Some local lawyers are interested in providing legal services in partnership with their mainland counterparts on Hengqin Island, Macau Lawyers Association (AAM) President Jorge Neto Valente said on Sunday. However, he was quick to add that no one had yet put the idea into practice. Heading an AAM delegation of 19 to Gansu province, Neto […]
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Macau secured its AA- rating from the international agency Fitch Ratings, despite its forecast of 16 percent economic contraction in the region this year. According to a press release issued last Friday, the evaluators expressed their belief that the territory was capable of diversifying its economy outside VIP gaming and of withstanding the structural economic […]
Macau’s casino malaise deepened in August, with gaming revenue falling a 15th straight month as the recent opening of new gambling resorts failed to rouse a return of mainland Chinese visitors over the popular school holiday season. Gross gaming revenue fell 35.5 percent to 18.6 billion patacas (USD2.3 billion), widening from July’s 34.5 percent drop, […]
Macau’s gross domestic product (GDP) dipped to its lowest since 2011 as high-stakes gamblers avoided the world’s largest casino market amid the mainland’s widening crackdown on graft and an economic slowdown. GDP tumbled 26.4 percent year-on-year in real terms in the second quarter, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement. The drop […]
Macau’s trade balance posted a 43.463 billion patacas (US$5.432 billion) deficit in the period from January through July, down 2.89 percent over the 44.760 billion recorded in the same period of 2014, indicates the Statistics and Census Service. During the first seven months of the year Macau exported products worth 6.397 billion patacas, up 10.6 […]
Local lender Banco Nacional Ultramarino (BNU) is applying to the mainland authorities to set up a branch on Hengqin Island, the Portuguese bank’s executive director Ronald Kan Cheok Kuan said on Thursday, adding that BNU was also in discussion with the University of Macau (UM) about opening a branch on its new campus on the […]
The consumer price index last month rose by 4.76 percent year-on-year to 106.13, down from 4.91 percent the preceding month, reported the Statistics and Census Service. The increase was said to be due to higher rentals for dwelling and rising costs of eating out. Compared to July 2014, notable hikes were seen in the price […]
Police have arrested 17 men and women on suspicion of credit card fraud involving the equivalent of 350 million patacas, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a special press briefing on Tuesday. The spokesperson said the police recently received a tip-off that several jewellery shops and electronics shops in ZAPE were using POS (point […]
A Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said on Monday a man lost over 6,000 yuan to a suspicious app after it had gained access to his bank account through his phone. The spokesperson told a regular Monday’s press briefing the victim told the police that after connecting to a local WiFi network in a public place […]