The Macau and Hong Kong  special administrative regions (SARs) will have electoral councils consisting of 45 percent and 17 percent more people, respectively, to elect deputies to the 12th National People’s Congress (NPC), according to the draft methods submitted to China’s top legislature for examination Thursday. The Hong Kong SAR will have 36 deputies to […]

Consul-General to Hong Kong and Macau Yuji Kumamaru Wednesday thanked Macau personally for the donations raised by several local organisations, including the HK$4 million from the Macau Red Cross, for those affected by the  earthquake  and  deadly tsunami that also led to a nuclear crisis after the tidal waves hit the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power […]

Chief Executive Chui Sai On said Tuesday in Beijing, in response to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s pledge to support Macau and Hong Kong’s democratic progress, that to strive for democracy is a natural development of any society and that every place has a history of developing its own democratic system, under the condition of stable […]

Google has been fined 30,000 patacas for taking images considered to be “sensitive information” without authorisation, illegally collecting WiFi and payload data from open WiFi networks and transferring personal information obtained from Macau’s WiFi data to the US. Personal Data Protection Office (GPDP) Co-ordinator Chan Hoi Fan made the announcement during a press conference Monday. […]

The Executive Council (ExCo) has finished discussing the two government-drafted amendment bills regarding the possible changes to two annexes of the Macau Basic Law regarding next year’s direct and indirect legislative elections and the election of the chief executive in 2014 – a short eight days after the government finished its 45-day public consultation drive […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Sunday he believed that the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) would deal“independently” with a high-profile complaint by the grassroots New Macau Association (NMA) about a controversial government land concession in Seac Pai, in Coloane island, and the alleged involvement of prominent local businessman Liu Chak Wan, who is a […]

National People Congress (NPC) Standing Committee Vice Secretary-General Qiao Xiaoyang said Thursday that “it cannot regulate the election of all members of the Macau Legislative Assembly [AL] through universal suffrage” regardless of how the method of electing the legislature in amended. Qiao also said that the Macau Basic Law states that the majority of the […]

The current methods for the election of Macau’s chief executive by an electoral committee and the formation of the legislature by directly and indirectly elected and officially appointed members must remain unchanged, while the conditions for electing the chief executive of Macau in 2014 and forming the Legislative Assembly (AL) next year can be “appropriately” […]

Macau, China, 28 Feb – Macau’s total population – comprising residents and imported workers – was estimated at 557,400 at the end of 2011, an increase of 16,800 or 3.1 percent compared with the revised figure of 540,600 at the end of 2010, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Monday. The adult population aged […]

Beijing, China, 28 Feb –  The National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, China’s top legislature, deliberated Monday a report concerning methods for the selection of Macau’s chief executive and formation of the region’s legislative council. The report on whether it is necessary to amend the methods for forming the Legislative Assembly of the Macau Special […]

Macau, China, 27 Feb – A total of 18 companies have had their bids accepted for the construction for four stations in the Cotai section of the first phase of the government’s Light Rail Transit (LRT) project – with the lowest bid amounting to 789 million patacas and the highest standing at 1.3 billions patacas, […]

Macau, China, 24 Feb – Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Thursday that his government would study allowing local social service providers to hire non-local professionals for the care of the elderly to fill manpower shortages. He made the vow during a meeting with the members of the government-appointed Senior Citizens Affairs Committee and […]