Authors from more than 10 different countries will gather at The Macau Literary Festival – The Script Road that will begin on the 5th of March 2016. This year, writers, artists and musicians will come from Macau, Hong Kong and the Portuguese speaking countries, Ireland, Australia, Spain, Wales, Sweden, Philippines and the United States. “We […]
Year: 2016
The central government will keep supporting Macau to become a yuan clearing platform between China and the Portuguese-speaking bloc, Yao Jian, deputy director of the Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau, said on Wednesday. Yao made the remarks when addressing a seminar jointly hosted by the Bank of China Macau Branch (BOC Macau) and […]
Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said internal “house cleaning” over the past year was difficult but necessary, as rogue officers give the police a bad name. Wong made the remarks during a speech at a media dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel in Cotai. A number of police corruption cases erupted over the last […]
Lawmakers approved on Wednesday the outline of a government-drafted bill to increase the minimum prison terms for the selling of drugs from the current three years to five years, as well as the minimum and maximum sentences for drug-taking. Government officials including Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan and Judiciary Police (PJ) […]
The Secretary for Security warned of the increasing sophistication of high-tech and computer crime and the difficulty of laws to keep pace with it. At the end of 2014, Wong Sio Chak took responsibility for law and order as security chief in the SAR, nearly 16 years after joining the police force. “The criminals want […]
The Secretary for Economy and Finance, Lionel Leong, was in Beijing last week to witness the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and the Guangdong-Macau Traditional Chinese Medicine Technology Industrial Park Development. The secretary said that Macau intends to use the ties forged with Lusophone […]
Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Chau Wai Kuong said on Tuesday that the risk of a terrorist attack locally is “relatively low”. Chau made the remarks on the sidelines of a meeting with the Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations (“Kai Fong”) and the Macau Property Management Association at the PJ headquarters. According to the 2016 […]
The Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture hailed the improvements in staffing at major hospitals in his first year in office and praised the cultural legacy given to the city by the Portuguese. Alexis Tam Chon Weng has a wide brief, with the four main sectors of medicine, education, culture and leisure. The Secretary has […]
The government will come up with measures to attract more mainland and foreign students to study in Macau, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said estimating that the number of new high-school graduates will decrease over the next five years and level out at about 3,500. “We’ll not have enough local […]