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Police pledge more officers to tackle casino crimes

Police pledge more officers to tackle casino crimes

Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Chau Wai Kuong said Tuesday that once more casinos start operating in Cotai more PJ officers will be deployed to the PJ branch there, adding that a space in the branch has already been set aside to set up an office for the officers investigating gaming-related crimes. Chau also said that […]
Lawmaker urges UM to come clean on sexual harassment

Lawmaker urges UM to come clean on sexual harassment

Indirectly-elected lawmaker Chan Hong, who heads the Macau Chinese Educators’ Association, urged the public University of Macau (UM) Monday to speed up its investigation into several alleged cases of sexual harassment involving staff members and then release the findings. She also said new legislation on indecent assault and sexual harassment should be in place to […]
Over 240,000 vehicles clog city’s streets

Over 240,000 vehicles clog city’s streets

Macau’s number of licensed motor vehicles reached 240,107 at the end of last year, up 5.3 percent from a year earlier, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Monday. Scooters and motorcycles accounted for 52 percent of the total number of motor vehicles. The number of new registrations of motor vehicles rose 6.4 percent year-on-year […]
Airport handles 5.5 million passengers in 2014

Airport handles 5.5 million passengers in 2014

Macau’s airport handled 5.48 million passengers last year, up nine percent from 2013. The figure was released on the sidelines of a Spring Festival dinner hosted by Macau International Airport Company (CAM) on Friday. The number of aircraft movements (takeoffs and touchdowns) rose 7.4 percent to 52,000. The figure included 2,791 business jet movements, up […]
Gold jewellery imports top 10 billion patacas in 2014

Gold jewellery imports top 10 billion patacas in 2014

Macau’s gold jewellery imports rose six percent year-on-year to 10.2 billion patacas last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Friday. Gold jewellery, the city’s second import item after food and beverages combined, accounted for 11.4 percent of the total value of imports last year. Watch imports rose 22.2 percent to 7.9 billion […]
Hotel guests rise only 0.4 pct last year

Hotel guests rise only 0.4 pct last year

Macau’s number of hotel guests rose a mere 0.4 percent to 10.7 million last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Friday. Hotel’s average occupancy rate stood at 86.5 percent, up 3.4 percentage points. At the end of last year, the city’s 98 hotels and guesthouses provided a total of 28,000 guestrooms, up […]
Macau introduces new app showing waiting times for health centres

Macau introduces new app showing waiting times for health centres

The Health Bureau (SSM) announced Friday that it has implemented new measures to reduce waiting times in public health centres, private hospitals and private clinics subsidised by the government, in which it introduced a new mobile app so that users can check the latest updates on their queues so that patients can more easily decide […]
Lawmakers strive to pass animal protection bill in August

Lawmakers strive to pass animal protection bill in August

The legislature’s 1st Standing Committee President Kwan Tsui Hang said Wednesday that she and her fellow committee members were working hard to scrutinise the government’s animal protection bill, adding that they would do their best to finalise their discussions about the bill so that it can be submitted to a plenary session for an article-by-article […]
Macau ranks 9th in Asia-Pacific in “economic freedom”

Macau ranks 9th in Asia-Pacific in “economic freedom”

Macau ranks ninth in the Asia-Pacific region in terms of economic freedom, down two places from last year, according to the 2015 report from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative US think tank based in Washington DC. Among 42 regional economies, Macau thus ranks only behind Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea […]
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