The governments of Hong Kong, Guangdong, and Macau yesterday endorsed the financing scheme for bridges linking the three places and the massive project will soon proceed to public tenders. Macau's casino magnate Dr Stanley Ho has said that he is interested in bidding for the project. It is expected a number of state- owned enterprises will

Austal has signed a contract for four additional 47.5 metre passenger catamarans with Cotai WaterJets (Macao) Ltd, adding to the initial ten-vessel contract signed in 2006 by sister company Venetian Marketing Services Limited (VMSL). [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=c3c0SnEdm-M[/youtube] CotaiJets Maiden Voyage by aomen.tv The new vessels will be identical to those currently under construction at Austal’s Henderson shipyard and will be

The local government logged 3.962 billion patacas (US$495 million) in total revenue last month, up 37 percent year-on-year, the government said. The latest statistics released by the government showed that a major share of the total revenue for January this year came from direct gaming taxes, which saw an increase of 30.9 percent year-on-year to 3.09

Despite blistery and snowy weather conditions, Macau still managed to increase visitor arrivals to 2,371,754 in January 2008, a year-on-year increase of 16.3%. Visitors from Mainland China (1,421,782) and Southeast Asia (109,738) grew by 23.0% and 58.2% respectively, while those from Hong Kong (581,860) decreased by 3.7%. Same-day visitors accounted for 52.3% of the total

The value of retail sales for the fourth quarter of 2007 was estimated at MOP4.2 billion (US$525 million). Retail sales of watches, clocks & jewellery took the largest share of 17% of the total, which was followed by sales of motor vehicles (13%), goods in department stores (12%), goods in supermarkets (9%) and adults' clothing

Local legislator and president of CAA City Planning and Engineering Consultants, Jose Sai-Peng Chui, presented diagrams showing how new land developments earmarked for urban development were switched to almost 100 per cent hotel and gaming use. Examples of the land reclamation in the NAPE district, to the east of Macau peninsula, and the Cotai Strip between

'Macau Daily Times' Chief Editor John Lawrence says the nearly 7-month-old newspaper reports news from mainland China "without fear or favour" There are two things I've always wanted to do: Write my own newspaper column and -- more recently -- edit a daily newspaper. I got the first chance in the 1980s and 1990s when I started

The Macau government has selected seven international companies to present proposals for consultation on the first phase of construction of the light railway that is due to be finished in 2011, officials said Thursday. Extending over 20 kilometers, the light railway is expected to cost around 4.2 billion patacas (US$525 million). The Bureau for Transport Infrastructure of

Asia's first Manchester United merchandising store opened its doors yesterday to a throng of fans and media pushing for a glimpse of retired star Ole Gunner Solskjaer. Many of the more than 150 local and Hong Kong fans waited for more than four hours for the former English Premier League star to open the first

Melco PBL Entertainment Ltd., a developer and owner of casinos and resorts in Macau, said Tuesday its fourth-quarter loss narrowed, helped by results from its Crown Macau casino.The company's quarterly loss narrowed to $36.5 million, or 3 cents per share, compared with a loss of $53 million, or 5 cents per share in the prior-year