Menu
Subscribe
Menu
Subscribe
Menu

News

Macau visitors drop 3.6 percent in Q1, down 13 percent in March

Macau visitors drop 3.6 percent in Q1, down 13 percent in March

Macau recorded 7.4 million visitor arrivals in the first quarter, down 3.6 percent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Monday. Same day visitors accounted for 56.6 percent of the total number of visitor arrivals in the first three months. Mainlanders and Hongkongers accounted for 67.8 percent and 20.3 percent of all visitors […]
EU calls for more involvement for local population in choice of Macau executive

EU calls for more involvement for local population in choice of Macau executive

The European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, has in its latest annual report on Macau called for the authorities there to involve the local population more in the choice of the region’s chief executive, even though Macau’s Basic Law does not provide for the introduction of universal suffrage. “Macau differs from Hong Kong in […]
Macau denies rumour about killing of 4 US assassins

Macau denies rumour about killing of 4 US assassins

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak Monday shot down a rumour circulating on the Internet that four US assassins were killed in a firefight in Macau in 2013. Wong made the denial on the sidelines of a ceremony marking the opening of a fire station on the University of Macau’s (UM) Hengqin campus. Several mainland […]
Prices in Macau increase 5.10 percent in March

Prices in Macau increase 5.10 percent in March

Prices in Macau rose 5.10 percent in March year-on-year driven by the increase in income from house rental prices and the cost of meals bought away from home, reported the Statistics and Census Bureau. Year-on-year the most significant increases were in the indices of Housing and Fuel (+10.58 percent), Health (+5.71 percent) and Food and […]
3-year-old dies of flu-related illness

3-year-old dies of flu-related illness

A 3-year-old local boy who had epilepsy died earlier this month due to complications caused by influenza, the Health Bureau (SSM) said during a press conference at the Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre on Saturday. Disease Prevention and Control Centre Director Lam Chong said the boy, who suffered from congenital developmental delay, was chronically […]
Macau hopes to digitalise patient records next year

Macau hopes to digitalise patient records next year

The government will look into starting an electronic patient record system next year, Carlos Leong Kei Hong, who heads the Health Bureau’s (SSM) Organisation and IT Department, said Thursday. Leong made the remark on the sidelines of the launch ceremony of Kiang Wu Hospital’s new digital system. Leong said that bidding for the system was […]
Leong Vai Tac shows support for Hengqin and the Guangdong Free Trade Area

Leong Vai Tac shows support for Hengqin and the Guangdong Free Trade Area

The Secretary for Economy and Finance, Leong Vai Tac led a delegation to Hengqin Island to participate in the opening ceremony of the Hengqin area of Guangdong Free Trade Zone, on Thursday. The “Protocol between the City of Zhuhai People’s Government and the Macau Special Administrative Region Government on the establishment of mechanism Zhuhai-Macau cooperation […]
Two DSAT personnel caught for US$2 million in bribes

Two DSAT personnel caught for US$2 million in bribes

The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) announced Thursday a case in which a division chief of the Transport Bureau (DSAT) and one his lower-ranking staff are suspected of having taken bribes totalling about 16 million patacas (US$2 million) for helping three management firms to be granted over 60 procurement contracts for the running of public car […]
Macau plans to strengthen cooperation with the Chinese province of Fujian

Macau plans to strengthen cooperation with the Chinese province of Fujian

Chief Executive Chui Sai On, Monday in Fuzhou announced the creation of a working team, headed by the Secretary for the Economy and Finance, to discuss the strengthening of cooperation ties with the province of Fujian. Chui, who was speaking during a meeting with the governor of Fujian Province, Su Shulin, recalled that cooperation with […]
«‹ 1124 1125 1126 1127›»