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The number of criminal cases uncovered by police authorities in Macau rose by 8.9 percent between January and September this year. In a press conference held on Friday, the Secretary for Security, Cheong Kuok Va, also revealed that drug trafficking crimes have increased by 94.7 percent, with 89 more registered cases in comparison to last […]

The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) said in a report Thursday that the city’s three bus operators are operating “illegally,” based on a service provider system set up by the government in 2011 that, according to the report, amounted to a “serious violation” of the public interest. The graft-buster urged the government to void the city’s […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Wednesday that the price of private property was high which, however, could not just be linked to “some basic factors”. Chui also said it was a fact that the local property market is currently ruled by emotions, luxury flatsdominate the market, and buyers prefer to invest in property […]

The Macau Customs Service announced Wedensday in a press conference that officers had seized 1,430 counterfeit Dove body lotions from five pharmacies and a storage lock-up, collaring three men and five women. A Customs Service spokesperson told The Macau Post Daily that the Consumer Council referred complaints from the general public to officers, indicating that […]

Chief Executive Chui Sai On said  Tuesday that the government would study the feasibility of setting a ratio for local employees working in managerial positions in the city’s casinos. Chui also that the government would make a deal with Macau’s six gaming operators to make sure that local casino employees be given more professional training […]

Macau’s population reached 598,200 at the end of the September, an increase of 6,300 from the end of June,  the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Monday. The city’s population has gone up by 36.5 percent since the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) in December 1999, when the population stood at 438,100. […]

About 40 businesspeople from a number of associations representing different sectors of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) urged the government Thursday to simplify the hiring of non-local workers. They also expressed their opposition to the Federation of Labour Unions’ recent call for a specific law to ban non-locals from working in certain sectors. The businesspeople […]

Secretary for Economy and Finance Francis Tam Pak Yuen said Wednesday he hoped that progress be made in the next three years through the setting-up of three new centres to strengthen Macau’s role as a business-service hub between China and Portuguese-speaking countries. The three centres mentioned by Tam are a centre for small-and medium-sized enterprises […]

Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said Tuesday that a new economic and trade action plan signed by the members of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries in Macau would further affirm the importance Macau’s function as service platform by giving the city three new centres. The action plan state that […]