Lawmakers Tuesday elected the presidents and secretaries of the Legislative Assembly’s seven committees – the Committee on Rules and Statutes, 1st Standing, 2nd Standing and 3rd Standing Committees, Follow-up Committee for Land and Public Concession Affairs, Follow-up Committee for Public Finance Affairs, and Follow-up Committee for Public Administration Affairs. According to The Macau Post Daily, […]
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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) education should be included in the local school curriculum to improve TCM education and research levels in tertiary education which could result in more local TCM professionals in the future, State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SATCM) Director Wang Guoqiang said Tuesday. Wang made the suggestion after attending the opening ceremony […]
Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On has appointed local businessman Peter Lam Kam Seng, an executive member of the public Macau Foundation (FM) and chairman of the Macau Science Centre, to the Executive Council (ExCo), the government’s top advisory body, according to a statement published in the Official Gazette (BO) Monday. According to the statement, […]
Macau recorded 21.9 million visitor arrivals in the first nine months, a year-on-year growth of five percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Thursday. Visitors from the mainland and South Korea rose by 12 percent and 5.8 percent respectively, while those from Hong Kong and Taiwan dropped by 4.5 percent and 9.5 percent. In […]
Hollywood Roosevelt from Los Angeles is making Macau its Asian debut with an investment of two billion patacas to build a 400-room 1950s Hollywood-themed hotel next to the Macau Jockey Club in Taipa. The hotel is slated to be operational between the middle and the end of 2015. The ground-breaking ceremony for the Hollywood Roosevelt […]
The corruption trial of Hong Kong businessmen Steven Lo Kit-sing and Joseph Lau Luen-hung resumed Monday, with Lo’s lawyers asserting that Macau’s anti-graft agency did not have evidence to prove a direct connection between Lo and Macau’s disgraced public works chief Ao Man-long. Lo, chairman of BMA Investment, and Lau, chairman of Chinese Estates, are […]
Macau Juvenile Delinquency Research Society Chairman Chiang Cheok Meng called Monday for better sex education in local schools. Claiming that pupils’ sex education was lacking, Chiang called on teachers to give them more comprehensive sex education lessons. According to The Macau Post Daily, Chiang, who is a social worker and care worker by profession, made […]
The declared assets of Macau’s 13 principal officials, 29 lawmakers, 76 judges and public prosecutors, 10 Executive Council (ExCo) members and 12 chiefs- of-cabinet of the principal officers have been uploaded to the court website and can be accessed in by the public on http://www.court.gov.mo/zh/subpage/property-search. However, the asset declarations made public only contain basic data […]
Macau’s 97 hotels and guesthouses recorded 7.12 million guests in the first eight months of this year, up 14.4 percent on the same period of last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced Thursday. The number of hotel guests accounted for 36.4 percent of the number of visitor arrivals in the first eight months. […]
Newly-elected Legislative Assembly (AL) President Ho Iat Seng voiced his support Wednesday on broadcasting the legislature’s plenary sessions in full as a way to improve the public’s right to information and monitor the performance of lawmakers and government officials. Ho spoke to journalists after hosting the first plenary session in the new legislative term. The […]
Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si Io said Wednesday that Telecommunications Regulation Bureau (DSRT) chief Lawrence Tou Veng Keong’s sudden transfer to the post of advisor to his office was a “normal” change in personnel. He made the remarks to reporters after hosting the opening ceremony of a conference on the development of […]
The central government’s Foreign Ministry Commission in Macau has issued a strongly worded statement to reject “irresponsible remarks” by the US Congress about Macau’s internal affairs. The “strong protest,” which was issued late Monday, said that the 2013 Annual Report by the Congressional Executive Commission on China ignored Macau’s realities. According to The Macau Post […]