Local residents accounted for 67.4% of hotel guests last month, a 137% year-on-year increase to 124,000.
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50 shops in Taipa and Coloane have joined the Economic Services Bureau (DSE) second-phase “special features shop programme”, meaning now altogether 100 shops and restaurants are participating in the scheme.
The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested a former vice-principal for allegedly cheating the government out of MOP 20 million in subsidies several years ago when she was at the helm of a local school, in suspected collusion with an engineering company, for the installation of new facilities and the launch of new courses at the school, most of which never got off the ground.
Twelve men were detained for questioning by the Judiciary Police (PJ) on Monday for sharing a child porn video on Facebook, and 10 of them admitted to committing the crime.
The local government has raised from today the quota for its nucleic acid testing (NAT) scheme’s online appointment system to 19,000 people per day.
Non-local students enrolled in Macao’s higher education institutions are also entitled to the government’s facemask purchase scheme from today, when the scheme’s 22nd round starts.
The Macao government is confident that the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines will be delivered to Macao early next year.
The 7th Macau Industrial Product Show will have 182 booths and over 160 companies will be joining the event, MacExpo Exhibition Co. Ltd., the main organiser, announced in a press conference at the Industrial Association of Macao’s headquarters in Rua do Dr Pedro José Lobo on Monday.
A smart milk tea vending machine developed by University of Macau (UM) students stood out from 1,210 shortlisted entries at the 16th “Challenge Cup” National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Contest and won the first prize, the public university said in a statement on Monday.