau Scout Association at the Workers Sports Complex near the Barrier […]
Two days after declaring bankruptcy, Reolian General Manager Cédric Rigaud admitted Thursday that there was a difference between the working cultures in Macau and Europe but insisted that those differences did not affect the way the French company was running its public bus service in Macau, adding the decision to file for bankruptcy was merely […]
SAS BREZAC Artifices, from France, won the 25th Macau International Fireworks contest followed by China and Switzerland in the second and third rank. The prize for the champion team is US$ 8,000 US dollars whereas the second and third prize winners were awarded 4,000 and 2,500 dollars respectively. Ten teams came from Asia, Europe, America, […]
The government seized Wednesday the operations of Reolian Public Transport Co, one day after the public bus firm filed for bankruptcy because it ran out of money to pay its workers. According to Business Daily paper the decision could force a reshuffle of the three-operator bus system introduced just two years ago. Reolian filed for […]
Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said this week that he will never break his promise that only locals can be employed as croupiers in the city’s casinos. Chui’s current 5-year term ends on December 20 next year. However, he is widely expected to be re-elected for a second term which, according to the Macau […]
Macau is ready to help bailed-out Portugal overcome its severe economic crisis, Alexis Tam Chon Weng, chief-of-cabinet of the Macau chief executive’s office, said last week. Tam, who also is the Macau government’s top spokesperson, made the remark during a TDM interview in Lisbon last week where he co-chaired the 2nd Macau-Portugal Joint Committee meeting. […]