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Four charred bodies were found inside a boutique in Macau after a suspicious fire ripped through the ground-floor shop early Wednesday. Police are investigating whether the blaze was started deliberately. “The four bodies were burned beyond recognition. We cannot identify even their gender,” a fire department spokesman, Lam Io-fan, said. Lam said some circumstances of […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On Tuesday called for residents’ understanding for their annual cash handout next year remaining unchanged at 9,000 patacas, adding he hoped a 6.75 percent increase in public servants’ salaries could take effect on January 1. He also said that according to some surveys his performance over the past five years […]

All the government’s five policy secretaries will change but one of Macau’s three commissioners will stay on, informed sources told The Macau Post Daily Monday. According to the sources, who asked not to be named, Secretary for Administration and Justice Florinda Chan Lai Man will be replaced by Chan Hoi Fan, director of the Personal […]

Macau’s population reached 631,000 at the end of the third quarter, up by about 7,000 quarter-to-quarter due to an increase in imported labour, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Monday. According to the statement, females accounted for 50.6 percent of the population. The number of non-resident workers (imported labour) rose by 7,567 between the […]

Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director Wong Wan said yesterday that taxi fares may be increased by the end of the year. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the open-air Macau Forum, a one-hour weekly public affairs debate hosted by government broadcaster TDM, Wong said he expected the fare rise to include an increase in the […]

Businessman and member of the Executive Council of Macau, Lionel Leong Vai Tac will be the next Secretary for Economy and Finance of Macau, according to today´s Tribuna de Macau. The Macau newspaper also said that  Wong Sio Chak, director of Judiciary Police, will be the next Secretary for Security. The paper also said that […]

Grassroots lawmaker Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong said Thursday he hoped that a new round of political reform can begin next year, in time for the introduction of universal suffrage in 2019. He made the plea on the sidelines of a forum held by the New Macau Association (NMA) outside the University of Macau (UM) library […]

The Judiciary Police (PJ) picked up four Fujianese men Wednesday for jamming telecom networks and sending out junk text messages to people crossing the border from five flats in a residential building opposite the Barrier Gate checkpoint. PJ spokesman Vong Chi Hong said at the entrance of the Jardim do Mar do Sul Building that […]

Advocacy group Rainbow of Macau said  Wednesday it would launch a postcard campaign to encourage residents, particularly Macau’s LGBT community, to urge the government to include same-sex cohabitants on the list of couples who will be protected in its domestic violence prevention bill. LGBT is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. […]