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Macau: RMB clearing amount jumps 14 pct in H1
Closing editor: Luís Gonçalves
Public consultation on HK-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge commercial development
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Air Macau reports less passenger occupancy in Q1
Iao Kun loses US$5.51 billion in first half of year PAGE 6
Year IV
Number 830 Wednesday July 8, 2015
Publisher: Paulo A. Azevedo
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Housing Bureau Broadside It’s been up and running only six months. But the Housing Bureau’s new Islands Office has already handled more than 100 complaints and violations. Related to the activities of real estate agencies in Taipa and Coloane. Illegal contracts drafted for clients. The provision of agency activities without an official licence. And not informing the Housing Bureau of business closure. More citizens are speaking up, too, in a realisation of their rights PAGE
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Pyrrhic Victory American think tank Brookings put the MSAR economy at the top of Asia Pacific. Thanks to employment growth in 2014. GDP contracted 2.4 pct but employment grew 7.6 pct. Macau led the rankings, in which 8 of the 10 best performing cities were Chinese
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CHINA MENGNIU DAIRY C
+1.94
MTR CORP LTD
+1.61
CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS
+1.35
CLP HOLDINGS LTD
+1.15
AIA GROUP LTD
+1.11
PING AN INSURANCE GRO
-3.89
CHINA MERCHANTS HOLD
-4.90
BELLE INTERNATIONAL HO
-4.98
CHINA RESOURCES LAND
-5.39
HONG KONG EXCHANGES
-5.53
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The benchmark stock index. It has lost more than a quarter of its value since peaking on June 12. The Shanghai market fell 1.3 pct yesterday. Macau remains a strong market for the hotel industry. The coming years will be Even as the gov’t rolled out a flurry of telling, says hotelier Josef Dolp. Who puts great faith in the hardware coming measures to reverse the falling trend online. And the 2.3 billion middle-class customers just five hours away
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July 7
Source: Bloomberg
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Broken brakes
HSI - Movers
World centre of tourism and leisure takes a knock It doesn’t make good reading for Macau. Hong Kong Polytechnic University researchers deliver far from good news for the MSAR. Of eight Asian regions studied, Macau rated last in terms of tourist satisfaction. Oz topped the rankings. The yardsticks were attractions, transportation, hotels, immigration, restaurants and retail shops
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