Chief Executive Chui Sai On said Tuesday that the government would study the feasibility of setting a ratio for local employees working in managerial positions in the city’s casinos. Chui also that the government would make a deal with Macau’s six gaming operators to make sure that local casino employees be given more professional training […]
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Macau’s population reached 598,200 at the end of the September, an increase of 6,300 from the end of June, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Monday. The city’s population has gone up by 36.5 percent since the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) in December 1999, when the population stood at 438,100. […]
About 40 businesspeople from a number of associations representing different sectors of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) urged the government Thursday to simplify the hiring of non-local workers. They also expressed their opposition to the Federation of Labour Unions’ recent call for a specific law to ban non-locals from working in certain sectors. The businesspeople […]
Secretary for Economy and Finance Francis Tam Pak Yuen said Wednesday he hoped that progress be made in the next three years through the setting-up of three new centres to strengthen Macau’s role as a business-service hub between China and Portuguese-speaking countries. The three centres mentioned by Tam are a centre for small-and medium-sized enterprises […]
Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said Tuesday that a new economic and trade action plan signed by the members of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries in Macau would further affirm the importance Macau’s function as service platform by giving the city three new centres. The action plan state that […]
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang attended Tuesday the inauguration of the Hengqin Island campus of the University of Macau (UM) The inauguration, officiated by Wang, Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, UM Rector Zhao Wei, UM University Council Chair Tse Chi Wai, and National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Vice Chairman Edmund […]
China Vice Premier Wang Yang today announced eight measures, including 1.8 billion yuan ( US$ 293 million) in concessional loans, to assist the seven countries taking part in the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries (PSC) in Macau. Leaders from each country spoke at the Fourth Ministerial Conference of […]
Vice Premier Wang Yang said Monday that the central government has approved a new Macau-Guangdong border checkpoint, which will include a 450-metre-long covered bridge over the Duck Channel which runs along the Macau-Zhuhai border, Xinhua reported. According to Xinhua, Wang made the remark during a meeting with Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On. Wang arrived […]
The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) on November 4 signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tourism Ministry of Timor-Leste, to promote ties between the two sides. It was one of several agreements signed during the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries held in Macau this week. The MOU has […]
Secretary for Administration and Justice Florinda Chan Lai Man and Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung said Thursday that the two special administrative regions will further improve judiciary co-operation and work on a prisoner exchange agreement. After attending Thursday’s opening ceremony of the 57th congress of the International Union of Lawyers (UIA) at […]
Chief Executive (CE) Fernando Chui Sai On pledged Wednesday that his government would continue to look for solutions to revitalise the city’s old neighbourhoods and pledged that the government would improve social services for the mentally disabled. Chui went on a walkabout in the Patane and Rotunda de Carlos da Maia (popularly known as Three […]
The number of registered drug abusers in Macau increased by 23.5 percent year-on-year in the first half of this year, Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) Director Iong Kong Io said Wednesday. The statistics from the bureau shows that there were 584 registered drug abusers in 2012, a decrease from 633 in the previous year. The number […]