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Spending on Sino-Lusophone culture week cut by 9 per cent

Spending on Sino-Lusophone culture week cut by 9 per cent

The budget for the 8th China and Portuguese-speaking Countries Cultural Week opening next week is around 8 million patacas, about 9 per cent lower than the previous year, in response to the government’s policy to cut-back on public spending, according to one of the officials preparing the annual event. The event will last from October 24 […]
Ex-Macau Transport Bureau official gets 12 and a half years for graft 

Ex-Macau Transport Bureau official gets 12 and a half years for graft 

  The former chief of the Transport Bureau’s (DSAT) Division of Transport Management, Lou Ngai Wa, was sentenced on Monday to 12 and half years in prison, with a 36,000 patacas fine for his involvement in a public car park management corruption case which took place between 2012 and 2015. Lou was convicted of corruption, abuse […]
Macau government bans 5 dog breeds and other animals

Macau government bans 5 dog breeds and other animals

  Tibetan Mastiffs, Filas Brasileiros, (Brazilian Mastiff), Dogos Argentinos, (Argentine Mastiffs), Tosas (Japanese Mastiffs) and Pit Bull Terriers and their cross-breeds have been banned by the government as part of the Animal Protection Law, according to an executive order published by the Official Gazette (BO) on Tuesday. The order took effect on Wednesday. The executive order is […]
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 […]
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