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Newly-appointed Taipei Economic and Cultural Office chief Lu Chang-shui said Monday he was determined to further deepen exchanges and co-operation between Taiwan and Macau. He made the remark when delivering a speech at a Chinese New Year banquet organised by the office in Macau . Over a hundred locals including civic leaders and students who […]

The Public Security Police (PSP) said on Saturday that it had deported 107 mainlanders since March 1 from the city as they were found to be buying patacas commemorative banknotes from locals, an activity that violated the terms and conditions of their stay as tourists, The Macau Post Daily reports today, citing local Chinese-language media […]

Macau’s human rights record will face the scrutiny of the United Nations Human Rights Committee next week in meetings that will be webcast live on the Internet, according to a statement by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights cited by The Macau Post Daily today. The meetings will be held on […]

Paul Tse, the head of Keck Seng Group, one of Macau’s biggest real-estate developers, said the sector’s best is yet to come in anticipation of the next phase of growth driven by human capital expansion. In an interview with the Macau Inc. Magazine, the top executive of the group that built Ocean Gardens, said what […]

The Macau Monetary Authority (AMCM) said in a statement Thursday that it was “highly” concerned about a local company claiming that it would pay “the highest prices” to purchase the city’s commemorative Chinese zodiac 10-pataca banknotes, vowing that it would ensure the “normal” circulation and supply of the city’s pataca currency. The quasi-central bank also […]

Macau needs to educate talented people and diversify its development in the current good times, to better prepare for possible difficulties in the future said Chinese deputy Prime Minister Zhang Dejiang in a meeting with Macau’s deputies to the National People’s Congress in Beijing. Zhang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau […]

Lawmakers urged the government Wednesday to stipulate in its amendment bill on land use that all information on any plot of land exempted from public tender must include the reasons for the exemption and the size of the respective plot, according to directly-elected lawmaker Kwan Tsui Hang who heads the legislature’s First Standing Committee. Kwan, […]

Representatives of a recently-established trade union for the gaming industry’s “frontline workers” urged the Health Bureau (SSM) Wednesday to ensure that it has inspectors on duty in the city’s casinos 24 hours a day to enforce a strict smoking ban in the non-smoking areas of the casinos. The union also urged the government to review […]

Public Security Police (PSP) Commissioner Lei Siu Peng said Tuesdaythat despite a relatively high number of job vacancies in the police force that needed to be filled, there were still enough officers to serve the public and maintain law and order. Lei said that the PSP currently employed about 4,500 officers, of which roughly 1,000 […]