The public Macau Foundation (FM) has bought a palace in Lisbon for 70 million patacas (US$ 8.75 million) from local businessman Liu Chak Wan, who is a member of its council of trustees, the Portuguese-language channel of government-owned broadcaster TDM reported Tuesday.
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The Macau Government has chosen a Hong Kong contractor to oversee and manage the project and the budget of the construction of the fourth bridge between Macau and Taipa, according to the Official Gazette Monday.
The New Macau Association (ANM) president Scott Chiang was barred from entering Hong Kong Monday and was forced to return on a ferry to Macau, after an immigration officer in the neighboring Special Administrative Region told him that he had failed to meet the requirements for entry.
Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director said Sunday that the registrations of about 14,000 vehicles have been cancelled since the beginning of the year, amounting to the total number of vehicles given up last year.
Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan said Sunday that if the central government promulgates a law on the national anthem in the future, it would also be implemented in Macau.
From January to May Macau received more than 13 million visitors, an increase of 6.3% over the same period of 2016, according to figures released on Friday by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC).
The Macau Roman Catholic diocese said in a statement that the redevelopment of the long-abandoned Catholic Centre in the city centre “will be launched soon”, adding that the revamped building will include a “pilgrimage hotel”.
A total of 13 restaurants operated without licences for three years at the Soho space of City of Dreams (COD) in Cotai, Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said Thursday, adding her office has ordered eight of them to clos
Macau’s economy is expected to grow at an average real rate of 7.8% this year and 2018, boosted by the recovery in services exports, particularly those related to gambling, according to the latest Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report.