Macau’s residential property prices set to continue ‘adjusting’: JLL

Commercial real estate services company JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) has forecast that Macau’s residential property market will remain challenging this year due to a weak external economy, with prices being expected to continue “adjusting”, urging the government to “consider reasonably increasing [the loan-to-value] ratio, accounting for buyers’ affordability, to prevent further economic and property market deterioration”, as outlined in its “Macau Property Market Review and 2025

February 21, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei

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MGTO unveils destination marketing in HK

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) hosted a Spring luncheon in Hong Kong last Friday, Macau’s second largest visitor market, to thank members of its travel trade, with an MGTO statement on Wednesday noting that it will progressively launch promotions to secure more visitations.During her speech at the luncheon, which was joined by over 100 Hong Kong tourism industry representatives, MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said that Macau welcomed nearly 35 million visitors last

February 21, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Air Macau, MGM announce partnership on business class menu

Air Macau and integrated resort operator MGM announced during a press conference at MGM MACAU in Nape yesterday a new partnership for in-flight dining experiences for the airline’s business class passengers flying to over 10 destinations.Set to launch on March 1, the accumulative menu comprises 36 new Eastern and Western dishes, according to yesterday’s press conference, with MGM’s professional culinary team from Imperial Court, and Aux Beaux Arts having provided technical guidance on

February 21, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Visitors rise 27.4 pct to 3.6 million in January

Macau recorded 3.64 million visitor arrivals last month, a year-on-year growth of 27.4 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. Same-day visitors (2.15 million) and overnight visitors (1.49 million) rose by 45.6 percent and 7.9 percent year on year respectively. Overnight visitors stayed for an average of 2.2 days, unchanged from a year earlier. The Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) holiday fell on the last week of January this year.Visitors from mainland

February 21, 2025 | BY admin

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Govt to study HOS flat swap system: Tam

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raymond Tam Vai Man said yesterday that the government will study the feasibility of allowing households living in subsidised home-ownership scheme (HOS) flats to apply to move to other HOS units with different bedroom numbers.Tam said that the proposed measure aims to enable HOS households with their family size having increased to move to flats with more bedrooms.The future possible implementation of the proposal revealed by Tam yesterday would require

February 21, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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LRT’s extension to Qingmao checkpoint feasible: Tam

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raymond Tam Vai Man said yesterday that the government has preliminarily concluded that it would be feasible to launch a project to extend the Light Rapid Transit (LRT) East Line to the Qingmao pedestrian border checkpoint.Tam also reaffirmed that the execution of the extended LRT East Line project could be expected to be difficult because of the complexity of the respective area’s geological conditions.Tam made the remarks when replying to oral

February 21, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Govt mulls exploring low-altitude economy to align with ‘1+4’ economic diversification: Tai

Secretary for Economy and Finance Anton Tai Kin Ip said yesterday that the government plans to optimise policies and introduce measures tailored to the development of low-altitude economies*, in order to align with Macau’s “1+4” model** aiming to appropriately diversify Macau’s economy.Tai made the remarks in response to an oral interpellation during a plenary session yesterday in the legislature’s hemicycle, in which lawmaker José Choi San Peng urged the government to respond to

February 21, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Flu levels drop, but enteroviruses on rise: Health Bureau

The Health Bureau (SSM) held a press conference yesterday to raise public awareness of common springtime infectious diseases, during which Chang Tam Fei, director of the emergency department of the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre, quoted the latest surveillance data as saying that influenza viral activity in Macau has dropped slightly from its peak over the past week, but enteroviruses have been on the rise lately, and are even expected to increase further in the spring.Macau

February 21, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei

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Govt mulls improving consumer rewards scheme if relaunched

Secretary for Economy and Finance Anton Tai Kin Ip said yesterday that the government is considering making improvements to any future consumer reward schemes, such as simplifying the process for elderly residents to use digital coupons, provided that the “Citywide Consumer Rewards” promotional activity will be relaunched.Tai made the remarks during a Legislative Assembly plenary session in response to an oral enquiry by lawmaker Ip Sio Kai, who asked whether the government would continue

February 21, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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5 family members caught reselling Mark Six tickets: police

Three mainlanders and two locals, who are family members, have been arrested for reselling Mark Six lottery tickets, Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Lai In Hong said during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Lai, the police were recently tipped off about sales occurring at a grocery shop in the Areia Preta district, and on Tuesday, police officers who arrived at the scene discovered a mainland man surnamed Wang selling Mark Six tickets to a customer.Police intercepted

February 21, 2025 | BY William Chan

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Mainlander loses 2 million yuan in ‘fake police’ scam: police

A man from the mainland has lost 2 million yuan (2.2 million patacas) in a “fake police” scam, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Cheong Sio Keong said in a regular press conference yesterday.According to Cheong, the victim, who is under the age of 30, received a call while in Macau in mid-January from a man claiming to be a “Hunan police officer.” The fraudster alleged that the victim had sent out a “significant number of scam messages”, which purportedly had led to one of the victims

February 21, 2025 | BY William Chan

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PJ urge residents to be wary of ‘celebrities’ sharing fraudulent investment info

In a recent surge of online investment scams, the Judiciary Police (PJ) have discovered a new scheme involving fraudulent advertisements on social media platforms that endorse certain investment platforms which promise substantial returns to lure victims into clicking on embedded links, according to a PJ statement yesterday.These ads, which mimic legitimate news articles, feature interviews with well-known local celebrities and claim that the celebrities have endorsed certain investment

February 20, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Local woman cheated out of HK$110,000 in bogus proxy order: police

A local middle-aged woman has lost HK$110,000 in a purported proxy order to buy paint, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Cheong Sio Keong said in a regular press conference yesterday.According to Cheong, a female staff member of a security staff company received an online call on Monday from someone who claimed to be a “staff member of a secondary school” in Macau.The caller told the staff member that the school wanted the company to provide security services and switched to WhatsApp to call

February 20, 2025 | BY Ada Lei

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Police nab Philippine man for theft-by-finding

The Public Security Police (PSP) transferred a Philippine man to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) for his theft-by-finding charge on Monday, involving a mobile phone worth around 10,000 patacas and 100 patacas in cash, a PSP spokesperson said yesterday in a regular press conference.The suspect in his fifties is a Philippine domestic helper working in Macau, the spokesperson said.According to the spokesperson, PSP officers received a report on Sunday that the victim’s phone worth about

February 20, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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