Macau, China, 23 Sept – Macau Legislative Election General Auditing Committee announced Tuesday the official results of the election of the fourth Legislative Assembly of Macau, according to Xinhua news agency. The new legislature is composed of 29 seats including 12 directly-elected seats, 10 indirectly-elected seats, and seven others which will be appointed by the […]
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Macau, China, 21 Sept – The Development Union (UPD) of the Macau Trade Unions Federation and the two groups of the grass-roots New Macau Association (NMA), headed by pro-democracy legislators Ng Kuok Cheong and Au Kam San respectively, are the big winners of yesterday’s direct legislative election, according to preliminary final figures released by the […]
Macau, China, 30 Sep – Backed by China’s central government, Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) has experienced a decade of progress and development, the SAR’s chief said on Tuesday. As the nation celebrates the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China this year, the SAR will also enter a new stage of development, said […]
Macau, China, 17 Sep – Macau Health Bureau (SSM) announced Wednesday another 142 new cases of swine flu raising the total number so far to 2,083, including one fatality. The Bureau said among the 142 new patients 73 were males and 69 females with age ranging from 9 months to 79 years old. According to […]
Zhuhai, China, 15 Sept – The Mayor of the Chinese municipality of Zhuhai, which borders Macau, said Monday that work had begun on making Hengqin Island into one of the three strategic new zones in China following Pudong in Shanghai and Binhai in Tianjin, according to Macauhub agency. Zhong Shijian said that Zhuhai planned to […]
Macau, 14 Sept – Macau’s 86 hotels recorded 525,731 guests in July, an increase of 17.9 percent from the previous month, The Macau Post Daily reported yesterday, citing figures of the Macau Statistics and Census Service. However, the number of guests in July was down 10.5 percent compared with the same month last year. Mainlanders […]
Beijing, China, 13 Aug – China’s President Hu Jintao met Wednesday with Macau’s new Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On and expressed the central government’s trust and support to him, according to Xinhua news agency. "Macau is right now at a fresh historic starting point.As the new chief executive of the Macau Special Administration Region […]
Macau, China, 10 Set – Addressing rising discontent, combat rising corruption and introduce measures to support the struggling economy will be some of the main challenges facing the future Macau’s Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, according to the September Economist Intelligence Report Unit (EIU). The report said that "Chui Sai On’s challenges include responding […]
Macau, China, 8 Sept – Macau Health Bureau (SSM) director Lei Chin Ion announced Monday that new prevention measures will be implemented from today because the swine flu virus is spreading in the territory. SSM announced Monday another 85 new cases of swine flu raising the total number so far to 1,352, including one fatality. […]
Macau, China, 04 Sept – Millions of tourists passing between Macau and mainland China can expect shorter wait times following completion of the Portas de Cerco border gate expansion at the end of next year. More than 170 million patacas (about US$ 22 million) is being spent to increase the border gate’s capacity from 300,000 […]
Macau, China, 3 Sep- A 40-year old woman became Wednesday Macau’s first swine flu fatality, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced. The woman had worked in the personnel department of the Grand Lisboa casino-hotel. The SSM had reported the woman’s critical condition at the ICU of the government hospital on August 18 for the first time. […]
Macau, China, 2 Sep- The total number of influenza A (H1N1) cases in Macau exceeded 1,000 as the condition of the woman patient who has been in the intensive care unit deteriorated Tuesday. The Macau Health Bureau (SSM) reported 48 new cases of swine flu between Monday and Tuesday taking the number to 1,001. The […]