benefited from the National Day holidays, number of visitor arrivals reached 2,430,414 in October 2007, representing a year-on-year increase of 22.1%. Visitors from Mainland China and Hong Kong rose by 28.9% and 8.1% respectively, whereas those from Taiwan, China dropped by 5.5%. Meanwhile, same-day visitors accounted for 52.7% of the total arrivals, at 1,280,949. The majority

HONG KONG, June 5 (Reuters) - Cambodian casino operator NagaCorp plans to raise between HK$400 million and HK$600 million (US$51-US$77 million) in a Hong Kong initial public offering to be launched this month, a newspaper reported on Monday. The listing hearing of NagaCorp was scheduled for this month, before a proposed share sale of casino mogul

An article about Macau Music Festival  The 20th anniversary of the MIMF is celebrated with a touch of romanticism. Jazz, classical, electronica, Chinese folk-pop, rock and fado will fill Macau's autumn nights with magic. The eclectic programme of 28 performances promises to delight Macau audiences, accustomed to the festival's annual offering of some of the best

MACAU -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- As the hotspot gaming city in the region, Macau is gradually becoming a major home to large-scale gaming exhibitions in Asia, but it still lags behind in M.I.C.E. support in holding such big events. Yet that gap is expected to be narrowed as Asian Gaming Expo returns to Macau, following

Cotai Waterjets (Macau) Limited announced yesterday that it has received permission from the Macau and Hong Kong transportation departments to begin operating its Cotai Strip(R) CotaiJets(TM) with increased frequency and at night. Cotai Waterjets said the expanded service, which runs between the Hong Kong-Macao Ferry Terminal at Shun Tak Centre and the Taipa Temporary Ferry Terminal,

May 20, 2006 - Hilton Hotels Corp. announced plans to build hotels under its Hilton and Conrad brands on the Cotai Strip.  Las Vegas Sands Corp. is developing an Asian version of the Las Vegas Strip in Cotai. Hilton plans to operate: a 1,200-room Hilton Hotel, a 300- room Conrad Hotel, and 300,000 square feet of

Macau - Tougher visa controls on mainland Chinese visitors led Macau to post a 10 per cent fall in gaming revenue in the third quarter from the previous quarter, a media report said Monday.The July-September figure of 25.98 billion patacas (3.25 billion dollars) was down from 28.88 billion patacas in the second quarter, the South

The Macau Pavilion at Shanghai World Expo, from May 1 to Oct 31, 2010, will take the shape of a jade rabbit lantern and it will change colors to present a mythological world. Macau Rabbit Pavilion. World Expo 2010. Shanghai The design was inspired by rabbit lanterns popular during the Mid-autumn Festival in south China in

How lovely this story from the China Daily is! At long last, the appropriate but long wordly named Spiritual Civilization Steering Committee of the Communist Party of China Central Committee has decided that outbound travelling Chinese People need guidelines in etiquette. Of course this is something that we have been waiting for a long time, lets

In the first quarter of the year Macau received 230,788 more visitors than Hong Kong, according to official figures from the Hong Kong tourist office obtained by Portuguese news agency Lusa. According to the same figures, between January and March 2008, Macau received 7,506,309 visitors as compared with 7,275,521 visitors to Hong Kong. The Hong Kong tourist