New waterfront sitting-out area in Fai Chi Kei opens

The new sitting-out area along the south-side waterfront of Patane North Bay opened on Friday after the completion of its construction.Patane North Bay, a bay off Fai Chi Kei and Ilha Verde, is known as Fai Chi Kei North Bay in Cantonese.A statement by the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) last week said that the ongoing rainwater pumping station project next to the new waterfront sitting-out area is now slated to be completed in the next quarter, after which it could come into operation.The

January 27, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Government Services Centre to move from Areia Preta to social housing estate on ex-power plant plot in Q4

The government has announced that it is aiming to relocate its current Government Services Centre in the peninsula, located in a building in Areia Preta district, to the podium area of the nearby new social rental housing estate on Avenida de Venceslau de Morais (慕拉士大馬路) in the fourth quarter of this year.Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) President Chao Wai Ieng made the remarks while attending this year’s first regular meeting of the bureau’s Consultative Committee at its

January 27, 2025 | BY Tony Wong

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Meeting Xia, O Lam vows people-centred approach

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Wallis O Lam vowed during her working visit to Beijing on Friday to study in-depth and implement thoroughly President Xi Jinping’s important speeches and carry out the mission that he entrusted Macau with concerning local and national development, and she also pledged to keep the local government’s people-centred philosophy of development as her main focus when preparing her portfolio’s policy action guidelines.O made the remarks during her meeting

January 27, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei

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Student’s leg hurt in traffic accident ‘not amputated’: DSEDJ chief

In a traffic accident in Iao Hon district last Monday, a 19-year-old secondary school student was hit by a bus on a zebra crossing and he was rushed to the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre after his right leg was run over by the vehicle, resulting in an open fracture of the right thigh and a right metatarsal laceration, in response to which Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) Director Kong Chi Meng said on Saturday that the student had meanwhile undergone his first

January 27, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei

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2 more diagonal crossings set up in northern district: DSAT

Following the installation of diagonal crossings at the junction of Rua Nova da Areia Preta (黑沙環新街) and Rua de Ma Kau Seak (馬交石街), two more junctions have been provided with multidirectional crosswalks in the northern district, which started operating on Saturday morning.According to a statement by the Transport Bureau (DSAT) on Saturday, the relevant arrangement was made in the wake of a traffic accident at the junction of Avenida da Longevidade (長壽大馬路) and Rua da

January 27, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei

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Visitor arrivals rise 23.8 pct to 34,9 million in 2024, incl 2.4 million foreigners

     Macau recorded 34.9 million visitor arrivals last year, a year-on-year growth of 23.8 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.      According to a statement by the bureau this week, same-day visitors (18.88 million) and overnight visitors (16.04 million) grew by 35.0 percent and 12.8 percent year on year respectively.     Visitors' average length of stay (1.2 days) shortened by 0.1 days last year, with that of

January 25, 2025 | BY Staff Reporter

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Hotel guests rise by 6.4 pct to 14.4 million in 2024

   Macau's 146 hotels recorded 14.4 million hotel guests last year, a year-on-year increase of 6.4 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.    According to a DSEC statement this week, the hotel sector's average occupancy rate of guestrooms rose by 4.9 percentage points year on year to 86.4 percent in 2024, when guests' average length of stay remained unchanged at 1.7 nights.    Last year, the number of available

January 24, 2025 | BY Staff Reporter

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Inflation rate dips to 0.74 pct in 2024

    Macau's inflation rate dipped by 0.2 percentage points to 0.74 percent last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.     However, according to a DSEC statement this week, the composite consumer price index (CPI) for last month rose by 0.23 percent year on year and by 0.2 percent month on month.     The price index of Food & Non-alcoholic Beverages, which had a weight of 29.47 in the CPI, increased by 1.1 percent year on

January 24, 2025 | BY Staff Reporter

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Jobless rate falls to 1.8 pct in 2024

      Macau's general unemployment rate, which comprises residents and non-resident workers (NRWs), decreased by 0.9 percentage points year on year to 1.8 percent last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.     According to a DSEC statement this week, residents' jobless rate fell by 1.0 percentage points year on year to 2.4 percent in 2024.      The median monthly employment earnings of the employed population in

January 24, 2025 | BY Staff Reporter

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4 illegal currency dealers nabbed

Four jobless mainlanders involved in illegal currency exchange deals were arrested, and a total of HK$2.35 million in cash, HK$66,700 in gambling chips and 3,300 yuan in cash were seized on Wednesday, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said in a special conference yesterday.The four suspects comprise two men surnamed Cao and Liu, and two women surnamed Fan and Hu, and the PJ operation on Wednesday also caught a mainland gambler surnamed Ying who was overstaying, the spokesperson said.PJ

January 24, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Kai Fong’s Guangdong office serves Macau residents 27,000 times, up 51 pct

The Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations’ (UGAMM) office in Guangdong served Guangdong and Macau residents 269,000 times last year, including Macau residents served 27,000 times, representing a year-on-year increase of 51 percent, Tian Yi, who heads the union’s office in Guangdong, said yesterday.The union, commonly known as Kai Fong in Cantonese, held a press conference at its premises in Toi San district regarding its 2024 annual review, during which the findings of its

January 24, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Local 18-year-old nabbed for stealing 49 phones from shop

A local 18-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for stealing 49 mobile phones from a strongbox in a shopping mall near the Barrier Gate checkpoint, and the victim reported a total loss of 160,000 patacas, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said in a press conference yesterday.The suspect surnamed Hoi told the police that he is jobless, the spokesperson said.According to the spokesperson, PJ officers received a report from a middle-aged shop owner in the afternoon of November 21 last year

January 24, 2025 | BY Ginnie Liang

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António Sanmarful’s ‘Heritople’ wins best documentary at Bangkok Movie Awards

Trilingual documentary “Heritople”* directed by local filmmaker António Salas Sanmarful was named best documentary in the Bangkok Movie Awards (BMA), a monthly film competition, last month.The around one-hour-long documentary, which was produced by the International Institute of Macau (IIM) and sponsored by the Macao Foundation (FM), premiered in October last year to a packed Cinematheque•Passion on Travessa da Paixão (戀愛巷). A screening at the University of Saint Joseph (USJ)

January 24, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Symposium explores modern finance trends

The “3rd Macau-Hengqin Modern Finance Development Trend and Financial Technology Seminar” was held yesterday afternoon at the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Centre (CPTTM) in Zape, with the event exploring fintech (financial technology) trends and opportunities in the Greater Bay Area (GBA).Co-organised with the Macau Economic and Livelihood Alliance and featuring four invited experts from the mainland and Hong Kong as keynote speakers, the one-day event explored fintech

January 24, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin

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