Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said late last week that the government would not simply renew the city’s current gaming concessions and sub-concessions when they expire, but that it would instead launch a new bidding process.
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The Social Affairs Bureau (IAS) will publish its first report in September about its findings on domestic violence cases, Daniel Tang Yuk Wa, who heads the bureau’s Family and Community Services Department, said on Sunday.
The huge Pac On Ferry Terminal in Taipa, which was officially inaugurated on Thursday, will start operating on June 1 when all the operations of the adjacent Taipa Temporary Ferry Terminal will be transferred to the new terminal, the Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) announced.
The Judiciary Police arrested 11 men and women from the mainland on Tuesday for alleged membership of a loan-sharking gang which for six months had offered casino patrons gambling loans.
The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) is planning to build a number of cycle tracks on the western waterfront of Cotai, to connect them to the existing cycle tracks on the western coast of Taipa and the one near the Lotus Flower Bridge, with the aim of forming a 6-kilometre-long cycle track from the northwest of Taipa extending to the northwest of Coloane.
Macau is set to host the 47th Skål Asian Area Congress in 2018, an announcement that was made at the recent 13th China Expo Forum for International Co-operation (CEFCO 2017).
The long-awaited new ferry terminal on Taipa will open tomorrow according to an invitation sent by the Marine and Water Bureau.
Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) Deputy Chairman Francis Lui Yiu Tung called for an open border between Macau and Hengqin Island to promote tourism in both places.
Most members of the Macau Lawyers Association are opposed to the idea of reactivating an agreement between the association and its counterpart in Portugal allowing lawyers registered there to work in Macau without taking a local examination.