CE to attend AL meeting today

The Chief Executive, Chui Sai On, will attend a plenary session of the Legislative Assembly (AL) today to answer legislators’ questions on government policy and social issues. The session will start at 3 p.m. and will be broadcast live on the television and radio channels of public broadcaster TDM. In addition to attending plenary sessions of the Assembly every November to deliver the Policy Address relating to the following fiscal year, Chui Sai On also attends similar sessions in April and August each year.

Real estate agency made 1,300 transactions in Q1

Ricacorp Properties’ housing data from the first quarter shows that the company made around 1,300 transactions, corresponding to an annual increase of 23 percent, Macao Daily News reported. So far, April sales are showing a 50 percent decline in comparison to March, when over 600 deals were closed. Transactions involving big houses comprised the majority of sales during April. According to government statistics, sales in the first two months amounted to 690, representing a 3.2 percent increase year-on-year. The average price per square meter sits at MOP73,399.50, a drop of 16 percent when compared with the same period last year.

New two-star guest house to be built

Construction of a two-star guest house will take place at Rua do Almirante Sérgio, as indicated in a note that was signed by the Secretary for Transport and Public Works, Raimundo do Rosário, and published in the Official Gazette this week. The project has been assigned to the local company Ellsworth Macau Limited, and is expected to be eight stories tall and to span an area of 195 square meters, with one floor planned as a basement.

Local band to perform at countryside festival

Zhuhai is inviting the bands the High Rollers (Macau), Mario Bernardo (Hong Kong), Electric Religions (Sweden), Greybeards (Sweden), Fergessen (France) and Moncho (Colombia) to perform in Zhuhai for Guangdong’s first countryside music festival from April 30 to May 1, according to a Southern Metropolis Daily report. Three Guangdong bands will also perform. The festival will take place at Zhuhai’s Shi Li Lian Jiang tourist attraction, which boasts acres of paddy fields. According to the organizer of the event, the Doumen District Tourism Bureau, the festival seeks to provide a short weekend trip for tourists traveling around Macau, Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta cities.