The government will continue to run a budget deficit, although formally the budget is a balanced one thanks to a cash injection accounting for nearly 28% of next year’s expected government revenue.
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The government on Wednesday opened a base with the aim of strengthening young people’s patriotic education, Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng said in a speech.
A traffic accident occurred in which a non-resident worker was hit by a bus at the junction of Avenida da Praia Grande and Avenida do Infante D. Henrique in the city centre.
Three men and a woman were arrested this week for using fake casino cash chips to defraud three men out of HK$4.9 million (MOP 5.05 million).
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng urged officials on Tuesday to continue doing a “good job” in the next stage of the government’s COVID-19 prevention and control work while he was summarising Macao’s “phased” achievements in its COVID-19 prevention and control work.
The government plans to keep the whole structure of the long-vacant Old Courthouse in the city centre intact.
The government-appointed Taipa and Coloane Community Service Consultative Council formed a “falling windows concern group” last year to gradually tackle the long-running issue in Taipa.
The government’s Interdepartmental Road Projects Coordination Group has received 363 applications for roadwork permits from government entities and public utilities to be carried out in the upcoming year, which is a 21 per cent increase year-on-year.
The government has purchased 1.2 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines developed by three vaccine developers — China National Pharmaceutical Group (also known as Sinopharm), Germany’s BioNTech and the Anglo-Swedish joint venture of AstraZeneca and Oxford University