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The Judiciary Police (PJ) Tuesday busted a Vietnamese drug-trafficking gang that operated in Macau for at least five months, leading to the arrests of nine suspects – two women and seven men. PJ spokesman Vong Chi Hong announced the case after the arrests were made. The suspects are aged between 23 and 33. According to […]

Responding to concerns that individual polling booths shrouded in a cloth would make it simple for voters to take a photo of their ballot paper to show who they voted for, especially if they had been coerced into voting for a particular group, the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) said in a statement Monday […]

Just 7,650 votes could be enough to win a directly-elected seat in Sunday’s Legislative Assembly ballot, according to an article by local political scientist Paulo Godinho in the Portuguese-language daily Tribuna de Macau on Friday. This would mean that 4.5 percent of the total number of votes would suffice to win one of the 14 […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Sunday he had noticed different opinions about the performance of the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL). However, he insisted that the committee always acted in line with the law. Chui made the remarks to reporters in the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal before he left Macau for the […]

Guangdong, one of China’s economic powerhouses, is conducting a feasibility study of a free trade zone (FTZ) in cooperation with the neighboring Hong Kong and Macau special administrative regions, according to the newspaper China Daily. The paper said that officials in the southern province have been urged to apply “immediately” for central government approval to […]

According to a statement by the Public Security Police (PSP), more than half of the 20 electoral groups vying for 14 seats in the legislature in the September 15 ballot are suspected of running illegal campaign activities. The statement reminded the 145 candidates to heed the Legislative Assembly Election Law and campaign guidelines provided by […]

Considering that many of SJM’s gaming venues failed air quality assessment tests carried out by the government earlier this year, Sociedade de Jogos de Macau (SJM) Chairman Ambrose So Shu Fai said Tuesday that it would be better to implement a full smoking ban in the city’s casinos rather than having a transition period. However, […]

A two-week campaign for the Macau Legislative Assembly started on Saturday and will end at midnight on September 13. There are a total of 20 groups comprising 145 candidates vying for 14 directly-elected seats in the September 15 direct elections. The Macao Legislative Assembly will see its number of seats increased from 29 to 33 […]

Responding to Top Builders International Co. Ltd., the company responsible for constructing the light rail transit (LRT) depot in Taipa which has admitted that it has fallen behind schedule due to a “soil issue” and hinted that it may take the government to court over the issue, Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si […]