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Macau top court rejects Moon Ocean’s La Scala appeal

Macau top court rejects Moon Ocean’s La Scala appeal

The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) has rejected Moon Ocean Ltd’s request to annul a 2012 administrative order by Chief Executive Chui Sai On which invalidated the company’s provisional leaseholds of five plots of land where the aborted La Scala residential project is located, according to a statement issued by the court on Wednesday. Chui’s […]
Macau government co-operates with Guangdong on ‘One Belt, One Road’

Macau government co-operates with Guangdong on ‘One Belt, One Road’

The Macau and Guangdong governments signed a deal to join forces in the development of the central government’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative on Tuesday. The two sides inked the letter of intent during the one-day 2016 Macau-Guangdong Joint Co-operation Conference. Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On and Guangdong Governor Zhu Xiaodan co-hosted a press […]
Macau Chief Executive reassures public of Taishan nuclear plant safety

Macau Chief Executive reassures public of Taishan nuclear plant safety

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On said Tuesday that the central government was “deeply concerned about the safety of Macau’s residents,” amid concerns about safety at the still under-construction Taishan Nuclear Power Plant. Chui also vowed that his government will always be in close contact with the Guangdong provincial government about the plant’s construction progress […]
Macau provident fund bill passed by the legislature

Macau provident fund bill passed by the legislature

The government’s bill for the city’s long-delayed non-mandatory central provident fund was finally passed by the legislature on Tuesday, eight years after it had first been presented by the government. During a plenary debate about the bill’s outline, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said he was “confident” that the government […]
Macau government vows to study innovation in public administration

Macau government vows to study innovation in public administration

Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said on Sunday it was important for the various public entities in the city to always be innovative so that the government will be able to better meet residents’ needs. The policy secretary also said it was important to encourage public entities not to be afraid […]
Macau should have 3 municipal bodies says scholar

Macau should have 3 municipal bodies says scholar

There should be two municipal bodies for the Macau peninsula and one for Taipa and Coloane, Zhu Shihai, an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the private Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), said on Thursday. Zhu, who holds a PhD in law from Renmin University of China in Beijing, made the remarks […]
Group urges Macau government to monitor local online food shops

Group urges Macau government to monitor local online food shops

A food safety group urged on Thursday the government to more closely monitor the operation of local online shops selling food items, amid the increasing popularity to order food online. Philip Choi Shoi Meng, who heads the Macau Food Safety Management Association, made the suggestion on the sidelines of a food safety seminar, which was organised by the […]
Macau lawmaker urges government to explain MTR’s role in LRT project

Macau lawmaker urges government to explain MTR’s role in LRT project

Lawmaker-cum-businessman Si Ka Lon urged the government in an interpellation on Wednesday to explain why it has given Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation Ltd. a 470 million pataca service contract for the light-rail transit (LRT) project. The government said in a notice published late last month in the Official Gazette (BO) that as the contract for the LRT […]
Macau lawmakers raise concerns over private notaries

Macau lawmakers raise concerns over private notaries

Lawmakers raised concerns over the supervision of the city’s private notaries if more lawyers will be able to acquire a private notary licence after a government-initiated bill regulating the profession becomes law, the legislature’s 1st Standing Committee President Kwan Tsui Hang said on Tuesday. The legislature last month passed the outline of the bill, the main […]
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