Macau’s composite consumer price index (CPI) rose a mere 1.65 per cent year-on-year last month, a further decrease of 0.43 per centage points from the 2.08 per cent growth in July, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement on Wednesday. The statement attributed the increase mainly to higher rentals for parking spaces […]
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Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) Hospital Vice President Edward Lai Cheuck Seen on Monday urged the government to integrate medical resources across the city’s three hospitals. Lai made the suggestion while speaking to reporters on the private university’s campus where he attended a ceremony in which the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh […]
Holy House Mercy (SCMM) President António José de Freitas said on Monday that the government had shown “no respect at all” to the charitable association when it suddenly announced that it would move its public notary office in the building to another private property. Freitas made the angry re-marks while speaking to reporters on the […]
SJM Executive Director and Chief Administrative Officer Angela Leong On Kei said on Monday that about 30 gaming tables would be enough for the company’s Casino Jai Alai that is set to reopen by the end of the year. Leong made the comments while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a business matching session […]
The fall in Macau exports of services relating to games of fortune should reach its lowest point this year, and the economy as a whole will contract 5.9 per cent, in real terms, according to Economist intelligent Unit (EIU). The growth rate of gross domestic product will reverse the downward trend registered since 2014, when […]
The baby panda twins locally born to papa “Hoi Hoi” and mummy “Sam Sam” (“Hoi Sam” meaning happiness in Chinese) have officially been named “Kin Kin” and “Hong Hong”, which means “healthy” when combined as “Kin Hong” in Chinese. The names were chosen by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) from a total of […]
A public tender for the architectural design of the new Central Library, downtown Macau, will probably be open at the end of the year or beginning of 2017, according to the Cultural Affairs Bureau’s (IC) director, Guilherme Ung Vai Meng, the Portuguese news Lusa reported. A previous public tender for the library, in 2008, was […]
The Chief Executive of Macau, Chui Sai On, said in Lisbon that the government plans to open a service centre to link companies from China and the Portuguese-speaking countries and promote economic cooperation, according to the Macau government information Bureau. “The Government will build a service platform complex for economic and trade cooperation between China […]
US casino magnet Sheldon Adelson said on Tuesday he was interested in building even more integrated resorts in Macau now that he has completed the development of all six plots of land he was granted by the government.