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Macau, China, 21 Jun – The Macau government will reclaim 3.5 sq km of land in the next five years to provide new areas for the territory expansion, said Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si Io last week. "Over half of the 350 hectares (3.5 sq km) of land to be reclaimed will […]

Macau, China, 14 Jun – Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On will be working out how the government can financially support the Portuguese School of Macau (EPM) during his official visit to Portugal where he will be meeting with the country’s president, Anibal Antonio Cavaco Silva, the head of the CE office Alexis Tam Chon […]

Macau, China, 3 Jun – The government of Macau Wednesday said it will revise the SAR’s press and broadcasting laws in two to three years. These two laws have been in place for 20 years, but the relevant press and radio and TV broadcasting committees still have not been established, and the status of local […]

Macau, China, 1 Jun  – The governments of Macau  and Guangdong Province on Monday signed here three pacts concerning cooperation in tourism and medicine. Guangdong Governor Huang Huahua led an official delegation to attend the Guangdong-Macau Joint Co-operation Conference, where he met with the Macau’s Chief Executive, Fernando Chui Sai On. After the meeting, the […]

Macau, China, 25 May – Macau’s participation in the Shanghai World Exposition is an "opportunity" for the international promotion of the territory that will be made use of, the Macau chief executive, Fernando Chui Sai On. On his way to Shanghai, heading a delegation from Macau, Fernando Chui Sai On noted the importance of the […]

Macau,China, 18 May  – Chief Executive of Macau Fernando Chui Sai On visit today Foshan city, the last leg of its tour to cities in the Pearl River Delta, according to a official announcement. Chui Sai On visited Monday  the cities of Jiangmen and Zhaoqing to strenght relations and exchange views with the Peal River […]

Macau, China, 14 May – The University of Macau (UM) will launch a postgraduation program in International Relations and Public Policy in this coming academic year and is already enrolling students from Macau, mainland China and abroad, professor Jianwei Wang announced Thursday. "We have created this program in the last two years [….]. Now we […]

Macau, China, 6 May – Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si Io said Wednesday that he had "full confidence" in the government’s ability to keep its promise of completing 19,000 public housing flats by 2012. Lau made the remark in a meeing at the legislative hemicycle answering lawmakers’ interpellations. To meet local’s rising […]

Macau, China, 11 May – Around 330,000 doses of swine flu vaccine (A/H1N1), which cost the government some 44.6 million patacas (US$ 5.58) to purchase last year, are still unused and will expire in September, Lei Chin Ion, director of the Health Bureau (SSM), said Monday during a press conference. To cope with the outbreak […]