Macao’s Catholic Cathedral will close next month for about nine months for renovation.
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The government’s urban development plans for the next 20 years were unveiled on Thursday when the public consultation document was presented by the interdepartmental group in charge of the Urban Master Plan.
The government launches a two-month public consultation today about its plan to build the “East” section of the Light Rail Transit, according to which a one-way journey will only take 15 minutes.
The Macao Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement on Thursday that between the beginning of this year and the end of last month, its officials paid 136 inspections to different construction sites, resulting in the punishment of 27 construction sites for illicitly discharging unfiltered wastewater into public sewers.
The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced on Thursday that nucleic acid tests (NATs) for the city’s about 50,000 restaurant workers will start tomorrow.
Kenny Lee Koi Ian, general manager of Seng Fung Jewellery, told reporters on Thursday that the city’s gold retail sector is expecting more sales in the second half of this year after the mainland’s travel restrictions are lifted.
Japanese casual-wear apparel company Uniqlo will open its biggest Macao shop in on 30 September close to the Ruins of St Paul’s that will for the first time in Hong Kong and Macao feature a UTme! design-your-own T-shirt service.
A haul of about 3,000 items worth about MOP 3.8 million, such as second-hand laptops and cosmetic products, were seized in Macao and Zhuhai on Tuesday after the two cities’ law enforcement agencies jointly busted an illegal parallel trading racket.
Nine men were arrested on Tuesday for conspiring to provide forged documents to defraud a local bank by applying for bogus car loans, two of which totalling HK$900,000 (MOP 926,862) were paid to the applicants.