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Macau, China, 28 Feb – Macau’s total population – comprising residents and imported workers – was estimated at 557,400 at the end of 2011, an increase of 16,800 or 3.1 percent compared with the revised figure of 540,600 at the end of 2010, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Monday. The adult population aged […]

Beijing, China, 28 Feb –  The National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, China’s top legislature, deliberated Monday a report concerning methods for the selection of Macau’s chief executive and formation of the region’s legislative council. The report on whether it is necessary to amend the methods for forming the Legislative Assembly of the Macau Special […]

Macau, China, 27 Feb – A total of 18 companies have had their bids accepted for the construction for four stations in the Cotai section of the first phase of the government’s Light Rail Transit (LRT) project – with the lowest bid amounting to 789 million patacas and the highest standing at 1.3 billions patacas, […]

Macau, China, 24 Feb – Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Thursday that his government would study allowing local social service providers to hire non-local professionals for the care of the elderly to fill manpower shortages. He made the vow during a meeting with the members of the government-appointed Senior Citizens Affairs Committee and […]

Macau, China, 22 Feb – Macau’s long-delayed light trail project got finally off the ground Tuesday and Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si I asked for residents’ understanding for any traffic snarl-ups and inconvenience caused. Construction for the Taipa-section of the Light Rapid Transit (LRT) system started, after 10 years of preparatory work,The […]

Macau, China, 15  Fev – Secretary for Security Cheong Kuoc Va announced Tuesday a 7.4 percent increase in the number of reported crimes last year, including an 18.5 percent growth in violent crime such as extortion, robbery, murder, rape and sexual abuse of children. A total of four murders were reported in 2011, two more […]

Macau, China, 10 Feb – A total of 43 civil servants were prosecuted last year, with wounding cases the most at 14, followed by 12 cases concerning traffic accidents and injury liability, Assistant Public Prosecutor General Vong Vai Va told The Macau Post Daily Thursday. Vong  also revealed that the Public Prosecution Service (MP) handled […]

Macau, China, 2 Fev – Macau’s only member of the Standing Committee of National People Congress (NPCSC), Legislative Assembly Vice President Ho Iat Seng said Wednesday  that it was “inappropriate” to have a discussion about universal suffrage in the election of the chief executive and legislators right now as the Macau Basic Law does not […]

Macau, China, 31 Jan – The Macau government so far has received over 1,000 opinions from the general public – out of a population of around 560,000 – about the city’s political development, Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) Director Jose Chu said Monday. According to The Macau Post Daily, Chu made the announcement […]