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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
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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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Guangdong-Macau cross-border ambulance service to start this year
The governments of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau signed in June last year a framework agreement on setting up a government-led cooperation mechanism for emergency response measures, and Fire Services Bureau (CB) Commissioner Leong Iok Sam said yesterday that the relevant discussions have nearly reached completion, expecting that the five local ambulances and three fire engines licensed for use in Guangdong would start operating later this year. Leong made the remarks during yesterday’s
January 24, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei
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32 artists present works at ‘Good Time’ exhibition
Amagao Gallery’s latest exhibition “Good Time” is showcasing a raft of works by 32 artists of different nationalities until March 17.The free-admission gallery, managed by Galeria 57 (Macau) and located at Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau hotel, showcases a total of 38 works by artists from Brazil, the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as France, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Italy, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Thailand, and the US. Among the artworks that exhibitiongoers will
January 24, 2025 | BY Rui Pastorin
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Last year logs 5 traffic fatalities in 15,511 accidents: police
Macau recorded 15,511 road traffic accidents last year, including five fatalities, marking the highest number of accidents in the past nine years, according to information released by the Public Security Police (PSP) on their official website this week.Road traffic statistics by the Public Security Police showed that last year’s total of more than 15,000 traffic accidents was nearly 2,000 more than in 2023, with an increase of 14.36 percent year on year. This figure was the third highest
January 24, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei
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Foreign visitors need home-like convenience
Commentary by Kang BingThe National Immigration Administration’s new immigration-friendly policies for foreign visitors announced in December are set to prompt more foreigners to visit China. The policies show China’s determination to advance high-quality opening-up at a time when some countries are resorting to protectionism and isolationism.The new policies extend the duration of visa-free visits by foreigners to 10 days, and add 21 new ports of entry to the existing list. Since the
January 24, 2025 | BY Commentary by Kang Bing
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Indonesian couple busted for selling drugs worth 210,000 patacas
The Judiciary Police (PJ) on Tuesday arrested an Indonesian couple in San Kio district for drug abuse and trafficking, with 105 grammes of cocaine and 0.73 grammes of methamphetamine (aka ice) worth 210,000 patacas seized, according to a special press conference yesterday.PJ spokesman Chao Teng Hin identified the two suspects during the press conference – the male, aged 45, is surnamed Edi, while the female, aged 39, is surnamed Muchidatun. The two told the police that they work as a cleaner
January 24, 2025 | BY Yuki Lei
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