Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said that the government aims to turn Macau into a “cultural exchange centre”
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The police busted a fake VIP gaming room in a hotel suite in Nape on Wednesday and arrested 19 gang members from the mainland.
The University of Macau (UM) has completed the admission process for the 2017/18 academic year and it has admitted a total of 1,535 local students.
Macau Foundation President, Wu Zhiliang, said that local businessman did not make a profit from a deal in which a palatial mansion in Lisbon was sold to the foundation.
Transport Bureau Director Lam Hin San announced on Monday that the city’s taxi fares will be raised on Sunday, with the flagfall increased by 11.8 percent, from 17 to 19 patacas, and the distance for subsequent incremental charges to be shortened from 260 to 240 metres.
Local animal protection group Anima urged the government to allow it to take over the greyhound racetrack in Fai Chi Kei for one year, after the Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. shuts down its business there in July next year, so that the association would have enough time to rehabilitate the greyhounds for adoption overseas.
Uber is pulling out of Macau from the 22nd July onwards after 600 days of fruitless battles with the local regulatory body.
The Labour Affairs Bureau has ordered the full or partial suspension of 20 construction projects after inspecting 74 construction sites on Saturday.
Former chief prosecutor Ho Chio Meng was sentenced to 21 years of imprisonment. After hearing the verdict, Ho screamed “injustice” and that “he didn’t owe anything” before being removed from the court.