Over 1 million CNY visitors in 6 days: MGTO

Macau recorded 1.048 million Chinese New Year (CNY) visitor arrivals between Monday and Saturday last week, an increase of 27.4 percent compared with last year’s CNY holiday period, the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) announced yesterday. According to MGTO data, Thursday – the third day of the Chinese New Year – recorded the highest number of visitor arrivals last week, 226,874, up 22.6 percent from the lunar calendar’s same day last year.Mainlanders accounted for 73.3 percent of

February 11, 2019 | BY admin

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SJM ‘looks forward’ to continuation of its concession

SJM is “looking forward” to the continuation of its gaming concession, which expires next year, the gaming company’s Board Chairman Ambrose So Shu Fai said last week. So made the remarks in a speech at the company’s traditional Chinese New Year’s Eve gala dinner, at the ballroom of Grand Lisboa last Monday. Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On and other high-ranking government officials, community leaders and media representatives attended the dinner.“We look forward to the

February 11, 2019 | BY admin

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2 passengers, driver hurt in casino staff shuttle bus crash

A casino staff shuttle bus hit the kerb in Pac On in Taipa, slightly injuring two passengers and the driver yesterday afternoon, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) said.According to the Fire Services Bureau, the accident occurred at around 2:30 p.m. outside the Lightex industrial building in Estrada de Pac On when the bus was travelling towards the Taipa Ferry Terminal.The Transmac vehicle is used as a shuttle bus for members of staff of the Galaxy Macau casino-hotel resort in Cotai, according to

February 11, 2019 | BY admin

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Residential property price index rises 8.5 pct in 2018

Macau’s overall residential property price index rose by 8.5 percent year-on-year in 2018, a slowdown from the 11.6 percent growth in 2017, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.A DSEC statement released on Friday showed that the 2018 indices for existing residential units and pre-sale residential units increased by 8.9 percent and 11.5 percent respectively year-on-year.In the fourth quarter of last year, the overall residential property price index decreased by 0.6 percent

February 11, 2019 | BY admin

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Chinese New Year holiday

The Macau Post Daily team wishes all our readers, advertisers and distributors a happy Chinese New Year and a prosperous Year of the Pig. The Macau Post Daily will take a break during the holiday. The next issue will be published on Monday 11 February.

February 4, 2019 | BY admin

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Policeman shoots, wounds knife-wielding robber

A Judiciary Police (PJ) officer fired a shot and wounded an illegal immigrant from the mainland after the latter had pounced on the officer with a knife in Iao Hon district yesterday morning, several hours after he had snatched a handbag from a table in a restaurant in Toi San district and injured a man who had given chase, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said yesterday.The shooting happened after several PJ officers had found the robbery suspect walking in Iao Hon district and approached him. They

February 4, 2019 | BY admin

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Mainland’s slowdown spurs first casino revenue drop since 2016

Macau’s monthly casino revenue has fallen for the first time since July 2016 as mainland China’s economic slowdown deterred high rollers – but the drop was less steep than expected, fueling a relief rally in gaming shares.Gross gaming revenue fell 5 percent last month to 24.9 billion patacas from a year earlier, according to data from the Gaming Inspection & Coordination Bureau (DICJ) last week. Last month’s revenue was the lowest since September last year. PLEASE READ THE FULL

February 4, 2019 | BY admin

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Court orders activist’s retrial

The Court of Second Instance (TSI) has ordered the retrial of political activist Scott Chiang Meng Hin, quashing last year’s ruling by the Court of First Instance (TJB) on the case. The TSI ruling quoted António Dias Azedo, the judge-rapporteur in the case, as saying that the lower court’s ruling was quashed as it had failed to give Chiang’s defence counsel the chance to respond to the accusation of illegal demonstration which was only announced at the very end of his trial. In the

February 4, 2019 | BY admin

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Listed buildings can become hotels: bill

The Executive Council has announced that the government has drafted a bill regulating the city’s hotel sector, which proposes that hotels will be allowed in heritage-protected buildings.The bill also proposes to lower the minimum number of guestrooms in a hotel from 40 to 10.Leong Heng Teng, spokesman for the government’s top advisory body, made the announcement during a press conference at Government Headquarters on Friday.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

February 4, 2019 | BY admin

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Traffic accidents drop 6.5 pct to 13,764 in 2018

Macau’s traffic accidents decreased by 6.5 percent to 13,764 last year, resulting in 4,390 casualties including 10 fatalities, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. On average, the traffic police recorded 37.7 traffic accidents per day in 2018. The city’s number of licensed motor vehicles dipped by 0.6 percent to 240,145 last year. PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

February 4, 2019 | BY admin

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50,000-pataca bail for temple chief facing jail for illegal renovation

The Public Prosecution Office (MP) has announced that the chief representative of Kun Iam Temple has been ordered to pay 50,000 patacas bail, facing jail for aggravated disobedience. According to a MP statement last week, the suspect repeatedly disobeyed a raft of orders by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) to stop unauthorised renovation work at the ancient temple. The statement pointed out that the illegal renovation has damaged the heritage-listed temple. PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN

February 4, 2019 | BY admin

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Cosmetics imports rise 51 pct in 2018

Macau’s imports of beauty, cosmetics and skin-care products rose by 51.5 percent to 4.8 billion patacas last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. Mobile phone imports grew by 52.4 percent to 7.3 billion patacas. Gold jewellery increased by 13.4 percent to 7.6 billion patacas, while imports of watches rose by 25.6 percent to 6.5 billion patacas. Food and beverage imports grew by 10.1 percent to 13.2 billion patacas, accounting for 14.7 percent of all imports last

February 4, 2019 | BY admin

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Message for Chinese New Year 2019

Shen Beili Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in the Macao SARShen Beili Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in the Macao SARBidding farewell to the prosperous year of the Dog, we ring in the year of the Pig. On behalf of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in the Macao Special Administrative Region, I would like to send New Year

February 4, 2019 | BY admin

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Culture bureau calls police again over illegal renovation work at Kun Iam Temple

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement yesterday that its inspectors discovered on Wednesday that unauthorised renovation work was still going on at the heritage-listed Kun Iam Temple and therefore “immediately” reported the case to the police again.The bureau had already called the police once about the same issue last month.The bureau said in a statement on January 14 that it had called the police that day after Kun Iam Temple representatives continued with their renovation

February 1, 2019 | BY admin

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