Day: May 5, 2014

Women’s rights activist-cum-Good Shepherd Centre Director Juliana Devoy left for Geneva on Friday to speak to the United Nations’ Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) about Macau’s penalties for domestic violence on Thursday and Friday, where she will argue that the government’s classification of domestic violence as a semi-public crime is a violation […]

Directly-elected lawmaker Jose Pereira Coutinho predicts that just two of the government’s five policy secretaries will remain in the Cabinet. Coutinho told government broadcaster TDM’s Portuguese-language channel Radio Macau on Saturday that while Lau Sio Io will stay on as Secretary for Transport and Public Works, Cheong U will also stay on but move from […]