Category: News Updates
THE 13 HOTEL’S FOUNDER APPEARS IN BLING EMPIRE: NEW YORK
Hong Kong businessman Stephen Hung, founder of failed luxury Macau hotel THE 13, located in Coloane, and his socialite wife, former model Deborah Val [...]
SUBIC BAY: A PRIORITY INFRASTRUCTURE SITE IN US-PHILIPPINE DIALOGUE
Subic Bay has become a priority site for infrastructure projects aimed at supporting the Philippines’ economic growth as the subject was underlined i [...]
FIRST DIRECT MAINLAND CHINA-BALI FLIGHT ARRIVED AT NGURAH RAI ON CHINESE NEW YEAR DAY
The first direct flight from mainland China to Bali since February 2020 arrived at the Indonesian island’s Ngurah Rai airport on 22 January, the firs [...]
HEAVY RAINS, FLOODS CAUSE PHP1.26 BILLION WORTH OF DAMAGE TO AGRICULTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS VARIOUS PARTS OF PHILIPPINES
The Philippines’ Office of Civil Defence (OCD) said on Wednesday torrential rains and floods from low-pressure area, shear line and northeast monsoon [...]
INDONESIA GETS US$103.65 MILLION FUND FOR BIODIVERSITY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND DEGRADATION
Indonesia has received from the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) a fund – totalling US$103.65 million – for biodiversity, climate change and land [...]
INDONESIAN MONEY TRANSFER APP ‘YOURPAY’ IS NOT AUTHORISED IN MACAU
Yourpay, an Indonesian digital payment and money transfer app popular among local Indonesians, is not authorised in Macau, the Monetary Authority of [...]
MINIMUM TEMPERATURE IN MACAU TO DROP TO 8 DEGREES CELSIUS TOMORROW
The weather in town will remain cold for the next few days and the minimum temperatures are predicted to drop to 9 and 8 degrees Celsius today and to [...]
69,000 PEOPLE ENTER MACAU ON FIFTH DAY OF CHINESE NEW YEAR
Some 69,000 people entered Macau on 26 January, the fifth day of Chinese New Year – most of them passed through the Zhuhai-Macau border or the Hong K [...]
DSI URGES ELIGIBLE CITIZENS TO USE ELECTRONIC MEANS TO APPLY FOR IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS
The Identification Services Bureau (DSI) has urged eligible citizens to apply for identification documents electronically to avoid queuing as the num [...]
MACAU’S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN Q4 OF 2022 DECREASES BY 0.2 FROM PREVIOUS QUARTER; HOWEVER, LAST YEAR’S RATE UP BY 0.8 PCT YEAR ON YEAR
The general population’s and local residents’ unemployment rates in the last quarter of 2022 both decreased by 0.2 per cent to 3.5 and 4.5 per cent, [...]