Chinese Estates Holdings said in a statement Wednesday that its wholly owned subsidiary Moon Ocean “may lodge an appeal” if the local government decides to invalidate a land concession near the local airport where the company is constructing the La Scala luxury residential development. The company headed by Hong Kong property tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-hung […]
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The Legislative Assembly (AL) Tuesday approved the two government-drafted amendment bills regarding changes to two annexes of the Macau Basic Law concerning next year’s direct and indirect legislative elections and the election of the chief executive in 2014. Four lawmakers – Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong, Au Kam San, Chan Wai Chi and Jose Pereira Coutinho […]
The government Monday announced for the first time the composition of its public housing programme, revealing that it consists of 10,064 low-rent social housing flats and 9,196 subsidised home-ownership scheme (HOS) flats. Housing Bureau (IH) President Tam Kuong Man disclosed the figures when briefing reporters about the progress of the Seac Pai Van public housing […]
Over 700 people including locals, mainlanders and expatriates took part in a candlelight vigil in Largo de S. Domingos Monday night to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen incident. As usual, the vigil was organised by the grassroots Union for Democratic Development Macau (UMDD). At 8 p.m. participants started lighting candles and observed five […]
Macau’s Court of Final Appeal Thursday sentenced the government’s former secretary for transport and public works, Ao Man-long, to 29 years in jail for accepting bribes, among them from two prominent Hong Kong businessmen, and for money laundering. The sentence of his third graft trial will be served concurrently with Ao’s earlier jail term of […]
Macau’s re-exports rose 28.4 percent year-on-year to 1.85 billion patacas in the first four months, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Thursday. Re-exports accounted for 70.7 percent of total exports between January and April. Domestic exports increased merely 2.8 percent to 768 million patacas. While total exports rose 19.6 percent to 2.62 billion patacas, […]
Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Wednesday that the Macau and Guangdong governments were in the last stages of finalising their joint proposal to build a new border checkpoint, complete with a 450-metre-long covered bridge over the Duck Channel along the Macau-Zhuhai border. Chui made the remarks to reporters upon return from a five-day […]
Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On attended Tuesday the opening ceremony of a sports complex financed by Macau, as part of the Sichuan province’s reconstruction after the 2008 earthquake. Chui and former CE Edmund Ho Hau Wah, along with other Macau delegation members, attended the high-profile ceremony with large-scale folk dance performances, sports matches, and […]
Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si Io said Tuesday that the government would reveal information about the five plots of land allegedly involved in the mega-graft scandal of disgraced policy secretary Ao Man Long after the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) announces its ruling tomorrow on Ao’s third trial. Ao is accused of […]
Chief Executive Chui Sai On promised on Friday that his government would abide by all the rulings made by local courts regarding the mega-graft scandal of disgraced policy secretary Ao Man Long and insisted that his government would never interfere in the judicial process. He made the pledges to reporters before his departure to Beijing […]
Hong Kong property tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-hung and entertainment mogul Steven Lo Kit-sing will stand trial in Macau for alleged bribery and money laundering linked to the mega-graft scandal of disgraced policy secretary Ao Man Long, a judicial source confirmed to The Macau Post Daily Thursday. According to the source both Lau and his business […]
Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT)’s Urban Planning Department Chief Lao Iong said Thursday that the government later this year will start construction of 2,356 public housing flats on two plots that originally were a squatters’ area in Ilha Verde. Lao make the announcement during a press conference to detail the current progress of […]