The baby panda twins locally born to papa “Hoi Hoi” and mummy “Sam Sam” (“Hoi Sam” meaning happiness in Chinese) have officially been named “Kin Kin” and “Hong Hong”, which means “healthy” when combined as “Kin Hong” in Chinese. The names were chosen by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) from a total of […]
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A public tender for the architectural design of the new Central Library, downtown Macau, will probably be open at the end of the year or beginning of 2017, according to the Cultural Affairs Bureau’s (IC) director, Guilherme Ung Vai Meng, the Portuguese news Lusa reported. A previous public tender for the library, in 2008, was […]
Samples of mooncakes from a local hotel and a Hong Kong-based bakery were found to have excessive levels of a carcinogenic chemical, according to a statement released by the government on Friday. The statement said that 8.43 microgrammes per kilo of the carcinogenic chemical aflatoxin B1 were found in a sample of mooncakes from Pousada […]
The government has authorised The Parisian to install 150 gaming tables until over three phases until 2018, Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said on Saturday. Leong, whose portfolio oversees the gaming industry, made the remarks on the sidelines of a public function, responding to reporters’ questions. According to Leong, Sands’ The […]
The Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture has shelved its controversial plan to open a Portuguese restaurant in one of the five mansions in the Taipa-Houses Museum complex, according to a statement by the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) on Thursday. The statement said an inter-departmental working group under the purview of the secretariat had […]
The government spent four billion patacas on leasing office space in private properties for its bureaus and other public entities between 2004 and 2014, the Commission of Audit (CA) said in a report yesterday. The commission criticised the Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) for being responsible for the dilemma by failing to plan […]
Construction to turn the heritage-protected Old Courthouse in Nam Van into the city’s new central library, a project estimated to cost about 900 million patacas not including the “detailed design” costs, is due to start in 2019, Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Guilherme Ung Vai Meng said on Tuesday. Ung made the comments during a […]
The number of people visiting the Taipa-Houses Museum area was expected to rise 10 to 15 percent after the five mansions there have been renovated, Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said on Monday. She made the remarks while addressing a press conference headed by Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President […]
The 4th Macau International Travel (Industry) Expo will start next month, with the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) being its main organiser for the first time. MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes made the announcement on Thursday during a press conference about the upcoming fair. The expo, co-organised by the Macau Government Tourist Office […]