The Judiciary Police (PJ) busted two drug trafficking cases on Tuesday, involving four Hong Kong men and a woman selling cocaine in Macau’s night entertainment venues, and a local woman smuggling drugs through the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB).
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A bus service between the Macau checkpoint of the Hong-Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge and Hong Kong’s international airport came into service on Monday.
The Hong Kong government has told its local counterpart that it is aiming for a bus service between the Macau checkpoint of the Hong-Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge and Hong Kong’s airport to come into service in the middle of next month.
Macau’s number of visitor arrivals last month rose a mere 1.8% year-on-year to 3.2 million.
Allowing local private vehicles to travel across the Greater Bay Area via the Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau intended to boost the underused mega bridge.
Macau Government Tourism Office expects Macau’s number of visitor arrivals this year reach almost 40 million.
The government has drastically reduced the permit fee, from 30,000 patacas last year to just 1,000 patacas this year.
Gongbei Customs District said that parallel traders between Shenzhen and Hong Kong are shifting their smuggling activities to the Gongbei land-border checkpoint and the Zhuhai checkpoint at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge.
Macau will hold 600 quotas for vehicles; 500 of the quotas will have a validity of 1 year and the remaining 100 quotas will have a validity of six months.