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Macau, China, 10 Oct – The Macau Department of Health said that it has identified three more students with kidney stones after testing around 12,000 that drank milk products that were possibly contaminated. A statement issued Wednesday by the Macau Department of Health, also known as the Health Bureau, said “three female students were definitively […]

Macau, China, 9 Oct – The Macau government Wednesday granted two local companies a contract to study the underground infrastructures in the first stage of the Macau’s light railway, also called Light Rapid Transit (LRT) system, the construction of which is expected to start in 2009. The 4-million pataca (US$ 500,000) contract was granted to […]

Macau, China, 07 Oct – Macau’s school authorities said that no cases of kidney infection were found in over 11,000 children from day care centres and primary schools in Macau that were tested after drinking milk products that have since been removed from the market. Up until 6 October, urine tests were performed on 11,465 […]

Macau, China, 29 Sept – Around 500 civil servants took part in a protest Sunday against the Macau government, organised by the Macau Civil Servants Union, known as ATFPM (Associacao dos Trabalhadores da Funcao Publica). The protestors were demanding salary rises, regulations on contracts and re-hiring two teachers, whose contracts were not renewed. Macau has […]

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 […]