TOURISM | Visitor arrivals down 1.7 pct

Visitor arrivals totaled 3,033,081 in August, up by 14.5 percent month-on-month. Same-day visitors totaled 1,608,385 (53.0 percent of the total), down 3.5 percent year-on-year; overnight visitors rose slightly by 0.4

Administration | Tourism and ID bureaus distinguished for high quality services

The Macau Identification Services (DSI) and the Macau Government Tourist Office information desks have been awarded prizes by the Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) for providing high-quality public

New details released on alleged spy arrest in Gongbei

Phan Phan-Gillis was visiting China last spring as part of an American trade delegation that included the Mayor Pro-Tem of Houston and others who were promoting business opportunities in the

Dore Group theft prompts proposals to amend junkets’ regulation

Dore Group’s embezzlement scandal has prompted the government and scholars to propose amendments to the regulation of junkets. On Monday, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) made its second statement

Illegal food vending widespread at Cotai worksites

Twenty bucks, dude,” says the tanned vendor in her 40s, handing a lunchbox over to a young workman who approaches her from the Parisian Macao construction site across the road. Another

Hac Sa camping seen as alternative accommodation for tourists

Exorbitant hotel prices have forced tourists to turn to campsites at the Hac Sa beach for accommodation, with strategies for securing spaces now appearing on mainland websites, Macao Daily has

Pattaya-Macau flights in November

The FIVB Volleyball Grand Prix will return to Macau in 2016 after a year of absence. The Macau Sport Development Board (ID) announced that the local stage of the female

Macau casinos drop as analyst says gaming fell 19pct last week

Gross gaming revenue fell 19 percent to 493 million patacas (USD62 million) a day last week, or 18 percent below the average so far this quarter, Deutsche Bank AG analyst

Emissions Scandal | Volkswagen CEO steps down

Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn stepped down yesterday over a scandal in which the German carmaker admitted to rigging its diesel cars’ emissions to pass U.S. tests. In a statement, Winterkorn said

Corporate Bits | Over 2,500 boxes of mooncakes donated by melco employees

Adding a warm and caring touch this year, besides delivering mooncakes door-to-door to over 200 social housing units for the elderly in Cheng Chong Building at Ilha Verde, over 40

China economy | Weakened but still growing

President Xi Jinping is visiting the United States as leader of a China whose image of economic success has taken a beating. Stock market turmoil and a surprise currency devaluation fueled

Xinhua report | Airlines ink deal to buy 300 Boeing jets

Chinese companies have agreed with Boeing to buy 300 jets and build an aircraft assembly plant in China in deals signed during President Xi Jinping's visit to the United States,

Failed schemes pull down hundreds of thousands of investors

Local financing networks are unravelling across China as the economic slowdown bites into one of the weakest but most enduring links in the financial system - pulling hundreds of thousands

US-China | Xi pledges cooperation on cyber issues

Chinese President Xi Jinping said yesterday (Macau time) that China and the United States could work together to address cyber crimes, a problem that has sparked mutual tension. Xi's statement came

Xi Jinping meets businessmen | Investment treaty between China and US key business goal

When Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses a meeting of some of the top names in Chinese and American business today, they may be most interested what he says about progress

US-China | Candidate Fiorina pledges firmness with Beijing, says nix state dinner

Presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina joined her Republican rivals yesterday in saying Chinese President Xi Jinping should not be honored with a state dinner at the White House. The former Hewlett-Packard CEO

Australia | Consumer confidence jumps after change of leader

  Australian consumer confidence has jumped following the ouster of the country's unpopular prime minister last week by a moderate rival. The optimism of Australians rose 8.7 percent in the latest ANZ-Roy

US man accused of killing S Korean extradited for new trial

An American charged with murder in the stabbing of a Seoul university student in 1997, who officials say had fled to the U.S., was extradited to South Korea yesterday to face

Terrorism | Malaysia detains 8 suspects for questioning about Thai blast

Eight people, including four believed to be ethnic Uighurs, have been detained in Malaysia for questioning in connection with last month's bombing of a shrine in Bangkok that killed 20

Bangladesh | Gov’t says it meets US factory safety conditions

Bangladesh said it has met the conditions put forward by the United States for better safety and workers' rights in its factories that were essential to regain preferential trade status

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