Civic and Municipal Affair Bureau (IACM) administration committee member Ung Sau Hong said Wednesday that penalties proposed in the latest version of the government’s long-delayed animal protection bill are “very tough.” Ung said the maximum fine of 100,000 patacas should be deterrent enough to prevent animals from being abused. According to The Macau Post Daily, […]
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Macau is the seventh favorite destination for Chinese travellers, according to a survey released by daodao.com, TripAdvisor’s customized Chinese brand. Mainland tourists’ top destination continues to be the neighboring region of Hong Kong, followed by the island of Phuket in Thailand,Taiwan, Bangkok, Paris, Dubai, Macau, Seoul, Singapore and Bali. The survey indicates that the Chinese […]
Macau recorded 19.57 million visitor arrivals in the first eight months of this year, an increase of 4.7 percent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Monday. Mainlanders and Hongkongers accounted for 63.6 and 23.5 percent of all visitor arrivals respectively. Guangdong residents accounted for 28.4 percent of all visitor arrivals. About 27.5 percent […]
Central People’s Government Liaison Office Director Bai Zhijian said Wednesday that more businesspeople in the newly-elected legislature than in the previous one would not cause the government’s future policies to lean towards the interests of the business community. According to The Macau Post Daily, he made the comments after attending the opening ceremony of the […]
The Macao Foundation donated 24 million yuan (US$ 3.9 million) to the Chinese Foundation for Lifeline Express at a ceremony held in Beijing. The money will be used to aid the maintenance and equipment replacement of the mobile ophthalmology clinic trains and sponsor two service stations in central China’s Hubei Province and northwest China’s Gansu […]
Commissioner Against Corruption Vasco Fong Man Chong said Tuesday that if the government decided to amend the Legislative Assembly Election Law, he believed it was the right time now to re-assess the role that Macau’s gaming operators play in the election. Fong made the suggestion on the sidelines of the swearing-in ceremony for six new […]
The 13 grassroots groups that competed in Sunday’s direct legislative election garnered 48,879 votes, or 33.3 percent of the total 146,453 valid votes cast, The Macau Post Daily reports today. In the 2009 election, the grassroots camp’s then seven groups won 47,987 votes, or 33.83 percent of the 149,006 valid votes cast. The grassroots camp […]
The new campus of the University of Macau (UM) on Hengqin Island is not yet ready as quality inspections still have to be carried out so that students had to start the new term Monday on the old campus in Taipa. The government-owned university said in a statement it expected the Hengqin campus to be […]
Business leaders are the big winners and grassroots groups the big losers of Sunday’s direct legislative election. The Macau United Citizens Association (ACUM) electoral group headed by businessman-cum-Fujianese community leader Chan Meng Kam won an unprecedented three directly-elected seats in the 33-member legislature. Aside from Chan, the group’s second- and third-ranked candidates, Si Ka Lon […]
Macau’s 97 hotels and guesthouses welcomed 6.14 million guests in the first seven months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 14.7 percent, according to official data cited by The Macau Post Daily today. The average occupancy rate stood at 80.5 percent in the seven-month period, down by 2.1 percentage points. At the end of […]
The Public Security Police (PSP) announced Thursday the arrests of two mainland women for false imprisonment and loan sharking on Wednesday. According to The Macau Post Daily, a PSP spokesperson announced the arrests in a regular press conference. According to the spokesperson, three suspects, all from mainland women, are allegedly involved in the case but […]
Those who climb over fences to the University of Macau’s new campus in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, will be punished for illegal border crossing, an official with the provincial border control agency confirmed to the Global Times. The Zhuhai-based Zhujiang Evening News reported over the weekend that since the construction of the new campus was completed […]