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Father Lancelote Rodrigues, popularly known as Macau’s “refugee priest,” died in Kiang Wu Hospital Monday. Macau Caritas Secretary General Paul Pun Chi Meng told The Macau Post Daily  that he and several other members of the diocese were at Fr. Lancelote’s bedside when he passed away. Pun said that Fr. Lancelote died of cardiac insufficiency […]

Several dozen dogs and cats were amongst the roughly 1,000 pet lovers who joined a protest march Sunday to demand that a long-delayed animal welfare and protection law finally be enacted. The march, organised by the Abandoned Animals Protection Association of Macau (AAPAM), started from Praca do Tap Seac and ended at Government House, where […]

University of Macau’s new campus based in Hengqin Island in south China’s Guangdong Province is expected to be put into use in September, a chinese provincial official said Friday. The campus will accommodate about 10,000 students within three years, said Chui Sai On, chief executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) at a joint […]

The central government said in a statement Sunday that Chen Sixi and Qiu Hong were appointed by the State Council in Beijing to be two of the new vice-directors of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Macau, while three vice-directors of the office – Xu Ze, Li Benjun and Gao Yan have […]

Chief Executive Chui Sai On said Thursday that the government had started an administrative inquiry to probe two senior officials of the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) for their alleged involvement in a case of misfeasance. Chui said that he had formally received a notice from the Public Prosecution Office (MP) and the Examining […]

Lawmaker Kwan Tsui Hang, who serves as the president of the Legislative Assembly’s Follow-Up Committee on Land Affairs and Public Concessions, suggested Thursday that an independent body should be established to check all the data related to the city’ public bus service, such as frequencies and bus cash box collections. Kwan was at the headquarters […]

Police officials from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau arrested a total of 19 people on Monday for their alleged involvement in an international ring that produces fake credit cards with stolen personal information from Europe, the Middle East and the US, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said Thursday. The Judiciary Police (PJ) held a special press […]

Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) President Raymond Tam Vai Man Tuesday stayed mum over rumours that his resignation from the five-member Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee was due to a future court appearance as a defendant in a case of alleged perversion of the course of justice involving the granting of burial plots. Tam […]

Several hundred citizens – including schoolchildren, university students, teachers, professors and retirees – joined last night’s vigil held by the Union for Democratic Development Macau (UMDD) commemorating the 24th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen incident. About 500 people joined the vigil, down from around 700 a year ago. Participants lit candles in Largo […]