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Macau’s population is expected to reach 710,000 by 2020 and 750,000 by 2025, while the population density will increase from 20,500 inhabitants per km2 in 2014 to 21,500 people per km2 in 2020, and then to 22,700 people per km2 by 2025, the government’s Policy Research Office (GEP) forecasts in its latest report, which was […]

The office of Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said in a statement on Wednesday that it “firmly” rejected claims by the US Department that women and children are subjected to sex trafficking and forced labour in Macau. The US 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report, which was released in Washington on Monday, reached Macau on […]

Responding to public concern about Macau’s tap water safety in the wake of Hong Kong’s tainted water scare, the local government said on Wednesday that the lead levels in the water supplied to the city’s public housing estates meet World Health Organisation (WHO) standards. Government spokesman Victor Chan Chi Ping, Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) Director […]

A 22-year-old Public Security Police (PSP) male officer suspected of sexually violating at least nine teenage girls via deception and blackmail has been arrested. The officer pretended to be an unattractive young female model online in order to exchange nude photos with other younger girls. The youngest girl to fall prey to these advances was […]

Macau remains “a source territory for sex trafficking and forced labour” despite government efforts to fight human trafficking, according to the latest annual report from the U.S. State Department. The report rates 188 countries on their efforts to fight modern-day slavery. The report claims Macau prosecutors have been charging human traffickers with lighter crimes that […]

Court of Final Appeal (TUI) President Sam Hou Fai said on Monday that the local government would maintain the judiciary’s autonomy as it has done since the city’s change in administration in 1999. Sam made the remark while addressing the opening ceremony of a closed-door forum with mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and local judiciary officials, […]