The Macau Customs Service said in a statement Thursday that its officers had seized about 100 kilograms of pangolin scales at the Taipa Ferry Terminal in Pac On.
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Secretary for Economy and Finance Leong Vai Tac said Thursday that local young professionals who are working and studying in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) region should grab the opportunities available to develop themselves, and contribute to the country’s development.
The Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) said Thursday that it expects the construction of a government office building on a plot in Zape to get off the ground in the first quarter of next year.
Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said Wednesday that Macau’s role in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) will advance the development of the Pan-Pearl River Delta (PPRD) region.
Central District Community Service Consultative Council member Luo Ping said Wednesday that the government needed to bring back the normal public swimming pool opening times as well as upgrade the quality of the service provided.
The Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) said in a statement Tuesday that the renovation project to turn a building in Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida into a Government Headquarters branch office will take up to 326 days.
Representatives from the Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. Tuesday told the elderly living at an old people’s home in Coloane and their family members that the former racetrack’s 533 greyhounds will be their “temporary neighbours” until they have gone through the adoption procedures to be flown out of Macau to their new homes overseas.
The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a 16-year-old schoolboy on Monday for having sex with a 13-year-old schoolgirl last month
The Commission on the Defence of National Security of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) will start operating next month, the local government announced Monday.
Several hundred casino workers – mostly dealers – Monday took part in a demonstration organised by the New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union (New Macau Gaming Staff Rights Association), calling for the government’s stricter enforcement of the anti-smoking law in local casinos.
Macau’s imports of mobile phone rose 93.1 percent to 4.08 billion patacas in the first seven months of the year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement.
Dozens of shipping containers with cages fitted inside were seen Sunday being installed on cleared land that used to be an overgrown field located adjacent to an old people’s home in Coloane.