Visitors rise 5.7 pct to 2.5 million in March

Macau casinos' gross gaming revenue (GGR) tumbled 68.1 percent year on year to 2.67 billion patacas (US$331 million) last month, the steepest decline since November 2020, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) announced today. In November 2020, GGR dropped 70.5 percent. Last month's 2.67 billion pataca GGR was the lowest since September 2020, which stood at 2.21 billion patacas. February was so far this year's only month that recorded year-on-year GGR growth, at 6.1

The Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) said in a statement yesterday that its Centre for Continuing Education is slated to launch nine different programmes with over 20 professional certification courses in the fourth quarter of this year in response to the “strong demand for practice-orientated training”.The courses, according to MPU’s website, are taught in Cantonese.The statement noted that practice-orientated training covers financial management, conventions and exhibitions,