Macao sees 14.7 pct rise in visitor arrivals in 2025

The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) of China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) said on Friday that visitor arrivals to the SAR rose by 14.7 percent year-on-year in 2025.

A total of 40,069,360 visitor arrivals were recorded in the year, the statistics department said, adding that same-day visitors and overnight visitors rose by 24.6 percent and 3.1 percent year on year, respectively. Regarding the source of visitors, the DSEC noted that visitors from the Chinese mainland increased by 18.5 percent year on year, while those from Hong Kong SAR and China's Taiwan region increased by 1.7 percent and 19.4 percent, respectively. International visitors increased by 13.7 percent year on year to 2,755,474. Land entry continued to be the primary mode of arrival, seeing more than 33.084 million inbound visitors, which accounted for 82.6 percent of the total and reflected a year-on-year increase of 19.1 percent.

Macao sees 14.7 pct rise in visitor arrivals in 2025

Russian forces attacked Ukraine's energy infrastructure overnight on Saturday, for the second time in less than a week, Ukraine's Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said.

The strikes targeted the Burshtyn and Dobrotvir thermal power plants in western Ukraine, as well as substations and overhead transmission lines, the minister said.

He further said personnel unloaded units at nuclear power plants as a precautionary measure.

Ukraine's state-run energy company Ukrenergo has requested emergency assistance from Poland in the wake of the attack, Shmyhal added, while the company said it has imposed emergency power outages across most of the country.

The previous attack on Ukraine's energy facilities was carried out on Tuesday.

Russia attacks Ukraine's energy infrastructure 2nd time in a week: Ukrainian authorities