Health workers intensify efforts to trace source of BA.5.1 Omicron variant as confirmed cases reach 941 – and likely to increase; Grand Lisboa Hotel locked down after 13 cases found.
Macao government calls report full of ‘prejudice and unfounded accusations’.
Continent’s top restaurants honoured in annual list with local fine dining Cantonese restaurant recognised.
Though economic situation “remained volatile” in 2021, Macao still has one of the highest GDP per capita in the world.
Once again, blame for poor performance attributed to raft of restrictions introduced to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
The 1,600-metre line will feature two stations – one at the new Islands hospital complex – and is due to open by Christmas 2023.
The victim was robbed and killed in a Ritz Carlton hotel room by a Zhongshan resident who was arrested today by the police.
The Macau Roman Catholic diocese said in a statement that the redevelopment of the long-abandoned Catholic Centre in the city centre “will be launched soon”, adding that the revamped building will include a “pilgrimage hotel”.
Macau’s economy is expected to grow at an average real rate of 7.8% this year and 2018, boosted by the recovery in services exports, particularly those related to gambling, according to the latest Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report.
Composite consumer prices index in Macau increased by 0.95 percent year-on-year, the statistics department said on Wednesday. Composite CPI increased to 109.20 in May, “which was attributable to higher charges for eating out and outpatient services, as well as increase in tuition fees.
Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Wednesday he does not think that the UNESCO-listed Macau Historic Centre will be removed from the UNESCO World Heritage Site listing, so he doesn’t worry about the matter.
Air Macau officials are in São Paulo for a “South America Roadshow” to recruit captains for Airbus A320 aircraft, the airline said according to Macauhub.
The number of groups who have submitted nomination signatures to the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) already exceeds the number of lists who ran in the last direct election, official data showed Wednesday.
Macau’s gross gaming revenue in May rose 23.7 percent year-on-year to MOP 22.74 billion, posting a 10-month winning streak and beating analysts’ forecasts.
Macau’s retail sales for the first quarter increased 12 percent year-on-year to MOP 16.6 billion. Month-to-month, the figure was up 4.3 percent.
Macau is set to host the 47th Skål Asian Area Congress in 2018, an announcement that was made at the recent 13th China Expo Forum for International Co-operation (CEFCO 2017).
Sands China Ltd.’s (SCL) total net revenues increased 15.3 percent to US$ 1.88 billion in the first quarter of 2017, compared to US$ 1.63 billion in the first quarter of 2016.
A newborn Asian boy was discovered inside a zipped blue backpack amid a pile of rubbish in Areia Preta district early Wednesday morning.
Macau’s air quality slightly worsened last year: fewer days when air quality was “good” were recorded at a number of monitoring stations across the city last year.
Man Booker Prize finalists Madeleine Thien and Graeme Macrae Burnet are among the guest authors for the sixth edition of the Script Road – Macau Literary Festival, which will take place between March 4th to 19th.
Macau residents can apply for the government’s subsidy to scrap scooters and other kinds of vehicles with two-stroke engines starting next Wednesday until the end of June, Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) Vice Director Ip Kuong Lam said on Monday.
The local dog racetrack is set to close next year and one of the plans to save the greyhounds that are there is to send them to Portugal, according to a statement from local animal protection society Anima’s President Albano Martins.
The New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union organised a protest march on Monday, urging the government to push the city’s six gaming operators to raise their workers’ wages by at least five per cent.
A survey conducted by the private Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) found that Macau’s consumer confidence dropped slightly in the fourth quarter last year, with buying a flat recording a score of 54.89 (out of 200), down from 59.27 in the previous quarter.
Macau’s number of visitor arrivals during the two-day New Year holiday fell 6.12 percent year-on-year to 318,948, according to a statement by the Public Security Police (PSP) on Tuesday.
