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Macau jobless rate stays at 1.9 per cent

Macau jobless rate stays at 1.9 per cent

Macau’s officially estimated unemployment rate remained at 1.9 per cent in the Statistics and Census Bureau’s (DSEC) June-August employment survey period compared with the May-July period. The bureau said in a statement on Tuesday that the rate also stayed unchanged from the same period last year. The city’s total labour force in June-August amounted to […]
Venezuelan nurse caught in Macau with cocaine worth 12 million patacas

Venezuelan nurse caught in Macau with cocaine worth 12 million patacas

S4.1 kilo-grammes of cocaine hidden in the lining of her suitcase, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said. According to the spokesperson, the drugs have a street value of about 12 million patacas. After receiving a tip-off that traffickers were planning to smug-gle drugs into the city hidden in the linings of their suitcases, the police […]
Macau government to pay 1 billion patacas to new contractor for LRT depot

Macau government to pay 1 billion patacas to new contractor for LRT depot

The government has granted China Construction and Engineering (Macau) Company Limited the contract for the construction of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) depot in Cotai, for 1.07 billion patacas, according to Monday’s Official Gazette (BO). Earlier this year, the government said it had terminated the construction contract with the depot’s original contractor. The government said […]
Auditors pan ‘insufficient’ management of Macau public leisure spaces  

Auditors pan ‘insufficient’ management of Macau public leisure spaces  

The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) fails to properly maintain and make the necessary repairs to the city’s public parks and recreational areas so that many of them are in a bad state which can be a safety and health danger to its users and is detrimental to Macau’s image, the Commission of Audit […]
Macau inflation further slows to 1.65 per cent in August

Macau inflation further slows to 1.65 per cent in August

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 […]
MUST hospital calls for medical resources integration

MUST hospital calls for medical resources integration

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 […]
Macau’s Holy House of Mercy slams ‘disrespectful’ government

Macau’s Holy House of Mercy slams ‘disrespectful’ government

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 […]
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