Macau’s number of visitor arrivals in May rose 5.2 percent year on year to 2.7 million year with the daily average visitor arrivals being 87,250.
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The infectious disease centre next to the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre is set to get off the ground in the first quarter of 2019. Previously, construction of the 12-storey centre was slated to start in the third quarter of 2016.
Over 500 illegally imported pharmaceutical products from three shops selling cosmetics and beauty products have been seized.
The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) announced Tuesday that it will host the city’s first Arts and Cultural Festival involving China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (PSCs) later this year, with the aim of promoting regular cultural exchanges between the two sides.
A taxi driver has been arrested for locking four US passengers in his taxi last Friday night, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lun said during a regular press conference Tuesday.
The Chief Executive Chui Sai On told journalists, Monday that the government decided to shelve the revision of the bill on road traffic rules, because of the opinions raised in the society.
Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) official Carol Duh Chia-fen, who heads the council’s Department of Hong Kong and Macau Affairs, said Thursday that the government-appointed council is currently in talks with the island’s immigration department to give Macau residents the choice whether to use their Portuguese or Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) passports to enter Taiwan.
Well-known Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang briefed local government officials Thursday on his work and the central government’s approach towards diplomacy and international relations.
The Macau government announced Wednesday that Macau permanent residents who are gainfully employed or running a company in Hong Kong can apply for a permit to drive their cars into the neighbouring city via the Hong-Kong-Zhuhai-Macau (HKZM) Bridge