March 5, 2008The Macau Science Museum near the Cultural Centre at Nape, which was expected to be completed in 2007, began to show its rough outlook.
The Science Museum, which was designed by the world renowned designer Leoh Ming Pei, is expected to cost approximately US$425 million.
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March 4, 2008The former secretary for transport and public works, Ao Man Long who took a cool US$100 million in bribes and now is serving a 27-year jail sentence for serious corruption charges, admitted yesterday to having received money from companies including Seng Meng Fai.
Ao was a witness in his family’s trial and rejected claims that his relatives and wife had knowledge of what the former secretary was doing. Ao also told the court his family did what he asked without ever questioning him or the activities involving grand sums of money and offshore accounts.
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March 3, 2008Rumors are flying that Rafael Hui Si- yan has his eyes on becoming Macau’s next chief executive. National People’s Congress Standing Committee member Dr Stanley Ho, who is in Beijing, was ominously silent about it yesterday.
The refusal by the “god of gambling” to say anything on the subject suggests that there is more to that rumor than meets the eye.
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February 29, 2008The 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 play a major role in building the bridges expected to cost between US$4-5 billion. The Hong Kong listed China Communication Construction Company and China Railway have a long history in building infrastructure projects in the mainland, Hong Kong and overseas.
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February 25, 2008The 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 billion patacas (US$386 million).
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February 23, 2008Local 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.
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February 23, 2008‘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.
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February 23, 2008The 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).
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