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Gold jewellery imports top 10 billion patacas in 2014

Gold jewellery imports top 10 billion patacas in 2014

Macau’s gold jewellery imports rose six percent year-on-year to 10.2 billion patacas last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Friday. Gold jewellery, the city’s second import item after food and beverages combined, accounted for 11.4 percent of the total value of imports last year. Watch imports rose 22.2 percent to 7.9 billion […]
Hotel guests rise only 0.4 pct last year

Hotel guests rise only 0.4 pct last year

Macau’s number of hotel guests rose a mere 0.4 percent to 10.7 million last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Friday. Hotel’s average occupancy rate stood at 86.5 percent, up 3.4 percentage points. At the end of last year, the city’s 98 hotels and guesthouses provided a total of 28,000 guestrooms, up […]
Macau introduces new app showing waiting times for health centres

Macau introduces new app showing waiting times for health centres

The Health Bureau (SSM) announced Friday that it has implemented new measures to reduce waiting times in public health centres, private hospitals and private clinics subsidised by the government, in which it introduced a new mobile app so that users can check the latest updates on their queues so that patients can more easily decide […]
Lawmakers strive to pass animal protection bill in August

Lawmakers strive to pass animal protection bill in August

The legislature’s 1st Standing Committee President Kwan Tsui Hang said Wednesday that she and her fellow committee members were working hard to scrutinise the government’s animal protection bill, adding that they would do their best to finalise their discussions about the bill so that it can be submitted to a plenary session for an article-by-article […]
Macau ranks 9th in Asia-Pacific in “economic freedom”

Macau ranks 9th in Asia-Pacific in “economic freedom”

Macau ranks ninth in the Asia-Pacific region in terms of economic freedom, down two places from last year, according to the 2015 report from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative US think tank based in Washington DC. Among 42 regional economies, Macau thus ranks only behind Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea […]
Imported workers account for 42 pct of Macau’s labour force

Imported workers account for 42 pct of Macau’s labour force

Non-resident workers accounted for 42 percent of Macau’s total workforce at the end of last year, according to official figures released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) and Human Resources Office (GRH) this week. The number of imported workers reached 170,346 at the end of last month, up 23.6 percent year-on-year. The city’s total […]
Beijing backs Macau’s proposal for 13th 5-Year Plan: Chui Sai On

Beijing backs Macau’s proposal for 13th 5-Year Plan: Chui Sai On

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Tuesday that the leaders of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SATCM), the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) have all agreed to provide assistance and support to Macau regarding the direction of its development in the nation’s 13th Five-Year Plan. […]
Senior official meets Macau’s security chief

Senior official meets Macau’s security chief

China’s security chief Meng Jianzhu called on security forces in the country’s Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) to contribute to national security, the region’s lasting prosperity and stability on Tuesday. Meng, head of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks while meeting with […]
TCM set to drive Macau’s diversification: Beijing

TCM set to drive Macau’s diversification: Beijing

State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SATCM) Commissioner Wang Guoqiang said Monday that as the mainland has created a favourable environment to develop traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as an industry and as Macau is opening up new development opportunities, TCM was set to become an important area to drive Macau’s economic diversification. Wang, who also […]
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