Tourism

Macau, China, 14 Jul – Macau’s hotel industry recorded 444,912 guests in May, a drop of 22.9 percent on the previous month, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) announced Monday. Compared with the same month of last year, the number of hotel guests in May was down 18.2 percent. Mainlanders and Hongkongers accounted for 47 […]

Macau, China, 3 Jul – The Macau Health Bureau on Thursday confirmed another eight cases of people infected with the A H1N1 virus, also known as the swine flu – seven of the cases are imported and one is a local infection – increasing the total number to 42. Among the newest cases, there is […]

Macau, China, 2 Jul – The Macau Health Bureau announced on Wednesday that the number of confirmed cases of A H1N1, otherwise known as swine flu, in the territory reached 34, 12 of which are local infections. Lei Chin Ion, the director of the Health Bureau, confirmed that 17 patients with A H1N1 are being […]

Beijing, China, 01 Jul – China will start using e-passport and e-TP (Travel Permits) for residents of the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) from September 1, 2009, according to a bulletin issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry here on Wednesday. Both the e-passport and e-TP for the Macau SAR will be travel documents issued by […]

Macau, China, 30 Jun – The Health Bureau (SSM) announced today eight  more swine flu cases, five of them in a kindergarten. Speaking during the daily SSM press conference health authorities said that said that Macau recorded until now a total of 28 confirmed A H1N1 cases nine locally infected and 19 imported cases. "The […]

Macau, China, 25 Jun – The central government has given the green light to a pilot joint development project between Macau and Zhuhai on Hengqin Island, China Central Television said Wednesday. The 86 sq km island would be developed into a key base for commerce, tourism, scientific research and hi-tech industries, and would become part […]

Macau, China, 24 June – Macau’s health authorities today confirmed a further four cases of A H1N1 influenza, all imported, taking the total number of identified infections to 12. Eleven of the patients are in isolation wards in the local public hospital, but the first two cases recorded are likely to leave hospital soon. The […]

Macau, China, 24 Jun – The number of visitors that travelled to Macau in the first five months of the year fell 10 percent when compared to the same period in 2008, the director of the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) said on Tuesday. Tourism director Jose Manuel Costa Antunes, who spoke at the MGTO […]

Macau, China, 24 Jun – Air Macau shareholder SEAP (Serviços, Administração e Participações), a consortium that includes TAP Air Portugal and BNU (part of Portuguese banking group Caixa Geral de Depósitos), initiated legal proceedings in the Court of Macau to block the financial restructuring of the Macau airline. Carlos Pimentel, TAP’s representative at Air Macau, […]