News

Vice Premier Wang Yang said Monday that the central government has approved a new Macau-Guangdong border checkpoint, which will include a 450-metre-long covered bridge over the Duck Channel which runs along the Macau-Zhuhai border, Xinhua reported. According to Xinhua, Wang made the remark during a meeting with Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On. Wang arrived […]

The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) on November 4 signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tourism Ministry of Timor-Leste, to promote ties between the two sides. It was one of several agreements signed during the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries held in Macau this week. The MOU has […]

Secretary for Administration and Justice Florinda Chan Lai Man and Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung said Thursday  that the two special administrative regions will further improve judiciary co-operation and work on a prisoner exchange agreement. After attending Thursday’s opening ceremony of the 57th congress of the International Union of Lawyers (UIA) at […]

Chief Executive (CE) Fernando Chui Sai On pledged Wednesday that his government would continue to look for solutions to revitalise the city’s old neighbourhoods and pledged that the government would improve social services for the mentally disabled. Chui went on a walkabout in the Patane and Rotunda de Carlos da Maia (popularly known as Three […]

The number of registered drug abusers in Macau  increased by 23.5 percent year-on-year in the first half of this year, Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) Director Iong Kong Io said Wednesday. The statistics from the bureau shows that there were 584 registered drug abusers in 2012, a decrease from 633 in the previous year. The number […]

Lawmakers Tuesday elected the presidents and secretaries of the Legislative Assembly’s seven committees – the Committee on Rules and Statutes, 1st Standing, 2nd Standing and 3rd Standing Committees, Follow-up Committee for Land and Public Concession Affairs, Follow-up Committee for Public Finance Affairs, and Follow-up Committee for Public Administration Affairs. According to The Macau Post Daily, […]

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) education should be included in the local school curriculum to improve TCM education and research levels in tertiary education which could result in more local TCM professionals in the future, State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SATCM) Director Wang Guoqiang said Tuesday. Wang made the suggestion after attending the opening ceremony […]

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On has appointed local businessman Peter Lam Kam Seng, an executive member of the public Macau Foundation (FM) and chairman of the Macau Science Centre, to the Executive Council (ExCo), the government’s top advisory body, according to a statement published in the Official Gazette (BO) Monday. According to the statement, […]

The corruption trial of Hong Kong businessmen Steven Lo Kit-sing and Joseph Lau Luen-hung resumed Monday, with Lo’s lawyers asserting that Macau’s anti-graft agency did not have evidence to prove a direct connection between Lo and Macau’s disgraced public works chief Ao Man-long. Lo, chairman of BMA Investment, and Lau, chairman of Chinese Estates, are […]