The Second Beijing Youth Drama Festival presents a diverse selection of plays
Macao's foreign exchange reserves hit US$17.63 billion at the end of July, according to estimated figures released by the Monetary Authority of the Special Administrative Region on Friday.The July figure indicates a year-on-year growth of 17% compared with last July, but a dip of 0.8% when compared with the June...
Dec. 4, 2008 (China Knowledge) - Macau's casino revenues in November rose 2.6% year-on-year to hit 7.55 billion patacas, snapping a decline for the second consecutive month since September, the South China Morning Post reported...
Dec. 3, 2008 (China Knowledge) - Macau Gambling operator Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd<27> announced its unit Galaxy Entertainment Finance Co Ltd has commenced tender offers to buy back US$350 million worth of bonds. The company...
Nov. 24, 2008 (China Knowledge) - Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd<27>, the Macau gaming operator controlled by the family of property and construction businessman Lui Che-woo, announced that it plans to push back the opening of...
A freight truck driven by a Shandong Province man surnamed Li is seen with its emergency cardboard windshield after the truck was stopped by traffic cops on November 18 after driving virtually blind for 400 kilometers from Wuhan, Hubei Province enroute to Macao. Li, who was reportedly blue with c...
Sands China Ltd., which operates three casinos in Macao, raised HK$19.4 billion ($2.5 billion) in its initial public offering in Hong Kong on November 16, hitting the bottom of the share price range. The company sold 1.87 billion shares at HK$10.38 each, the low end of a HK$10.38 to HK$13.88 pric...
US search giant Google launched Monday a Chinese version of its voice search service for mobile phones for a market with at least 700 million mobile users. The service is available for the Nokia S60 phone in China's mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. A query of an address in Chinese can retur...
The government of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) has provided allowances to local employers who hire young people under 26 with no working experience, the Macao Daily Times reported Friday. The authorities have used different channels to provide teenagers with up-to-date employment...
Cantonese Opera or Yueju Opera which originated in Guangdong Province, was recently included on the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List after a joint application from Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao. This is the second style of Chinese folk opera listed as a world heritage after Kunqu Opera i...