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Red Cross Macau Disaster Relief Affairs Officer Patrick Tam Wai Iat said Monday that even though 500 relief packages sent by Macau have already arrived in the quake-hit area of north-eastern Yunnan, it proved difficult for staff to deliver them to the victims since road blocks were set up on many roads while others were […]

Macau’s population stood at 624,000 at the end of June, 9,500 more people than in the first quarter due to rising numbers of non-resident workers, the Statistics and Census Services announced. Females accounted for 50.8 percent (316,800 people) of the total. At the end of the second quarter of this year there were 155,310 non-resident […]

Chief government spokesperson Alexis Tam Chon Weng said Sunday there were some government officials who needed to improve their job performance. He also said that mutual trust between the general public and the government was vital, saying that any lack of it would mean that it is difficult for the government to get things done. […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Thursday he wasn’t a person who simply does what people ask him to do and insisted that his government’s policy-making is based on scientific data. Asked by a reporter for claims that in the run-up to his re-election campaign he seemed just to do what people wanted him […]

CTM recorded a net profit of HK$531.6 million in the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of 7.1 percent, CITIC Telecom International Holdings said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange . According to the statement, CTM’s turnover rose 7.8 percent in the first six months. “Such increase in turnover was […]

Melco Crown Entertainment said Thursday that its second-quarter net revenue dropped seven percent year-on-year to US$1.19 billion “The decline in net revenue was primarily attributable to lower group-wide rolling chip revenues, partially offset by improved mass-market table games revenues,” the company said in a statement. VIP gamblers use so-called rolling chips which can’t be cashed […]

Health Bureau (SSM) Director Lei Chin Ion said Wednesday that all the necessary measures have been taken in line with World Health Organisation (WHO) instructions to deal with any possible cases of the Ebola virus. Macau’s health chief also said that local medical staff were “capable” and facilities were “adequate” to deal with the possible […]

The Office of the Government Spokesperson announced Wednesday that the government has donated 100 million patacas to the Yunnan earthquake relief effort. The temblor struck the province’s Zhaotong prefecture on Sunday. The statement said that Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On informed the central government about the decision, saying the government would continue to provide […]

Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT) Director Lei Chan Tong said Monday that his office had decided to extend the public consultation period for the northern peninsula section of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) to provide citizens with more time to understand the information put out on the government’s three proposals so that they will be able […]