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Legislative Assembly First Standing Committee President Kwan Tsui Hang said yesterday that most of the lawmakers in her committee agreed with the government’s stance that it would not legally fix property agents’ commission rates in its bill regulating the city’s real-estate agencies and agents. Kwan made the remarks to the media after her committee had […]

An offshore renminbi centre should be set up in Hengqin to attract investment in the newly opened-up development region through a multi-currency clearing and settlement platform for China and Portuguese-speaking countries as well as cross-border trade, Macau Electronic Financial Industry Trade Promotion Association (APCIFE) Deputy President Cheong Fong Ioi said yesterday. According to The Macau […]

The nation’s three taikonauts who accomplished their mission to dock the Shenzhou-9 (or 9th ‘Divine Vessel’) spacecraft with the Tiangong 1 (‘Heavenly Palace’) told about 2,200 schoolchildren yesterday to study hard and stay healthy to make their dreams come true, The Macau Post Daily reports today. Jing Haipeng, the mission commander, along with taikonauts Liu […]

A 42-member delegation of the Tiangong-1/Shenzhou-9 manned space docking and rendezvous mission gifted yesterday a docking model of Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-9 to Macau after arriving in the city yesterday at the start of a three-day visit. After a short closed-door meeting with Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On at Government House, Niu Hongguang who heads […]

Secretary for Security Cheong Kuoc Va revealed yesterday that there were 191 reported cases of document forgery in the first six months of the year, a 55.3 percent increase compared to the same period last year. Of the 191 cases, 51 of them involved sham marriages – slightly over a quarter of the total number […]

Lawmakers yesterday expressed their wish thatrepresentatives from the government, courts, public prosecution and lawyersassociation could get together to discuss the government-drafted amendment billon the Code of Criminal Procedure that is widely seen as cumbersome andoutdated. Indirectly-elected lawmaker-cum-banker Cheang ChiKeong, who heads the legislature’s Third Standing Committee, expressed thelawmaker’s wish to reporters after a meeting with […]

The Legislative Assembly’s 2nd Standing CommitteePresident Chan Chak Mo told reporters yesterday that the committee’s ninemembers were in the process of drafting their formal report regarding the twogovernment-initiated bills on amending the legislature’s composition and themethod of electing the chief executive in 2014 – known collectively as“+2+2+100”. Chan made the statement in the legislative chambers […]

Two male defendants, one from Hong Kong and the other from Macau, were Tuesday sentenced to eight and half years behind bars each for their involvement in the city’s first “ice factory”. The trial which started last month involved 4 male defendants. Two of the Macau defendants were acquitted for lack of evidence. According to […]

The Audit Commission says in a report that the government’s now defunct office that prepared Macau’s participation in the 2010 Shanghai World Expo has failed to provide a full explanation about the 34.4 million pataca difference between the actual amount of money it paid for moveable assets and the respective amount listed in the government’s […]