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Macau government grants The Parisian 150 tables

Macau government grants The Parisian 150 tables

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 […]
Macau has ‘high chance’ of imported Zika cases

Macau has ‘high chance’ of imported Zika cases

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 […]
Macau government shelves eatery plan for Taipa-Houses Museum

Macau government shelves eatery plan for Taipa-Houses Museum

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 industry reverses slump in August

Macau’s gaming industry reverses slump in August

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 […]
Macau government rents offices for 4 billion patacas in 10 years

Macau government rents offices for 4 billion patacas in 10 years

The government spent four billion patacas on leasing office space in private properties for its bureaus and other public entities between 2004 and 2014, the Commission of Audit (CA) said in a report yesterday. The commission criticised the Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) for being responsible for the dilemma by failing to plan […]
Car and motorbike imports drop 56 per cent in Jan-July

Car and motorbike imports drop 56 per cent in Jan-July

Macau’s imports of cars and motorcycles dropped by 56.4 per cent year-on-year to 700 million patacas, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. Mobile phone imports fell by 47.4 per cent to 2.5 billion patacas. Imports of watches dropped by 42.8 per cent to 2.2 billion patacas. Gold jewellery imports decreased by 27.9 per […]
Premier Li to attend Sino-Luso forum in Macau

Premier Li to attend Sino-Luso forum in Macau

Prime Minister Li Keqiang is slated to attend the 5th Ministerial Conference of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries in Macau on October 10-11, the Portuguese-language radio of government-owned broadcast TDM said on Tuesday in an unsourced report. According to the report, Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa is also […]
Macau’s GDP decline slows to 7.1 per cent in Q2

Macau’s GDP decline slows to 7.1 per cent in Q2

Macau’s gross domestic product shrank by 7.1 per cent year-on-year in real terms in the second quarter of the year, showing signs of improvement compared with the first quarter, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said on Tuesday. GDP contracted by 13.3 per cent in the first quarter. A DSEC statement attributed the lower GDP […]
Macau Turbojet ferry colides with fishing boat

Macau Turbojet ferry colides with fishing boat

Hundreds of TurboJET passengers were left stranded after a high-speed ferry collided with a fishing boat off Lantau Island on Saturday night, leaving a woman injured. The vessel departed from Macau at 11:15 p.m., carrying 289 passengers and 10 crewmembers on board. The jetfoil was stranded for two hours while it underwent inspections by crewmembers […]
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