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Audit report slams Macau government overspending on public surveys

Audit report slams Macau government overspending on public surveys

Several public services have been criticised by the Commission of Audit for overspending when commissioning public surveys and consultancy services. In a report issued today, the Commission notes several instances which lack transparency and disregard legal guidelines in the award of services. According to the report, between 2010 and June 2013, 62 public services requested […]
Macau needs to amend and abolish 1,200 laws, regulations from Portuguese era

Macau needs to amend and abolish 1,200 laws, regulations from Portuguese era

The Secretary for Administration and Justice said that Macau needs to abolish half of the 1,200 laws and regulations inherited from the Portuguese era that are no longer suitable to the international city the SAR has become. In a recent interview with Exmoo News, Sonia Chan Hoi Fan said that the co-ordination and revision of […]
Beijing backs Macau as yuan hub

Beijing backs Macau as yuan hub

The central government will keep supporting Macau to become a yuan clearing platform between China and the Portuguese-speaking bloc, Yao Jian, deputy director of the Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau, said on Wednesday. Yao made the remarks when addressing a seminar jointly hosted by the Bank of China Macau Branch (BOC Macau) and […]
Police ‘cleaning house’ is necessary says Macau Secretary for Security

Police ‘cleaning house’ is necessary says Macau Secretary for Security

Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said internal “house cleaning” over the past year was difficult but necessary, as rogue officers give the police a bad name. Wong made the remarks during a speech at a media dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel in Cotai. A number of police corruption cases erupted over the last […]
Macau Lawmakers pass bill on longer jail time for drug crimes

Macau Lawmakers pass bill on longer jail time for drug crimes

Lawmakers approved on Wednesday the outline of a government-drafted bill to increase the minimum prison terms for the selling of drugs from the current three years to five years, as well as the minimum and maximum sentences for drug-taking. Government officials including Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan and Judiciary Police (PJ) […]
Agreement to advance chinese medicine industry from Macau inked

Agreement to advance chinese medicine industry from Macau inked

The Secretary for Economy and Finance, Lionel Leong, was in Beijing last week to witness the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and the Guangdong-Macau Traditional Chinese Medicine Technology Industrial Park Development. The secretary said that Macau intends to use the ties forged with Lusophone […]
Low risk of terrorist attack in Macau

Low risk of terrorist attack in Macau

Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Chau Wai Kuong said on Tuesday that the risk of a terrorist attack locally is “relatively low”. Chau made the remarks on the sidelines of a meeting with the Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations (“Kai Fong”) and the Macau Property Management Association at the PJ headquarters. According to the 2016 […]
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