Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said on Wednesday that the proposed amendments to the personnel regulations of the Macau Public Security Forces will no longer refer to their staff members as “militarised” personnel. Wong made the remarks on the sidelines of the swearing-in of Cheng Fong Meng as the new director of the Correctional […]
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Local gaming operators have applied for 73 more smoking lounges in 21 casinos, the Health Bureau (SSM) says in a written reply to an interpellation about the matter by lawmaker-cum-unionist Ella Lei Cheng. The bureau’s response was made public on Wednesday. According to the bureau, the current number of casino smoking lounges stands at 86. […]
The 5th Ministerial Conference of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macau) will take place on 11 and 12 October 2016, said the Government Information Bureau (GCS). The conference, whose theme is “Towards Consolidation of Economic and Trade Relations between China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries: Joining Efforts for Cooperation, […]
Telecom operator CTM is giving all its broadband and fibre broadband customers unlimited data usage and slashes its tariffs from October 1, the company announced on Tuesday. CTM’s CEO Vandy Poon Fuk Hei said in a press conference at the telecom’s head office in Taipa that despite the fact that all CTM customers will have […]
The initial design project for the fourth bridge connecting the peninsula and Taipa will cost over 75 million patacas, according to the Official Gazette (BO). The gazette showed on Monday that the government has granted the initial design project to Beijing-based CCCC Highway Consultants Company Limited for a fee of 75.19 million patacas. The same […]
The government has authorised The Parisian to install 150 gaming tables until over three phases until 2018, Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said on Saturday. Leong, whose portfolio oversees the gaming industry, made the remarks on the sidelines of a public function, responding to reporters’ questions. According to Leong, Sands’ The […]
After Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong recently confirmed cases of the Zika virus, the director of the local Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), Lam Chong, has warned that the chance of Macau getting imported Zika cases is “quite high”. Lam made the comment on the sidelines of a ses sion about the Zika […]
The Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture has shelved its controversial plan to open a Portuguese restaurant in one of the five mansions in the Taipa-Houses Museum complex, according to a statement by the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) on Thursday. The statement said an inter-departmental working group under the purview of the secretariat had […]
Macau’s gaming revenue registered a rise of 1.1 per cent year-on-year in August, reversing the 26-month slump of the industry. Macau’s gaming sector collected about 18.8 billion patacas (about US$ 2.4 billion) in August, up 1.1 per cent from the previous year, according to the data released by the special administrative region’s Gaming Inspection and […]