Tourism Office expects 3 pct fall in visitors this year

Non-establishment lawmaker Sulu Sou Ka Hou and his fellow activists from the New Macau Association (NMA) distanced themselves yesterday from a gathering reportedly planned for next Monday against alleged police violence in Hong Kong.In a statement released on the association’s Facebook page, the association says that it is “not the organiser [of Monday’s gathering], and we do not know the organiser.” However, the association added that “it must be stressed that all Macau citizens have

BEIJING –  Xi Jinping yesterday called for building cultural confidence and strength and securing new successes in developing socialist culture.“To build a modern socialist country in all respects, we must develop a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics and be more confident in our culture,” Xi said in a report at the opening session of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).In the efforts to turn China into a country with a strong socialist