Skip navigation

Macao SAR Government Portal

News

Display mode: Grid view List view

Visitor arrivals for November 2018

In view of the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, visitor arrivals increased by 15.3% year-on-year to 3,266,283 in November 2018, and a month-to-month growth of 3.6%. Overnight visitors (1,589,246) and same-day visitors (1,677,037) rose by 5.1% and 26.9% respectively year-on-year. The average length of stay of visitors held steady year-on-year at 1.2 days, with that of overnight visitors rising by 0.1 day to 2.2 days and that of same-day visitors staying at 0.2 day.


Macao's Base Rate of the Discount Window Raised to 2.75%

The Monetary Authority of Macao (AMCM) raised the Base Rate of the Discount Window today (21 December 2018) by 25 basis points to 2.75%. It has been the fourth time for the AMCM to raise the policy rate this year.


CE calls for further Macao participation in the country’s reform and opening up process

The Chief Executive, Mr Chui Sai On, today called for further Macao participation in the country’s strategy of promoting deeper national reform and introducing new opening-up policies, under the principle of “serving the country’s needs, delivering Macao’s strengths”.


Government announces decorations and medals for 2018

The Government has announced on Wednesday (19 December) Decorations, Medals and Certificates of Merit awarded for 2018 by the Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR). They are being given to 46 individuals and organisations in recognition of, respectively, achievement, outstanding contribution and distinguished service.





UM, Alibaba Cloud sign MOU on nurturing big data professionals

The University of Macau (UM) and Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, today (19 December) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a partnership to propel the development opportunities in big data and cloud computing technologies for UM students. The partnership will extend UM’s current offerings of technology-related courses and the development of laboratories to facilitate research in big-data processing, data analytics and collaborative computing, data-driven intelligence systems, and e-commerce technology.


Consumer Council released its latest ‘Supermarket price survey’ on Sé Parish

Consumer Council conducted its latest ‘Supermarket price survey’ on 19 December for the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June. Surveyed locations included 13 supermarkets in Sé Parish.


Fitch Ratings Maintains Macao SAR’s Long-Term Credit Ratings

According to a press release published by Fitch Ratings today, the international rating agency affirms Macao SAR’s credit ratings (long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings) at “AA” with a “stable” outlook.


All information on this site is based on the official language of the Macao Special Administrative Region. The English version is the translation from the Chinese originals and is provided for reference only. If you find that some of the contents do not have an English version, please refer to the Traditional Chinese or Portuguese versions.