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 ou25 Macau’s Judiciary Police recently cracked a fraud case involving gaming concessionaires, where four suspects utilized falsified bank account details to defraud two concessionaires of over HK$17.4 million (US$2.3 million) in “non-negotiable chips”. According to case details released by the Judiciary Police, the four arrested individuals comprise three Hong Kong residents (two males and one female) and one local Macau male. The suspects allegedly applied for gambling loans from four concessionaires in early October 2025, using forged electronic bank account balance documents – including a counterfeit HK$48 million balance statement from a Hong Kong bank -for gambling purposes. Two of the concessionaires declined to grant the loans, while the other two approved them. After obtaining the loans, the suspects withdrew the “non-negotiable chips” in multiple instalments and removed them from the casinos. One concessionaire reported the incident after detecting irregularities, claimin...

 out25 Income generated from inward direct investment by outside investors in Macau’s gaming sector rose by 53.2 percent year-on-year in 2024, standing at MOP30.83 billion (US$3.86 billion), according to data released on Friday by the city’s Statistics and Census Service. Macao’s gaming sector continued to record a net outflow of inward direct investment in 2024, amounting to MOP476 million, but the outflow “narrowed” compared with the previous year, the city’s Statistics and Census Service said. “This was mainly attributable to a decrease in loan repayments by some gaming enterprises to foreign shareholders or overseas affiliates,” it added. As of the end of 2024, the stock of inward direct investment in Macau’s gaming sector totalled MOP142.35 billion, slightly down by less than 0.1 percent year-on-year, the official data showed. The gaming sector remained by far the largest contributor to the city’s total stock of inward dir...

fev26 Cancelamento de concertos criam “sentimentos negativos” Uma vaga de cancelamentos de concertos envolvendo artistas japoneses está a lançar dúvidas sobre a ambição da cidade de se afirmar como centro internacional de eventos. Para Glenn McCartney, professor associado de Gestão de Turismo e Resorts Integrados na Universidade de Macau, estas perturbações “podem gerar sentimentos negativos, não só entre os participantes, mas também entre futuros organizadores”. https://www.plataformamedia.com/2026/02/06/cancelamento-de-concertos-criam-sentimentos-negativos/ OP Macau assumiu, nos últimos anos, a ambição clara de se afirmar como uma cidade internacional de grandes eventos; capaz de ir além do Jogo e captar novos públicos, em particular os mais jovens.  Concertos , festivais e espetáculos internacionais tornaram-se peças centrais dessa estratégia, funcionando como montras globais da cidade e motores de diversificação. É precisamente por isso que a recente vaga de cancelamentos de co...