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A record crowd joined Wednesday night’s vigil in Largo do Senado commemorating the 25th anniversary of the June 4 incident. Grassroots lawmaker Au Kam San, a leading member of the Macau Democratic Development Union which has organised the vigil every year since 1990, told reporters he estimated there were “at least” 3,000 participants, “the largest […]

The government announced Tuesday that the income caps for applicants for home-ownership scheme (HOS) flats will be increased by up to 8.5 percent, taking effect today.   According to a notice published in the Official Gazette (BO), for an individual HOS applicant, the required minimum income will be raised from 7,820 patacas a month to […]

The government announced Tuesday that the income caps for applicants for home-ownership scheme (HOS) flats will be increased by up to 8.5 percent, taking effect today. According to a notice published in the Official Gazette (BO), for an individual HOS applicant, the required minimum income will be raised from 7,820 patacas a month to 8,490 […]

About 600 local and central government officials, community leaders, members of the grieving family and friends attended the funeral of community leader Ma Man Kei at Macau Forum on Sunday. Ma passed away after a prolonged illness in Beijing on May 26 where he had been hospitalised for several years. Sources close to the family […]

After the city’s biggest protests since the 1999 handover, Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On announced Thursday at a special press conference that he had decided shelve his government’s controversial perks bill that, if passed by lawmakers as scheduled on Tuesday, would have given him and a few other principal officials lavish retirement packages in […]

The Judiciary Police (PJ) caught two Ukrainians on Monday on suspicion of stealing bank card information from local ATMs, although no card readers or micro-cameras were installed in the machines. Instead, the duo inserted a device containing malicious software (malware) into the ATMs to record data from unsuspecting customers whenever the machines were used. A […]

Former National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) vice-chairman Ma Man Kei’s remains will return from Beijing by plane to Macau today and a public memorial service will take place from 9 a.m. at Macau Forum in Zape on Sunday. A special committee has meanwhile been set up to handle Ma’s funeral […]

Thousands of residents staged a sit-in protest organised by Internet group Macau Conscience on the patch of grass outside the Legislative Assembly as lawmakers debated the government’s controversial perks bill Tuesday. Macau Conscience member Sulu Sou Ka Hou said that nearly 7,000 people attended, while the Public Security Police (PSP) estimated that 4,900 people took […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On Tuesday expressed his deep condolences to the family of Ma Man Kei, a former vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), who died on Monday in Beijing, aged 95. According to a statement from Chui’s office, Chui praised Ma’s contribution to the city […]