Macau’s total population – comprising residents and non-resident workers as well as non-local students – increased by 14,300 year-on-year to 667,400 at the end of last year.
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Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, said Monday that the enrolment of students from the mainland by the University of St. Joseph (USJ) “belongs to the future.”
Chief Executive Chui Sai On on Saturday held a raft of meetings in Beijing to explore further cooperation opportunities in science, technology and innovation, as well as partnerships to nurture a greater number of Macau research staff.
A flat in the Van Sion Son Chun residential estate in Fai Chi Kei was on fire Wednesday night and a man in his eighties living in the flat had no heartbeat when he was rescued by firemen
Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said Thursday that the number of child sex abuse cases recorded in 2018 rose 50 percent year-on-year, calling for joint action by the different sectors of civil society to tackle the issue.
The police arrested 71 men and women on Saturday for their alleged involvement in a loan-sharking gang controlled by a triad organisation, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lun said in a special press conference Monday.
Macau’s number of non-resident workers rose by 4.3 percent year-on-year to 188,321 at the end of last month, the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) announced, citing immigration statistics from the Public Security Police (PSP).
A Judiciary Police (PJ) officer has been suspended for the possession of unexplained wealth, the website of the Secretariat for Security (GSS) said Sunday.
The Legislative Assembly (AL) Thursday passed a government-initiated bill regulating the city’s taxi sector, according to which cabbies caught refusing to pick up passengers or overcharging four times within five years will have their taxi-driving licences cancelled.