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The Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) Monday began training civil servants that will be working at polling stations on Election Day about the rules and regulations of the direct and indirect legislative elections on September 15, such as verifying eligible voters and ballots. The training session was held at the Tap Seac Multi-Sports Pavilion, […]

Non-local workers accounted for 20.5 percent of Macau’s population at the end of June, according to data released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) on Friday. Non-local workers totalled 121,194 at the end of the second quarter, an increase of 6,478 quarter-to-quarter. Macau’s population rose to 591,900 at the end of the second quarter, […]

Overall reported crime in the first half of this year recorded a 7.4 percent year-on-year increase, with drug-trafficking crimes rising 63.6 percent. Secretary for Security Cheong Kuoc Va presented crime statistics for the first half of the year in a press conference Thursday in the Sao Francisco Barracks. Security Forces Co-ordination Office Director Cheang Seng […]

Secretary for Economy and Finance Francis Tam Pak Yuen said Wednesday the government would complete drafting amendments to the Budget Law next year and in future all information on spending on large-scale public construction projects will be submitted to the legislature for analysis and discussion. Tam made the pledge during yesterday’s Q&A session in the […]

The Macau government’s Food Safety Co-ordination Group urged residents in a statement Monday not to consume certain batches of Cow & Gate baby formula products that are being recalled by the UK dairy products company because they may contain a potentially deadly bacteria that can cause botulism. The company said that it was recalling batches […]

Starting out as a group on Facebook about a year ago to give peer support to mothers and promote breastfeeding, the Macau Breastfeeding Association was officially set up Sunday with the aim to have a law enacted to protect mothers wishing to breastfeed in public places. Any law would have to be passed by the […]

Macau’s number of licensed motor vehicles rose five percent year-on-year to 220,591 at the end of June, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Wednesday. Scooters and other types of motorcycles accounted for 53 percent of the total number of motor vehicles. The number of new registrations of motor vehicles increased eight percent to 8,994 […]

A local concern group for the rights of the disabled – Macau Special Olympics – Monday slammed the government for its perceived failure to assist the city’s disabled in integrating into society as many disabled residents were still unable to use most public facilities. Siu Yu Hong, a social worker who heads the group, made […]

Judiciary Police (PJ) officers have caught another drug swallower from Tanzania on suspicion of trying to smuggle cocaine via Macau into the mainland, this time swallowing 1.091 kg of the drug with an estimated street price of roughly HK$900,000. In a press conference held at the PJ headquarters on Saturday, a PJ spokesperson said that […]