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Health statistics 2018
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the 5 hospitals in Macao provided a total of 1,604 in-patient beds in 2018, up by 8 year-on-year. Number of in-patients increased by 2.2% year-on-year to 60,000, with the average hospital stay rising by 0.2 day to 7.2 days. The occupany rate of in-patient beds grew by 3.6 percentage points to 74.4%, owing to the increases in the number of in-patients and the average hospital stay.
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Consumer Council released 6th supermarket price survey report of the current month
The Consumer Council conducted its ‘Supermarket price survey’ of the second-half of May on 23 May for the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June. Surveyed locations included 7 supermarkets in Taipa and Coloane Parish. Consumers may now check the report data on the Council’s website (www.consumer.gov.mo), the “Supermarket Price Information Platform” app, or the Council’s WeChat account.
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Economist Lawrence Lau to give talk at UM next Thursday on Sino-US trade war
The University of Macau (UM) on 30 May (next Thursday) will hold a talk, titled ‘The China-US Trade War: Challenges and Opportunities for China, the Greater Bay Area and Macao’, as part of the University Lecture Series. Prof Lawrence J Lau, a renowned economist, will be the keynote speaker. All are welcome.
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CCAC seeks to optimise legal regimes of corruption fighting and discipline of public servants
As a proactive response to the demands for optimising the integrity building in the Macao SAR and in order to step up the efforts in the fight against corruption and optimise the accountability system in the public service, following the suggestions raised by the expert team of the United Nations concerning the implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption by the Macao SAR and drawing on its experiences in corruption-fighting and ombudsmanship over recent years and those of the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, the CCAC has commenced a review of the relevant criminal regime and the discipline regime of public servants. The conclusions of the review and recommendations on the optimisation of the regimes will be revealed and rendered shortly.
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Visitor arrivals for April 2019
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 3,432,187 in April 2019, up by 15.9% year-on-year. Overnight visitors (1,624,285) grew by 5.4% whereas same-day visitors (1,807,902) surged by 27.4%. The average length of stay of visitors dropped by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.1 days as the proportion of same-day visitors (52.7%) rose by 4.7 percentage points. Overnight visitors stayed an average of 2.2 days, an increase of 0.1 day; meanwhile, the average length of stay of same-day visitors held stable at 0.2 day.
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The 14th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Asian Forum of Insurance Regulators takes place in Macao
The Monetary Authority of Macao (AMCM) hosted “The 14th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Asian Forum of Insurance Regulators (AFIR)” in Macao during 22-23 May 2019. Delegates from the insurance regulators in Asia and Oceania exchanged their views and shared their experiences on the theme of “Promoting Broader and Sustainable Insurance Market with Effective Supervisory Practices”, focusing on the challenges and opportunities brought by global climate change and innovative technology to the development of the insurance industry.
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Suncity Group Named Title Sponsor of the 66th Macau Grand Prix
Macao's annual international motorsports event, the 66th Macau Grand Prix, will be held from November 14th to 17th 2019. The Macau Grand Prix Organizing Committee (MGPOC) today (May 22nd) held a press conference at the Macao Science Center to announce that Suncity Group is the title sponsor of the event and to release the provisional race line-up.
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