Two male defendants, one from Hong Kong and the other from Macau, were Tuesday sentenced to eight and half years behind bars each for their involvement in the city’s first “ice factory”. The trial which started last month involved 4 male defendants. Two of the Macau defendants were acquitted for lack of evidence. According to […]
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The Audit Commission says in a report that the government’s now defunct office that prepared Macau’s participation in the 2010 Shanghai World Expo has failed to provide a full explanation about the 34.4 million pataca difference between the actual amount of money it paid for moveable assets and the respective amount listed in the government’s […]
Macau Tuesday endured its strongest typhoon, with wind speeds of 144 km/hour at its height, in 13 years, resulting in 16 minors injuries and 254 incidents, the government said. It was also the first time this year that the No. 9 warning signal – the second highest – was hoisted since the establishment of the […]
Macau hoisted today its first No. 9 typhoon signal when Vicente passed near the territory with winds over 180 km per hour. The No 9 signal was hoisted at 2:15 a.m., for the first time since 1999, when Vicente closed to Macau territory during the night. Monday at about 7:00 p.m, the Meteorological and Geographical […]
Macau’s number of visitor arrivals dropped 3.4 percent year-on-year to 2.106 million in June, according to official statistics from the government. June’s figure was the lowest of any month since January last year. Same-day visitors accounted for 49.4 percent of last month’s total number of visitor arrivals. Visitors’ average length of stay decreased by 0.1 […]
The Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) said Sunday that it had not yet set a timetable to resume construction of a tunnel that will connect Cotai and the University of Macau’s future campus on Zhuhai’s Henqin Island, after part of the Hengqin section collapsed on Thursday night. A spokesperson said to the Macau Post Daily that […]
Troubled Macau Cable TV said Wednesday that it planned to sue the government for failing to protect its rights and interests which are supposed to be guaranteed under the conditions laid out in the 15-year monopoly concession agreement signed with Macau’s then Portuguese administration in 1999. The company also said it would “fight for” the […]
The government said Monday that a human resources database, which is currently under preparation, would help local students and employers understand the supply of, and demand for the city’s tertiary education graduates. Tertiary Education Services Office (GAES) Director Sou Chio Fai made the remark to reporters on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the […]
Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said in Beijing Monday that there was still no concrete date for the launch of 24-hour immigration and customs land-border checkpoints between Macau and Guangdong, The Macau Post Daily reports today. However, Chui said that for the time being the operating hours of the present checkpoints would be extended. […]
Chief Executive (CE) Fernando Chui Sai On arrived in Beijing Sunday to discuss with the central government the construction of a 24-hour cross-border pedestrian bridge between the northern tip of the Macau Peninsula and the Gongbei district in Zhuhai. The plan to build a 450-metre long cross-border pedestrian bridge was first announced by the government […]
Macau’s 97 hotels – including hostels – recorded 3.7 million guests in the first five months, an increase of 12.7 percent on the same period last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. The average occupancy rate stood at 81.9 percent, similar to the same period a year earlier. The number of guestrooms […]
A total of 47 police cadets were rushed to the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre for emergency treatment of sunburnt heads on Wednesday, according to a statement by the Macau Public Security Forces Academy (ESFSM) quoted by The Macau Post Daily today. A government spokesperson confirmed yesterday that none of the cadets required […]