Renato Marques

The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) is preparing to host the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Travel Mart 2027 in Macau. The preparations began this week during the local tourism authority’s participation in PATA Travel Mart 2026, held in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, from August 18 to 20. According to an MGTO statement, the authority used the opportunity to invite participants to next year’s event, which will be held in Macau from September 20 to 22. Next year’s event will mark the return of the travel mart to Macau after it was last held in the city in 2017. MGTO noted […]

Mercedes-AMG has announced it will compete at this year’s FIA GT World Cup in Macau with a total of three cars representing two teams. At the ninth FIA GT World Cup, Craft-Bamboo Racing will line up with record winner Maro Engel and Hong Kong’s Adderly Fong, while Lucas Auer will take the wheel of the other Mercedes-AMG GT3 for Tigani Motorsport. Mercedes-AMG is the most successful manufacturer at Guia’s GT race, having won five of the eight editions held. Two of these wins came at the hands of Engel, who took the top spot on the podium in the inaugural […]

M acau recorded 3.54 million visitor arrivals in July, up 2.4% year over year, but overnight visitors continued to decline as same-day travel drove overall growth, official data from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) showed.

In the life of a place like Macau, there is no such thing as definitive land use. All potential uses that someone, either the government or the landowner, assigns to a given piece of land are always temporary and can only span from long- to short-term.

August 25, 2026 T he retail trade sector posted a 17.2% year-over-year increase in sales value in the first half (1H) of this year, according to a survey by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).

F ollowing calls from the public and after consulting sector stakeholders, the Transport Bureau (DSAT) has decided to implement changes to the charging systems of seven car parks, which will introduce maximum parking fees starting Sept. 2.

nformation about an alleged case of human trafficking that occurred in Macau during the first half of this year is off-limits to the media due to “judicial confidentiality proceedings,” a representative from the Office of the Secretary for Security told the Times.

T he Secretary for Administration and Justice and spokesperson of the Executive Council, Wong Sio Chak, announced yesterday that the government is restructuring several entities and departments to save human and financial resources and increase efficiency.

he Macau Association of Retirees, Pensioners, and Social Security Recipients (APOMAC) submitted to Chief Executive (CE) Sam Hou Fai a set of proposals for the 2027 Policy Address, suggesting a 3% salary increase for civil servants, the creation of a new compensation model, and allowing seniors to use “Continuing Education Program funds” as health vouchers.

At a meeting between Chief Executive (CE) Sam Hou Fai and associations representing local civil servants and pensioners, ahead of the 2027 Policy Address, the association, led by lawmaker José Pereira Coutinho, called for a special retirement program for employees who become permanently unable to work because of a serious illness, regardless of their age or years of service.