All the about 200 cars and motorcycles racing in the Macau Grand Prix this weekend will have to pass a noise test, a new rule imposed by the Grand Prix committee this year based on the standard set by the FIA to control the impact of noise on local residents. Initial noise tests began yesterday. […]
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Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director Wong Wan said yesterday that taxi fares may be increased by the end of the year. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the open-air Macau Forum, a one-hour weekly public affairs debate hosted by government broadcaster TDM, Wong said he expected the fare rise to include an increase in the […]
Businessman and member of the Executive Council of Macau, Lionel Leong Vai Tac will be the next Secretary for Economy and Finance of Macau, according to today´s Tribuna de Macau. The Macau newspaper also said that Wong Sio Chak, director of Judiciary Police, will be the next Secretary for Security. The paper also said that […]
The government urged the public Thursday not to use their cars but take public transport so as not to make traffic worse during the four-day Grand Prix event next week where many roads will be blocked for motor-racing while meter parking spaces and roadside parking in off-peak hours near the circuit will be temporarily suspended. […]
Grassroots lawmaker Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong said Thursday he hoped that a new round of political reform can begin next year, in time for the introduction of universal suffrage in 2019. He made the plea on the sidelines of a forum held by the New Macau Association (NMA) outside the University of Macau (UM) library […]
The Judiciary Police (PJ) picked up four Fujianese men Wednesday for jamming telecom networks and sending out junk text messages to people crossing the border from five flats in a residential building opposite the Barrier Gate checkpoint. PJ spokesman Vong Chi Hong said at the entrance of the Jardim do Mar do Sul Building that […]
Advocacy group Rainbow of Macau said Wednesday it would launch a postcard campaign to encourage residents, particularly Macau’s LGBT community, to urge the government to include same-sex cohabitants on the list of couples who will be protected in its domestic violence prevention bill. LGBT is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. […]
Macau posted a trade deficit of 57 890 billion patacas (US$7.2 billion) from January to September, which was a year on year increase of 12 percent, the region’s Statistics and Census Bureau reported. In the first nine months of the year, Macau exported goods worth 7.29 billion patacas, up 8 percent from the same period […]
A banner that read in Chinese “Macau Also Wants Real Universal Suffrage” was hung on the external wall of the University of Macau (UM) library on its new Hengqin campus Tuesday, but was removed by security guards in less than an hour. The banner was hung on the UM Wu Yee Sun Library sometime after […]