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Macau has nearly 2,300 eateries and bars

Macau has nearly 2,300 eateries and bars

Macau had 2,284 eateries and “watering holes” at the end of last year, 172 more than a year earlier, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Wednesday. According to the bureau, local-style cafés and congee and noodle shops accounted for 42 per cent of the total number of restaurants and other kinds of eating […]
Japan wins Macao International Fireworks contest

Japan wins Macao International Fireworks contest

The Japanese team from Marutamaya Ogatsu Fireworks Co., won the 28th Macao International Fireworks Display Contest that ended on Saturday. The competition was held on September 3, 10, 15, 24 and October 1, featuring 10 teams from China, Canada, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand and the United Kingdom. China and Romania dedicated their last […]
Macau government to celebrate panda twins’ 100-day birthday

Macau government to celebrate panda twins’ 100-day birthday

The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) will hold a special 100-day birthday party for the locally born baby panda twins Kin Kin and Hong Hong on Monday in Coloane’s Seac Pai Van Park, according to a statement released by the bureau on Friday. Kin Kin and Hong Hong, the twins’ names in Cantonese, means […]
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge deck is completed

Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge deck is completed

The final piece of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge – a 35-tonne expansion joint – was placed last Tuesday, announced in Zhuhai city the director of the Bridge Authority, Zhu Yongling. Zhu said that placement of this final piece means that construction work on the bridge, which has a deck 22.9 kilometres long, is now completed. […]
LRT in Taipa to start operating in 2019 says Secretary Raimundo do Rosário

LRT in Taipa to start operating in 2019 says Secretary Raimundo do Rosário

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário said on Wednesday he was confident that the Taipa section of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) will start running in 2019. Rosario made the upbeat remark while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a plaque unveiling ceremony that marked the official re-opening of the Carmo […]
Macau jobless rate stays at 1.9 per cent

Macau jobless rate stays at 1.9 per cent

Macau’s officially estimated unemployment rate remained at 1.9 per cent in the Statistics and Census Bureau’s (DSEC) June-August employment survey period compared with the May-July period. The bureau said in a statement on Tuesday that the rate also stayed unchanged from the same period last year. The city’s total labour force in June-August amounted to […]
Venezuelan nurse caught in Macau with cocaine worth 12 million patacas

Venezuelan nurse caught in Macau with cocaine worth 12 million patacas

S4.1 kilo-grammes of cocaine hidden in the lining of her suitcase, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said. According to the spokesperson, the drugs have a street value of about 12 million patacas. After receiving a tip-off that traffickers were planning to smug-gle drugs into the city hidden in the linings of their suitcases, the police […]
Auditors pan ‘insufficient’ management of Macau public leisure spaces  

Auditors pan ‘insufficient’ management of Macau public leisure spaces  

The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) fails to properly maintain and make the necessary repairs to the city’s public parks and recreational areas so that many of them are in a bad state which can be a safety and health danger to its users and is detrimental to Macau’s image, the Commission of Audit […]
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