Correctional Services Bureau (DSC) Director Cheng Fong Meng told lawmakers on Tuesday that the city’s prison in Coloane is 82.81 per cent full, adding that his bureau was ready to change the facilities in the penitentiary to raise its capacity.
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Addressing a Q&A session in the legislature’s hemicycle on Monday, Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said that the installation of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras was necessary to keep the city secure.
Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On praised on Sunday the “indispensable” role of the Macanese community as a “bridge of communication and exchanges between different cultures”.
The Executive Council (ExCo) has finished discussing the government’s draft of an amendment bill on sex crimes listed in the Macau Penal Code, according to a statement by the government’s top advisory body on Friday.
A scheme for free-sailing yachts journeying between Zhongshan city and Macau was officially inaugurated on Wednesday. The new scheme shortens the traveling time between the two cities to approximately 45 minutes. Customs on both sides will take altogether 10 minutes to complete all custom checking procedures. In Zhongshan, yachts covered by the new scheme are allowed […]
Macau’s number of visitor arrivals rose 1.6 per cent year-on-year and 10.4 per cent month-on-month to 2.67 million in October, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Wednesday. A DSEC statement attributed the two-digit month-on-month increase to the National Day “Golden Week” holiday in the first week of last month. Overnight visitors rose 12.1 per […]
Macau’s gross domestic product (GDP) has finally snapped a two-year contraction amid a recovery in casino receipts. GDP grew 4 per cent year-on-year in real terms in the third quarter, the first positive quarterly growth recorded over the past two years, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. The bureau attributed the return to […]
Apart from the five-square-kilometre area known as the Hengqin Guangdong-Macau Co-operation Industrial Park, Hengqin Island has enough land for investors from Macau, the director of the Administrative Committee of Hengqin New Area, Niu Jing, said on Tuesday. Niu made the remarks on the sidelines of a seminar at the Zhuhai Holiday Resort Hotel about the […]
Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said on Monday the government needed to increase public investment to help boost the local economy amid its current downturn. Leong made the remarks when attending a plenary session to present the government’s 2017 budget bill, which was unanimously passed by the legislature. According to the […]