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　　中国澳门1月12日电－澳门特区政府新闻局周二在一份公报中称，澳门特区政府将于本月（比去年提前6个月）开始向54.95万名居民支付2011年现金分享款项。 　　据该公报，行政会完成讨论《2011年度现金分享计划》行政法规草案，并建议政府本月开始派钱，以舒缓居民的生活压力。 　　据该公报，“现金分享计划”总开支为23.4亿澳门元（2.92亿美元）。 这笔开支占2011年总预算（796.1亿澳门元）的2.9%。 　　前澳门特区行政长官何厚铧2008年启动了“现金分享计划”。 　　据《澳门邮报》称，今年的“现金分享计划”对永久性居民仅有4000澳门元，非永久性居民为2400澳门元，比去年下降了三分之一。 　　这是澳门特区政府连续第四年实行“现金分享计划”。 2009年和2010年，永久性居民和非获发放的现金额分别为6000澳门元和3600澳门元。 2008年分别为5000澳门元和3000澳门元。 　　澳门特区行政长官崔世安在去年11月宣布2011年施政报告时公布了今年的现金分享数额。 　　(MacauNews) 　　

Macau, China, 12 Jan – The Macau government will start paying its 2011 cash handout to around 549,500 residents this month, six months earlier than last year, the Government Information Bureau (GCS) said in a statement Tuesday. According to the statement, the Executive Council – the government’s top advisory body – has finshed discussing the […]

Macau, China, 10 Jan – Macau’s Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On will make an official visit to Singapore from January 10-13 at the invitation of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Singapore’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said during the visit, Chui will meet with PM Lee, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, […]

Macau, China, 21 Dec – About 1000 protesters marched through Macau Monday, marking the 11th anniversary of its handover to China by calling for affordable housing and universal suffrage. Several hundred activists took aim at skyrocketing rents by wearing panda masks to protest against the "millions" spent on living quarters for two of the animals […]

Macau, China, 13 Dec – The head of the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) revealed Sunday that a bill requiring government officials to declare assets would be open for public comment this month before going to the legislature, but declined to confirm whether the bill would actually ensure the information was released to the general public. […]

Macau, China, 9 Dec – Macau’s police have netted a massive drug haul of slightly over two kilos of cocaine in a 21-year-old woman’s luggage, which they say would fetch some HK$ 2 million (US$ 250 thousand) on the streets. The suspected trafficker, a young woman from the relatively impoverished southern autonomous region of Guangxi […]

Macau, China, 18 Nov – Macau’s Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On Wednesday told lawmakers he intended tostrengthen the leverage of recommendations sent by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) to government bureaus and other public entities about their alleged maladministration. Chui also said that the government was drafting a bill on amending the CCAC’s organisational […]

Macau, China, 17 Nov – Macau’s government’s 2011 budget bill presented Tuesday in the Legislative Assembly provides for receipts of 79.6 billion patacas and expenditures of 57.5 billion patacas, resulting in an expected surplus of 22.1 billion patacas. Next year’s budget is up 50.7 percent from this year’s budget of 52.8 billion patacas. During the […]

Macau, China, 15 Nov – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao left Macau for Zhuhai Sunday evening, ending his first official visit to the Macau Special Administrative Region. During his two-day tour, Wen attended the opening ceremony of the third Ministerial Conference of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries. "Since returning […]