Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Wong Sio Chak said Tuesday that PJ officers investigated 308 alleged cyber crimes between June last year and May this year, an increase of 78 percent on the same previous period. According to The Macau Post Daily, Wong revealed the figure during a speech at an award ceremony marking the 53rd […]
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The Audit Commission (CA) has criticised the government’s Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) for its failure to come up with an overall budget for the Taipa Pac On Ferry Terminal project for which its 2005 budget was 580 million patacas that increased to 3.2 billion patacas after the original project was enlarged. The hard-hitting report also […]
Macau’s 99 hotels and guesthouses recorded 4.33 million guests in the first five months of this year, an increase of 16.9 percent on the same period of last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Monday. The growth rate of hotel guests largely outpaced the three percent increase in visitor arrivals to 11.8 million […]
The recent hacking of 34 CTM clients e-mail addresses included several email accounts of local government bureaus, Chief Executive Chui Sai On told reporters Wednesday. Chui made the comment on the sidelines of a public function. The 34 e-mail addresses were attacked by hackers whose IP addresses were in the United States and Hong Kong, […]
A survey conducted by the private Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) found that the high cost of housing and inflation have significantly lowered Macau’s consumer confidence for the last four years. The results of the survey on Macau’s Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) for the second quarter of this year compared to all previous […]
Hackers from Hong Kong and the US have attacked e-mail addresses of a local telecom operator’s clients, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said after initial findings from an investigation into an alleged cyber-attack incident. The PJ statement said that a local telecom operator reported on Friday an alleged cyber-attack on 34 of its clients’ e-mail addresses. […]
Foreign migrants may be able to get assistance in adapting to the local culture and way of life as the government is planning to start a special social service for them, the head of the Social Welfare Bureau’s (IAS) department responsible for family and community support services, Au Chi Keung, told reporters Sunday. Au made […]
The government has launched a three-month trial run of the city’s first electric bus, during which all journeys will be free of charge for passengers. Lo Seng Chi, who heads the Transport Bureau’s Traffic Management Department, said the government had to pay about 990,000 patacas to lease the e-bus from the Shenzhen-based manufacturer for the […]
Chief Executive (CE) Fernando Chui Sai On said Wednesday that he respects residents’ right to assemble and protest as a way of voicing their opinions, adding that he and his officials listen to the public on a daily basis. But he also stressed that the public should express their viewpoints in a non-violent, reasonable and […]
Chief Executive (CE) Fernando Chui Sai On told reporters Wednesday that he had sent a letter to the US Consulate General for Hong Kong and Macau to find out whether or not Washington’s Web spying programme involves snooping on local Internet networks. Chui’s remarks came in the wake of recent controversy surrounding the US National […]
Falling tiles and concrete crumbling off buildings are being more widely reported in the media as threatening public safety, Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations Vice President Wong Chou Tim said Tuesday, urging the government to make building maintenance compulsory to stop the situation from getting worse. The association is customarily known as Kai Fong. […]
Several hundred real-estate agents Monday marched to express their discontent over a newly-enacted law regulating the city’s property agents and agencies, claiming the law will “kill” their business. According to The Macau Post many of the protesters were carrying banners claiming that the law will kill their business and that it is violating privacy. They […]