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) […]
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The Secretary for Security warned of the increasing sophistication of high-tech and computer crime and the difficulty of laws to keep pace with it. At the end of 2014, Wong Sio Chak took responsibility for law and order as security chief in the SAR, nearly 16 years after joining the police force. “The criminals want […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture hailed the improvements in staffing at major hospitals in his first year in office and praised the cultural legacy given to the city by the Portuguese. Alexis Tam Chon Weng has a wide brief, with the four main sectors of medicine, education, culture and leisure. The Secretary has […]
The government will come up with measures to attract more mainland and foreign students to study in Macau, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said estimating that the number of new high-school graduates will decrease over the next five years and level out at about 3,500. “We’ll not have enough local […]
Lai Man Wa’s case has been closed. The Judiciary Police says the Prosecutions Office has determined that the former Customs director committed suicide. However, information on the reason behind the suicide will not be made public following a request made by Lai’s family. On October 30th last year, the body of Macau’s first female Customs […]
The Secretary for Economy and Finance evoked the “Macau spirit” to bring people together, overcome the difficulties they face and use the opportunity to improve the city’s economy.s . Lionel Leong Vai Tac said in a recent interview with Exmoo News that, in meetings with friends, social groups and people in industry, he felt the […]
The Examining Magistracy said in a statement on Saturday that it had ordered the six Public Security Police (PSP) officers who were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of having committed a string of serious crimes over the past four years, such as misfeasance in public office, to be remanded in custody. Speaking during Friday’s press […]