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Visitor arrivals for February 2026
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that number of visitor arrivals increased by 32.6% year-on-year to 4,172,940 in February 2026, driven by the Lunar New Year holidays. Same-day visitors (2,676,431) and overnight visitors (1,496,509) rose by 41.8% and 18.8% year-on-year respectively. Meanwhile, the average length of stay of visitors shortened by 0.2 day year-on-year to 0.9 day, with that of overnight visitors decreasing by 0.1 day to 2.1 days.
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Macao Orchestra presents St. John Passion a masterpiece of Bach’s sacred music at St. Dominic’s Church on Holy Thursday
The concert “Easter Presents: Bach’s St. John Passion” of the Macao Orchestra 2025–26 Concert Season will be held on 2 April (Thursday), at the St. Dominic’s Church, the World Heritage site, at 8pm. The Macao Orchestra will join forces with renowned British conductor Laurence Cummings, several celebrated European early music vocalists and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus to present Bach’s St. John Passion, one of the representative works of the “Father of Music”, enabling the audience to refresh their minds before Good Friday and experience the faith and sanctity embodied in this work.
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Supplements for Philatelic Album of Macao 2025
Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau will release the “Supplements for Philatelic Album of Macao 2025” on 25th March 2026, and they will be available for sale at the Philatelic Shop of the General Post Office and the Communications Museum. The album pages are pre-printed with all the stamp images of 2025. Your collection of stamps and souvenir sheets of 2025 can be put into the pre-printed pages for convenient collection.
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Resolutely pursue a holistic approach to national security Continuously improve the legal system for safeguarding national security
The Legislative Assembly of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) conducted detailed examination and unanimously passed the Bill “Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Macao Special Administrative Region” today (19). The SAR Government expresses sincere gratitude to the Legislative Assembly, all sectors of the community and Macao residents for the strong sense of responsibility and unwavering patriotic sentiment demonstrated during the legislation process.
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IAM launches update of “database of pre-packaged food products” and calls for active participation by food sector
In order to accurately capture the information about the commercially available pre-packaged food products and their circulation, the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) is launching the first information update and collection this year for the existing “database of pre-packaged food products”, collecting information about the pre-packaged food products being supplied and sold on the local market from food retailers, chain supermarkets and other businesses across Macao. Upon receiving the relevant letters from IAM, members of the food sector can log in to the “food safety alert platform” (fsra.iam.gov.mo) via “Business & Associations Platform” between 23 March and 17 April and click the page of “management of pre-packaged food products” to input information about pre-packaged food products. IAM calls for active participation by the food sector to jointly reinforce Macao’s capacity to diminish food safety hazards.
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