Macau’s economy will shrink 0.8% this year and 0.9% next year.
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According to the bill, the government expects total receipts of MOP119.17 billion next year, MOP16.23 billion more than this year’s budget, up 15.8 percent. Government expenditure next year is budgeted at MOP109.61 billion.
The local government has not intentionally banned any reporters from outside Macau from entering the city to report on the aftermath of the Typhoon Hato disaster
The government expects to spend MOP 405 million on its annual medical subsidy programme – informally known as medical vouchers – this year, Executive Council (ExCo) spokesman Leong Heng Teng said late last week.
Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) President Guilherme Ung Vai Meng said Tuesday on the sidelines of a regular Cultural Heritage Council meeting that the government had already made up its mind to build the new central library at the Old Courthouse. Ung also said the bidding process for the library’s detailed design plan would start later […]
The government has granted China Construction and Engineering (Macau) Company Limited the contract for the construction of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) depot in Cotai, for 1.07 billion patacas, according to Monday’s Official Gazette (BO). Earlier this year, the government said it had terminated the construction contract with the depot’s original contractor. The government said […]
The government plans to convert the former leper colony in Ka Ho village in Coloane into a tourist attraction, a part of which is to repair half a dozen Portuguese-style houses in the hamlet. The plan to the make the village a tourist attraction was first mooted when Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis […]
The budget for next month’s Global Tourism Economy Forum (GTEF) is about 45 million patacas, of which about half will be paid by the government, Ip Peng Kin, chief-of-cabinet of the Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture, said on Tuesday. Ip made the remarks at Macau Tower during a press conference for the 5th GTEF, […]
Holy House Mercy (SCMM) President António José de Freitas said on Monday that the government had shown “no respect at all” to the charitable association when it suddenly announced that it would move its public notary office in the building to another private property. Freitas made the angry re-marks while speaking to reporters on the […]