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The private City University of Macau urged the government Sunday to grant it a plot of land for a campus as soon as possible after its application for a lot in Coloane was turned down by the government by reason of the protection of cultural heritage. Chan Meng Kam, who chairs the council of the […]

The government is stepping up its dengue fever prevention measures to Level 3, which indicates a local outbreak, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced Wednesday. The statement cited by The Macau Post Daily said that the government’s working group to prevent dengue fever held a meeting Wednesday after confirming that nine locals have been infected with […]

Directly-elected lawmaker-cum-businesswoman Melinda Chan Mei Yi, who leads a youth service association, said Wednesday that she would run in next year’s Legislative Assembly election. Chan is the first of the legislature’s 12 directly-elected and 10 indirectly-elected members to announce her re-election bid for the 2013 ballot. Seven of the legislature’s members are appointed by the […]

Macau-based Deputy Foreign Affairs Ministry Commissioner Zhang Jinfeng Tuesday praised Macau compatriots for using all sorts of ways to show their determination to protect the nation’s sovereign territory including the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. “It is normal that Japan is being strongly condemned and greatly opposed by the Chinese government and the […]

A court hearing with eight defendants including Hong Kong real-estate tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-hung and his business partner Steven Lo Kit-seng accused of bribing former Macau secretary for transport and public works Ao Man Long in a land deal involving the luxury La Scala residential development did not go ahead Monday as scheduled because the […]

Hong Kong-listed Chinese Estate Holdings says that it’s fully owned subsidiary Moon Ocean and an unnamed purchaser of a La Scala unit lodged an appeal to Macau’s Court of Second Instance (TSI) last week against the government’s recent decision to scrap the company’s land concession near the airport in Taipa. Chinese Estate Holdings announced the […]

The corruption trial of Hong Kong tycoons Joseph Lau Luen-hung and Steven Lo Kit-sing, which is due to start on Monday in Macau, may be adjourned over pre-trial hitches and an “impossible” court schedule, accordant to todays South China Morning Post. The two businessmen were charged for allegedly offering a HK$20 million bribe to Macau’s […]

The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced Wednesday the arrest of two local businessmen believed to be members of a loan-fraud gang suspected of ripping off up to 10 banks in Hong Kong between 2006 and early this year, involving at least HK$70 million. According to The Macau Post Daily, a PJ spokesperson  said that the duo […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On told reporters Sunday that he has already ordered Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si Io to come up with a new budget for the construction of the first phase of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system “as soon as possible”, in time for the presentation of the […]