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Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said Thursday that a public tender for the new health complex in Cotai is already underway, reaffirming that he is confident that it will be up and running in 2017. Speaking to reporters Thursday after a meeting between government officials and representatives of Macau’s social […]

The Macau Society for the Protection of Animals (ANIMA) was told by a resident on Wednesday that a stray kitten had been hung on metal bars with plastic bamboo scaffolding ties. The association said in a statement on its Facebook page Thursday that a small white-and-black kitten was found dead in an abandoned house in […]

Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan said Wednesday that the local government would do its best to ink a mutual legal assistance agreement with its Hong Kong counterpart this year. Asked by reporters as to whether the agreement will be applied to fugitives fleeing justice from either jurisdiction whose cases predate it, […]

Li Gang, director of the Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau, said Tuesday that the city’s gaming industry’s current revenue decline was due to several causes and the effort the central government is putting into combating corruption was not the main cause, adding that “extremely few” corrupt mainland officials had gambled in the city. […]

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng vowed Tuesday that the government will come up with measures to help local social service groups tackle the problem of exorbitant rents and the shortage of professionals, adding that the government would consider purchasing industrial buildings so that the groups can lease them at an […]

The Commission of Audit (CA) slammed the Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT) Monday for its failure to control the budget for the first phase of the construction of the city’s light transit railway (LRT), which increased from its initial budget in 2007 of 4.2 billion patacas to 14.3 billion patacas in 2012. The report pointed out […]