The new version of the law, passed by the legislature nearly two weeks ago, includes tougher penalties and broader categories of offence.
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The total number of guests from Macao’s biggest markets, mainland China and Hong Kong, also posted sharp increases.
Around 35,000 saplings are to be planted south of the Hac Sá Reservoir as part of an overall programme to reforest 120 acres of woods in 2023.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in loans will be made available to Brazilian companies in areas such as renewable energy and sanitary landfills.
Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, the head of the Macao Government Tourism Office, says average daily visitor totals are now at about 50 percent of their pre-pandemic levels.
Earlier modelling by researchers at the Macau University of Science and Technology projects that as many as 6,000 people a day could be getting infected.
The gaming, hospitality and restaurant trades saw the biggest increases in employment, according to the DSEC.
The Labour Affairs Bureau says it carried out thousands of inspections in 2022 and imposed penalties in 91 cases for unsafe working conditions.
The move is bound to upset Beijing, which has been investing billions of dollars in Portugal in sectors from energy to banking and insurance.