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Local youth group Macau Youth Dynamics and grassroots lawmaker Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong Monday urged the government to protect a site in Coloane Village which officials believe dates back 3,000 to 3,800 years, to the late Neolithic (New Stone Age) or early Bronze Age. Lei Kuok Keong, spokesman for the group, said the government should […]

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si Io confirmed Monday  that one of the major shareholders of the new bus company which will take over Reolian’s service at the beginning of next month is TCM – one of the city’s two other bus operators. Lau made the revelation before attending a legislative committee meeting. […]

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si Io said Sunday that anyone suspected of illegally occupying public land faces criminal charges. He made the remarks to reporters after attending a public event when he was asked by reporters about about a plot of land in Coloane that the government claims has been illegally occupied […]

An assessment about whether Macau has achieved its targets to improve the environment, stipulated by the government in an environmental protection planning report, shows that six indicators out of nine have achieved the short term targets while the rate of rubbish recycling failed to reach the target. The other two indicators could not be assessed […]

A record crowd joined Wednesday night’s vigil in Largo do Senado commemorating the 25th anniversary of the June 4 incident. Grassroots lawmaker Au Kam San, a leading member of the Macau Democratic Development Union which has organised the vigil every year since 1990, told reporters he estimated there were “at least” 3,000 participants, “the largest […]

The government announced Tuesday that the income caps for applicants for home-ownership scheme (HOS) flats will be increased by up to 8.5 percent, taking effect today.   According to a notice published in the Official Gazette (BO), for an individual HOS applicant, the required minimum income will be raised from 7,820 patacas a month to […]

The government announced Tuesday that the income caps for applicants for home-ownership scheme (HOS) flats will be increased by up to 8.5 percent, taking effect today. According to a notice published in the Official Gazette (BO), for an individual HOS applicant, the required minimum income will be raised from 7,820 patacas a month to 8,490 […]

About 600 local and central government officials, community leaders, members of the grieving family and friends attended the funeral of community leader Ma Man Kei at Macau Forum on Sunday. Ma passed away after a prolonged illness in Beijing on May 26 where he had been hospitalised for several years. Sources close to the family […]

After the city’s biggest protests since the 1999 handover, Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On announced Thursday at a special press conference that he had decided shelve his government’s controversial perks bill that, if passed by lawmakers as scheduled on Tuesday, would have given him and a few other principal officials lavish retirement packages in […]