The Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) said Wednesday that the government will spend about 80 million patacas on improving the facilities of the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal and extending the area, with the aim of providing local residents and visitors a better environment Ip Wa Hong, who heads the bureau’s Harbour Management Department, made the […]
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Macau received 14.1 million visitor arrivals in the first six months of the year, a year-on-year growth of 4.2 percent on the same period of last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Tuesday. Mainlanders accounted for 62.9 percent and Hongkongers made up 23.7 percent of all visitors respectively. Most mainland visitors came from […]
Deputy Commissioner of the Foreign Ministry in Macau Zhang Jingfeng said Tuesday the commission was firmly against any outside forces interfering in Macau’s internal affairs, referring to the direct and indirectlegislative elections in September. According to The Macau Post Daily, Zhang made the comments while speaking to about 100 secondary school pupils who were visiting […]
The Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) still hasn’t worked out the details of the exact locations of four tourist walking routes which will be launched by October, MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said Thursday. She made the comments on the sidelines of the Student Orientation Ceremony of the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) […]
The Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Monday that rising residential rents contributed to last month’s inflation rate of 5.31 percent year-on-year. However, the bureau did not say by how much the rental rates were up last month, merely saying that the composite consumer price index (CPI) of housing and fuels rose 8.91 percent. A […]
The new campus of the University of Macau (UM) on Hengqin Island in southern Guangdong Province was handed over to Macaugovernment on Saturday, in accordance with a 2009 bill by the National People’s Congress in Beijing. In 2009, the government signed a leasing contract for the land where UM will now operate, at a cost […]
Judiciary Police (PJ) Information Technology Crimes Division Head Chan Kin Hong urged citizens yesterday to immediately notify authorities if they suspect that their phones have been tapped or their conversations with others are being illegally monitored. According to The Macau Post Daily, Chan made the appeal on the sidelines of the weekly open-air Macau Forum […]
The penalty for Internet crimes was in the spotlight Sunday at the weekly Macau Forum show – a one-hour open-air debate programme hosted by government broadcaster TDM – as some audience members suggested that the current punishment was not harsh enough. In the programme in Areia Preta Park, several audience members – mostly pupils – […]
Macau’s Customs Service said Thursday that its officers had seized 3,700 kg of untaxed tobacco and 2,130,000 untaxed cigarettes amounting to about 1.06 million patacas in unpaid tax. A customs spokesperson announced the haul to the media in a factory in Ilha Verde, where the untaxed tobacco and cigarettes were discovered by customs officers earlier […]
The Macau Customs Service announced Wednesday they seized about 34 kg of raw ivory disguised as 583 “chocolate bars”, with an estimated street value of about 580,000 patacas. Mak Vun In, a senior customs officer, announced the case in a special press conference held in Barra. She was quoted by The Macau Post Daily as […]
The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) is studying the development of new tourism routes in the city in order to give other alternatives to tourists that visit mainly the area near the ruins of St. Paul. “Our technicians have been walking around the historical areas, trying to see possible alternative routes to promote, so that […]
The Legislative Assembly Election Affairs Committee (CAEAL) held a press conference Tuesday to announce the locations of the 31 polling stations in September’s Legislative Assembly (AL) elections. They include the Macau Stadium for Taipa residents, Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) Service Centre in Areia Preta, the Macau Forum in Zape. The remaining polling stations are […]