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Macau's gold jewellery imports dropped 64.2 percent year-on-year to 1.05 billion patacas in the first half of the year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced today. Imports of watches declined 56.2 percent to 1.41 billion patacas. Mobile phone imports declined 54.8 percent to 1.08 billion patacas. Gold jewellery, watches and mobile phones are  popular with shoppers from the Chinese mainland. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of visitor arrivals from the

The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) has confirmed that it is proposing the Taipa Sa Kong Municipal Cemetery as the location for the construction of Macau’s first crematorium.In a statement on Friday, the bureau said that since last year it has been studying the feasibility of building a crematorium at any of the city’s public cemeteries, adding that it now considers the Sa Kong graveyard as the most suitable location for the future crematorium after taking various factors into