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Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) went on a joint sales mission to Malaysia and Singapore together with five tourism entities including Tourism Administration of Guangdong Province, Tourism Administration of Guangzhou Municipality, Zhongshan Municipal Tourism Bureau, Zhuhai Culture Sports and Tourism Bureau as well as Tourism Administration of Shaoguan Municipality. The six offices jointly promoted international […]

Lawmakers on Thursday passed the government bill declaring September 3 this year as a mandatory holiday to celebrate the nation’s anti-fascist victory over Japan. Lawmakers unanimously passed the bill in an urgent procedure without legislators’ usual committee-level discussion as is customary for government-drafted bills. Government representatives including Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi […]

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said on Wednesday he hoped the government will decide by year’s end whether the city’s fourth Macau-Taipa link will be a bridge or a tunnel. The policy secretary made the remark after attending a meeting of the legislature’s Follow-up Committee for Public Administration Affairs about the […]

Details of the first phase of government restructuring will be announced later this year, Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) Acting Director Kou Peng Kuan said on Tuesday in a reply to an interpellation submitted by lawmaker Si Ka Lon. Si submitted a written interpellation in April, asking for more information about the promised […]

The Housing Bureau (IH) announced on Monday its proposed amendments to the Social Housing Law by defining ‘rich’ households, which would have to return their flats after four years. IH Director Ieong Kam Wa, Vice Director Kuoc Vai Han and Chan Wa Keong, who heads the bureau’s public housing department, jointly hosted a press conference […]

To assist in the implementation of the government’s annual “wealth-sharing” cash handout scheme, a support centre at China Plaza in Avenida da Praia Grande will start operating today, the Finance Services Bureau (DSF) said in a statement on Sunday. The payout started last week. The handout is the same as last year’s – 9,000 patacas […]

Newly appointed Finance Services Bureau (DSF) Director Stephen Iong Kong Leong said on Thursday that the government would start consulting the public on Tuesday about the government’s budget framework bill. Speaking to reporters after his swearing-in ceremony, Iong said the consultation period would last for 45 days, adding that a public presentation about the bill […]