Official figures released by principal investigator Ho Tai Meng of the Judiciary Police (PJ) on Sunday showed that the number of teenagers arrested for drug-related crimes in has increased year-on-year. Addressing an anti-drug seminar, Ho said the police will regularly inspect places where teenagers tend to congregate such as amusement arcades and cyber cafes. Several […]
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There should be two municipal bodies for the Macau peninsula and one for Taipa and Coloane, Zhu Shihai, an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the private Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), said on Thursday. Zhu, who holds a PhD in law from Renmin University of China in Beijing, made the remarks […]
A food safety group urged on Thursday the government to more closely monitor the operation of local online shops selling food items, amid the increasing popularity to order food online. Philip Choi Shoi Meng, who heads the Macau Food Safety Management Association, made the suggestion on the sidelines of a food safety seminar, which was organised by the […]
Lawmaker-cum-businessman Si Ka Lon urged the government in an interpellation on Wednesday to explain why it has given Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation Ltd. a 470 million pataca service contract for the light-rail transit (LRT) project. The government said in a notice published late last month in the Official Gazette (BO) that as the contract for the LRT […]
The three-month restoration of the partially collapsed roof of an outbuilding of St Augustine’s Church will cost about one million patacas, Leong Wai Man, who heads the Cultural Heritage Department of the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), said on Tuesday. Several senior IC officials, including Leong, spoke to reporters during the bureau’s “Cultural Gathering” with the […]
Lawmakers raised concerns over the supervision of the city’s private notaries if more lawyers will be able to acquire a private notary licence after a government-initiated bill regulating the profession becomes law, the legislature’s 1st Standing Committee President Kwan Tsui Hang said on Tuesday. The legislature last month passed the outline of the bill, the main […]
Having 100,000 workers adhering to the non-Mandatory Central Provident Fund scheme is for now the government’s benchmark. “Our aim is to implement this scheme as soon as possible as to guarantee the rights of retired workers. Given that this is a non-mandatory scheme, it’s hard to make a forecast in terms of the number of […]
The government should increase its annual cash handout to 12,000 patacas for permanent residents and 6,000 patacas for non-permanent residents next year, legislator Jose Pereira Coutinho, who heads the Macau Civil Servants Association (ATFPM), said on Monday after a meeting with Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On at Government Headquarters. According to the Official Gazette […]
A total of 191 MICE events were held in the first quarter of 2016, down by 20 per cent year-on-year. Information released on Monday by the Statistics and Census Service indicates that the total number of participants and attendees decreased by 50.4 per cent to 124,960. There were 187 meetings and conferences held in the […]