The University of Macau (UM) on Saturday held its first flag-raising ceremony to celebrate its congregation day, becoming the first public university in Macau to have held a flag-raising ceremony on campus.
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The Transport Bureau (DSAT) said Thursday it expects there will be more than 200 bus trips per day between the border checkpoints of the three jurisdictions for the Hong-Kong-Zhuhai-Macau (HKZM) Bridge – colloquially known as delta bridge – when it comes into operation.
Polytec Asset Holdings Limited said Thursday it was of the view that its Macau-registered affiliate Polytex Import and Export Company Ltd. “has strong legal grounds and arguments to seek compensation” from the Macau government “for losses and damages” concerning its mothballed Pearl Horizon property project.
The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) has failed to properly carry out processing tasks for its purchased books – such as their registration in its library catalogue system, sorting and cataloguing – so that a large number of books are still not on the bookshelves in its libraries for residents to use despite being purchased many years ago, the Commission of Audit (CA) said in a hard-hitting report Wednesday.
According to a news report by government-owned broadcaster TDM, Macau Foundation (FM) President Wu Zhiliang announced yesterday that the public foundation will donate 40 million yuan (50.6 million patacas) to Congjiang county in Guizhou province for poverty alleviation measures.
Hong Kong-listed Amax International Holdings said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange yesterday that reported claims by junket operator Suncity that it was now controlling the mothballed Beijing Imperial Palace Hotel in Taipa are “untrue”.
The deputy director of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Tan Tianxing, Monday stressed the importance of Macau’s integration into the nation’s development, according to a statement released by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS).
The director of the Government Information Bureau (GCS), Victor Chan, reiterated on the sidelines of Monday’s Macao Global Media Industry Development Conference 2018 that the government respects the freedom of the press.
Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan said last week that the government aims to submit a bill amending the Judicial Organisation Framework Law to the legislature next month, which proposes that all principal officials charged with a criminal offence will be tried by the Court of Second Instance (TSI).