Macao’s gross domestic product (GDP) dropped by 63.8% year-on-year in real terms in the third quarter of this year.
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The Legislative Assembly passed the outline of a government-initiated bill on fire safety in buildings and certain outdoor venues, proposing to give the Fire Services Bureau law enforcement powers to fine violators of fire safety regulations.
The Legislative Assembly (AL) on Thursday passed the outline of a government-initiated bill regulating the operation of the city’s wet markets, which proposes that residents who want to run a stall will have to bid for a licence, a change from the current practice in which available stalls are simply allocated through a lucky draw.
At Thursday’s opening ceremony of the International Environmental Crisis Management Forum and Exhibition (IECMF), Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) President Benson Lau Wai Meng said in a speech that Macao’s expo business was gradually making a comeback.
A 60-year-old local man who tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease on Sunday had been to a massage parlour in the mainland during the incubation period.
A man was arrested on Wednesday for stealing more than 40 designer handbags and clothing accessories worth HK$800,000 from a mini-storage lock-up in Avenida de Venceslau de Morais on Monday.
A hairstylist from the mainland was arrested on Wednesday in Taipa for stabbing and robbing a woman of HK$186,000 in a hotel guestroom in Rua de Cantão in Zape earlier that day.
The government expects to start constructing a high-rise rental housing project for senior citizens in an area of Plot P in Areia Preta district by the end of this year.
Melco Resorts and Entertainment has launched a “Made-in-Macao” initiative to support local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by promoting new local production and manufacturing industries.