Politics

Legislator-cum-urban planner Jose Chui Sai Peng suggested on Sunday the government could perhaps come up with some alternative plans for the hotly debated Zone B. Chui made the suggestions during an urban planning colloquium at Macau Science Centre, where local and Hong Kong’s urban planners and developers discussed the government’s New Reclaimed Lands Master Plan […]

Typhoon Soudelor not only brought Taiwan and Fujian province torrential and destructive rain over the weekend, on Sunday it also broke Macau’s record for the highest temperature of the year. According to the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau, the highest temperature recorded by the meteorological station on the Taipa Grande over the past two days was […]

Policy Research Centre (GEP) Director Lau Pun Lap said on Wednesday that his centre’s estimate for Macau’s population in 2025 to be 750,000 was not the government’s target, adding that Macau’s population development was closely linked to the city’s economy. Lau was a guest on a phone-in programme of TDM’s Chinese-language radio station Ou Mun […]

The local delegation participating in this year’s Special Olympics in Los Angeles has claimed a total of 87 medals, including 35 gold, 24 silver and 28 bronze medals. Macau’s athletes excelled in bocce, tennis, bowling, badminton, racing, aquatics, and running, among other sports. A delegation won 40 medals four years ago at the Special Olympics […]

The Macau International Airport (MIA) has recorded an increase in both passenger traffic volume and aircraft movement for the month of July, according to a press release issued on Tuesday. New routes are in preparation, but the only one specified in the statement was the resumption of Jetstar Pacific’s route between Macau and Ho Chi […]

According to a survey conducted by the Macau Youth Federation, less than a tenth of local youths wish to move to Hengqin. Alexander Lei Chi U, a vice-director of the federation’s Macau Youth Politics Training Programme Committee, announced the group’s findings Sunday at a press conference. The Hengqin Entrepreneurship Valley for Macau Youth opened on […]

Macau’s population is expected to reach 710,000 by 2020 and 750,000 by 2025, while the population density will increase from 20,500 inhabitants per km2 in 2014 to 21,500 people per km2 in 2020, and then to 22,700 people per km2 by 2025, the government’s Policy Research Office (GEP) forecasts in its latest report, which was […]

The office of Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said in a statement on Wednesday that it “firmly” rejected claims by the US Department that women and children are subjected to sex trafficking and forced labour in Macau. The US 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report, which was released in Washington on Monday, reached Macau on […]

Responding to public concern about Macau’s tap water safety in the wake of Hong Kong’s tainted water scare, the local government said on Wednesday that the lead levels in the water supplied to the city’s public housing estates meet World Health Organisation (WHO) standards. Government spokesman Victor Chan Chi Ping, Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) Director […]