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Macau, China, 26 Sept – The Macau Department of Health said Thursday it identified three more products in Macau with melamine, a toxic substance that has already killed four children in China, increasing the total number of products containing the chemical to eight. After discovering that Yili milk, Yili strawberry-flavoured yoghurt, Mengniu nut-flavoured milk and […]

Macau, China, 24 Sept  – The Macau Department of Health has confirmed that a 16-month old child, who drank Nestlé Gold powdered milk, has kidney stones and is receiving clinical treatment in a hospital in Macau. A statement from the Macau Department of Health released Tuesday said that the child was brought to the Conde […]

Macau, China, 22 Sept – Around 10,000 nursery and primary school students in Chinese schools in Macau will undergo medical tests as of today to check for contamination by the melamine in milk products distributed to educational facilities, according to a report in the Tribuna de Macau newspaper. The paper, which cited the Education and […]

Macau, China, 22 Sept – Guinea Bissau’s President, Nino Vieira Saturday invited Macau businesspeople to invest in his country reminding them that it had a multitude of natural resources, including oil. “We don’t only want to receive. We also want to give,” said Vieira who was in Macau following an official visit to Beijing to […]

Macau, China, 17 Sept – The president of Guinea Bissau, João Bernardo “Nino” Vieira, is due Friday to arrive in Macau on a three-day visit at the invitation of the chief executive of the Special Administrative Region of China, Edmund Ho. According to Radio Macau, Vieira’s schedule in the SAR includes a meeting with Ho […]

Macau, China, 15 Aug – Macau Chief Executive Edmund Ho called Thursday for local companies to refrain from firing staff and hiking prices, despite rising inflation and the fragile international business climate. Speaking in the annual questions and answers session in Macau’s Legislative Assembly, Ho said inflation would persist for some time, announcing the government […]

Guangzhou, China, 6 Aug – Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong have agreed to jointly fund the building of a bridge to link the three regions with mainland China bearing the brunt of the project, estimated at 3.7 billion euros. Following a meeting in Guangzhou, Donald Tsang, chief executive of Hong Kong, said the bridge will […]

  Macau, China, 16 Jul – The Public Security Police (PSP) announced yesterday a string of measures to restrict the stay of transit travellers from mainland China in Macau. According with the announcemnt, the new measures are meant to render ” more efficient” he control of mainland passport holders transiting through Macau to a third […]

Macau, China, 12 March – The Macau government announced on Tuesday that it is making available 814 million patacas (US$ 101 million) for a string of financial support measures to alleviate the impact of inflation among the territory’s most needy citizens. Inflation in Macau hit 8.3 percent in January, the highest level recorded since 1999. […]