The authorities will ban all unmanned aircraft activity over the peninsula during this year’s three-day Macau Grand Prix, which begins tomorrow, to ensure that the event will take place in a safe environment.
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In the past 10 months, 1.06 million passengers have arrived in Macao by air with a 20% increase in the first half of this month compared with the same period of last month.
A mainlander was arrested on Wednesday for stabbing and robbing a woman of HK$183,000 (MOP 188,600) in a hotel guestroom in Rua de Cantão in Zape on Wednesday, according to a statement from the Judiciary Police (PJ) on Wednesday.
A local waiter was arrested last week for patting a 14-year-old local schoolgirl’s buttocks in Avenida de Horta e Costa last Monday, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Cheong Kam Fai said at a regular press conference on Wednesday.
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng said on Tuesday that only after Covid-19 vaccines are available can Macao’s economy and employment situation improve.
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng said that the government has decided to go ahead with the Macau Grand Prix (MGP) this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic because it already decided last year to hold the annual motor-racing event in 2020 and signed agreements with the relevant contractors at that time.
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng said that a 5G network covering the whole city would need an investment of over MOP 3 billion.
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng pointed out that according to its standards, the central government would only classify Hong Kong as a Covid-19 low-risk area if no new local cases have been confirmed for 14 consecutive days.
A total of 2,542 building units and parking spaces were purchased and sold in the third quarter as per stamp duty records, a decrease of 3.6 per cent quarter-to-quarter.