Macao’s imports of food and beverages fell by 26.2% year-on-year to MOP 6.68 billion (US$835 million) in the first eight months of the year.
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Macao’s 38 casinos last month recorded their best gross gaming revenue since March, reaching MOP 2.2 billion (US$277 million).
Macao will give better play to its platform role in serving the nation’s “dual-cycle” development pattern that is based on a domestic and an international economic cycle, but with the domestic cycle being the mainstay, Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng said.
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao Ieong U has ordered the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) to review its granting of subsidies to local schools for various projects over the past five years, and submit a report to her within three months.
Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said on Wednesday that for the time being the conditions were still not ripe for the mutual recognition of the Macao Health Code and the health codes of more provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the mainland, as their respective governments were “not keen” on the matter, aside from technical issues.
Local residents accounted for 67.4% of hotel guests last month, a 137% year-on-year increase to 124,000.
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.